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Hi Nico. Just out of curiousity whats with the fascination about the ether? You don't have objections to say relativity as well do you? It's very simple John, as EE :( I learned that light is an EM wave phenomenon (Maxwell). So when I later read that Einstein (following Michelson/Morley 1887) based...

2) If your ideas on "a universal dissipative medium" are published, in a relevant, peer-reviewed journal, you are welcome to let us know. Indeed, we will start a new thread specifically and exclusively for that paper, limiting discussion only to the scope of this Cafe (astronomy, astrophy...

If you had read this thread, as you said you would, you would have learned that promotion like this is unwelcome here. If you have references to pertinent published papers, by all means provide them. However, please do not use the Asterisk Cafe to promote non-scientific material. I'm sorry to have ...

...and back to my previous question - what about galaxies with no/negligible gas/plasma? How come they can be at high redshift? I was not aware of such case(s), and I would appreciate a reference describing them. By plasma cosmology concepts there just is no place without plasma (that is: outside s...

Nereid wrote: While this may be interesting, I'm sorry to say that it seems to have almost nothing to do with the specific question I asked you ("Perhaps you would care to explain how you consider that paper to be relevant to this thread, whose focus is the origins of the universe and observat...

Dear Nereid and cosmo_uk, Anomalous Quasar redshifts may arise due to the Wolf effect, involving a scattering medium - possibly the proposed intergalactic plasma. Please read the online paper "The Wolf effect and the Redshift of Quasars", at http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9807205v1 by D.Jam...

Dear Nereid, You wrote: "First and foremost, this is a scientific forum, devoted to astronomy (and astrophysics and cosmology). What does this mean? Among other things, it means we most certainly will entertain questions on astronomy (and astrophysics and cosmology), but we will not entertain p...

Dear Nereid, Reading D.Scott "The Electric Sky" [1] I became aware of the mountain of evidence against the BB hypothesis, and in favour of plasma cosmology. I was curious about the mainstream views on this matter, and the response I obtained here (circumventing a straight answer, combined ...

Dear cosmos_uk: In stead of replying to Arp's cogent objection (re Quasar Redshift) and my suggestion of an intrinsic redshift, I get an ad-hominëm attack from you. What a sad bag of arrogance ("I know it all") and ignorance ("I need not to look because I know it all") are you. I...

Hishadow wrote: "It does not matter if we as a layman are sold or not. It's all to easy to pull the "conspiracy card" as an explaination for the lack of interest from other scientist. If a theory doesn't fly, why should we (as layman) "demand anything" from scientists on how...