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It's just a question of being careful when using fuzzy words like "explosion". The term generally implies some sort of release of energy resulting in material expanding outwards. That does not describe the BB. Galaxies are flying apart because the space that contains them is expanding, an...

Hi aristarchusinexile excellent post...This bit was very interesting for me: what's important to me, and what I am confident of, are the expanding anti-gravity bubble voids pushing the stars and galaxies into their present and future shapes You may need to adjust the anti gravity bit... To, another...

Hello Loco, .. and, in fact, if, And, in fact, if........??? I can't find the quote you are quoting, Astro .. generally though, if in fact, if, to continue generally, knowledge is really not of critical importance in most applications except a few including the military and commercial mind. Grace i...

Should be quite a show!

harry wrote:G'day Mark

Darn I'm on Holdays in October.

Make the end of the world in November

or was that booked in for 2012

The world will be around for at least another 1,000 years, just not in its present state.

Even an uneducated ignoramus like me can easily know for sure for certain positively that there was a time before the theoretical Big Bang. Well, only an uneducated ignoramus would have that opinion, because it is far from certain scientifically. Ah, so you admit it is POSSIBLE scientifically there...

Serious heads on now ,,, Harry from oZZZZ said a sentence in a previous post which made me go looking.. And i found, what i think, what harry has been talking about. If its on the Net,, I will find it. You will need a comfy chair for this,, it goes on a bit. I will coment after everybody else ... I...

G'day from the land of ozzzzzzz Loco said Wait till they find the CMB is not 'echoes of a Big Bang' .. and, in fact, if, as some Big Bang fan posters here suggest, there was no Big Bang explosion, but a simultaneous coming into existance across a huge area, then why should the CMB be echoes of an e...

...then why should the CMB be echoes of an explosion? It isn't. The Big Bang theory doesn't describe an explosion in the first place. The Big Bang Theory does not describe an explosion in its present incarnation; but the popular original presentation was and for decades continued to be an explosion...

...not recorded anywhere, so the information didn't come down to us. Much information may have been well published, but libraries were and are, I am led to believe, often destroyed by conquering 'civilizations' who wanted to destroy the culture, heart, soul, intellect of the peoples conquered .. ma...

The illustration of the message is confused in structure. More simplicity is needed to reveal higher intelligence.

G'day from the land of ozzzzzzzzzz Sometimes the eye of the beholder is not science. And which beholder is to classify what is science? Answer .. the Power Structure of course .. and as power can and does often corrupt through vanity and error, the power structure should be abandoned in favour of f...

G'day Aris Topic quality is nice to have. How do you get it? Loco, answering for Aris, says: "Hit and miss, Harry. What 'quality' is, though, is like beauty: "in the eye of the beholder" perhaps, although there must be a universal constant, which might need revision as often as the C...

Maybe they live short lives, maybe they don't, that's all guesswork .. No, it's not guesswork at all, and your saying so just reveals (again) how little you actually understand about how science works. You're right, it's not guesswork: It's the earth is at the centre of the universe stuff. The eart...

Please remember these words your own when you speak of the theory of black holes as if Black Holes have been proven to exist. Nothing has been proven to exist. But the existence of black holes is about as well supported by observation as the existence of electrons. From a practical standpoint, both...

Hummingbirds make fighter pilots look like pansies [/size] This article was amended on Wednesday 10 June. The original headline was in violation of the Guardian's editorial code. This has been corrected: Hummingbirds outpace fighter pilots Hand to hand combat makes fighter pilots look like pansies ...

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/971110j.html Maybe they live short lives, maybe they don't, that's all guesswork .. and how long do they take to form? I think the age of the universe could easily be 10 times what the 13.7 estimate is. The consensus age has doubled in the past co...

I think the heading to this topic also needs to be revised? >>>>Agre<<<< of universe need revision again? <<The Active Geophysical Rocket Experiment (AGRE) is a joint Russian/USA project whose objective is to investigate the dynamics of a plasma jet in space and attendant phenomena in the magnetosp...

DavidLeodis wrote:It's good that we can have our own opinion. .

Your statement is refreshing, David. I hope a couple of the other participants here make a note of it.

----------------------------------------------- For its size, courting flier dives faster than a returning space shuttle By Susan Milius, July 4th, 2009; Science News, Vol.176 #1 (p. 7) ----------------------------------------------- 385 body lengths per second : Male hummingbird courting speed 207...

But exactly how do we maintain topic quality? 'Topic quality' and 'what is science' is purely at the discretion of the moderators, not of the participants. The moderators here are for the most part great folks (and I genuinely mean that truly) but bias is inherrent in each human. Therefore, elimina...

Chris Peterson wrote: Idle speculation of a philosophical nature is largely discouraged.

Please remember these words your own when you speak of the theory of black holes as if Black Holes have been proven to exist.

Did the explanation to the APOD really need a link ("boils") to a video on how to boil water! Were the links to information on castles and towers also necessary. The number of links in the explanation to APODs have increased a lot in recent months. I use them in case there is some astrono...

http://technology.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/News/ContentPosting?newsitemid=oldest-supernovae-universe236&feedname=CBC-TECH-SCIENCE-V3&show=False&number=0&showbyline=True&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc&date=True With 11 billion year old supernovae it seems to me that the estima...

Chris Peterson wrote:

THE PERFESSER wrote:GALILEO ?? EINSTEIN ??
BOTH WERE CONSIDERED MAVERICKs

Would someone please ban this jerk?

I don't think calling Galileo or Einstein jerks will win you friends, Chris .. or Brett or Bart for that matter.