Starship Asterisk*

Plasma cosmology has not been shown to explain the Universe - certainly not in any peer reviewed papers I have seen. I'm tired of discussion boards were members of the IEEE with subject envy bang on about it. Its funny how most of the crank emails I recieve are from phd engineers. Please tell me tha...

Oh well it must be aliens then

ball lightning?

So michael how does the iron sun theory explain the HR diagram?

ApJ, MNRAS, A&A or AJ otherwise the information is just rumour and hearsay:)

I think the bullet cluster is a much more convincing argument for DM

There's nothing wrong with gravitational lensing. The controversy stems from the details of how this particular piece of work was carried out

I'm no expert on lensing but I've heard some grumblings about this from people who are

MM said Monopoles Strings Inflation Dark Energy Dark Matter Magnetic Reconnection Black Holes I'm an observational cosmologist so I can give you my opinions on the above Monopoles - who cares Strings - probably barking up the wrong tree (thats for mathematicians to worry about) Inflation - no matter...

after looking at her homepage I'd have to agree with you crater

http://www.artofkaren.blogspot.com/

I like the one of torvill and dean ice dancing on a frozen planet!!!

I don't like the purple, but hey!

how about a separate section of the forum for "against the mainstream" as they do on bad astronomy - that way as soon as the discussion becomes cranky it can be moved there.

citing galileo or copernicus is always the calling card of the crank (as is copyrighting their material)

It seems that they believe they are right simply because they are unpopular

this is not proof of a theory

you can also use "standard candles" - this is a class of object that has a known luminosity therefore any differences in said luminosity between 2 such objects will be down to distance. (its a little more complicated than this but you get the idea) eg large cluster elliptical galaxies were...

A crank called David de Hilster who is a follower of autodynamics (anti relativity cult) has made his own version of wikipedia specifically for people who have non mainstream ideas on cosmology/physics and science in general check it out - http://www.newiki.org As far as I can tell new users will ge...

I'll leave the first part on extra dimensions to someone who may know something about them with regard to the second part I think your getting a bit confused by time in the absolute sense, time in the GR/SR sense and a beings mental perception of time. "light speed" and a "light year&...

Hello paynesmanor Lots of questions - I'll answer this first one. Has the sky changed since we first started taking photos of it. I suppose the short answer is yes but not by much in terms of the grand scheme of things. Firstly there are "nearby" stars in our galaxy that are close enough t...

http://kokogiak.com/solarsystembodiesla ... miles.html

This image is fantastic check it out!

Asterisk attitude is keeping many cosmologists away from this forum. Can someone explain to me why? How would you know - you don't know any cosmologists. I would be more inclined to think that it is your constant repitition of the same old "Einstein was wrong", "BBT is wrong", &...

none of those people are cosmologists - Arp is the only one in the correct field - the rest at instituions are all losers from the iEEE who get upset that their field is never the subject of a TV documentary and the independent researchers are all alien abductees


Harry - try again please

For one thing stars are not made at the same time. You lack info on star formation. The more I read your comments the more I feal,you know very lttle. Oh dear harry it seems it is you who knows very little about star formation in cluster ellipticals some of the most cosmologically important objects...

multi trillions of stars

Harry do you know the difference between a globular cluster and a galaxy cluster?

I suggest you go and read up on them both before you start an argument with researchers in those fields.

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I estimate by the end of next year.

The Big Bang will be known as the crank pot theory of the last 80 years.

I will bet you all the money I can get my hands on that you're wrong

(or a playstation 3 - I'd quite like one)

I specialise in galaxy clusters, loving the word gluster I might see if I can get away with putting it in my next paper! In fact the most distant fully formed virialised galaxy clusters are now being found at z~1.4. So they can form in 4.4Gyr! Dark matter simulations can however cope with these form...

They mean that the pillars are 1000 years old at the epoch we observe them - so 1500 years ago when the photons we observe left the pillars they were 1000 years old.