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1) Either our Universe is much larger than we think or 2) much older or 3) both According to Einstein's gravitation (not very popular lately though) our universe is much older (actually it is eternal ) and the distance to the farthest point of its space (the other pole of 3-sphere universe) is abou...

I think people forget, we are all on the same team... There is a team #1 of those who write and sell books (the thicker the better so they better be stuffed with SF). A team #2 of those who buy those book and pay for SF not realizing that it is SF. A team #3 who knows it is SF so it doesn't buy tho...

... I find your stuff interesting even though I have only vague understanding of it .. you present it well, and it deserves more discussion here so that people like me might better understand it. Unfortnately the purpose of moderated fora is not that people like you might better understand anything...

if I read him correctly, he says the universe is not expanding But then what is in it new in relation to Einstein's theory in which the universe is not expanding neither, and the alleged accelerating expansion of space is due to the illusion casue by the action of the principle of conservation of e...

I wonder why Moffat doesn't like Einstein's theory of gravitation that seems not to have those problems that Moffat solves? Einstein's theory has already a non symmetric metric tensor (see Einstein's "On the Generalized Theory of Gravitation" , "Scientific American" , April 1950)...

See discussion at Asterisk Café: MOG. Thanks for directions, but none of the posts there answers my question wich is: "why John Moffat doesn't like Einstein's theory of gravitation that seems not to have those problems that JM tries to solve? Einstein's theory has already a non symmetric metri...

His book, which you should read before saying he is wrong, and MOG, says no singularities, so no Bang. I didn't say he was wrong, I just wanted to know, before bying his book, which particular theory of gravity was wrong according to him and needed reinventing (as there were a few of them out there...

Hi aristarchusinexile,

I just asked John Moffat which tree he's barking at (Einstein's of BB's) and let see what he says.

... your postings carry a lot more weight with me since I read 'Reinventing Gravity' (MOG) by John Moffat. Why Moffat thinks that gravity needs reinventing? The Big Bang's gravity has problems quantum mechanics, inflation, quasars, accelerating expansion, dark energy, and credibility. Einstein's gr...

aristarchusinexile wrote:Well I propose a wavy universe which is not flat, but wavey.

What do you propose for the cause of those waves?

The ''Matter'' that created that huge ''Bang'' in Japan, in 1945 was no more than a crisp Dollar Bill. Something i had to question and try to understand myself. How can all that energy come from such a small thing? There has to be a hidden source of energy. There are no hidden source. All this ener...

Try publishing your discenting opinions and see if they have merit I know that they have merit since Einstein already published them and none of them was falsified yet, just not understood. So it looks like progress in science is slow. My opinons that one has to look into Einstein's GR to slove mos...

Creationists opposed to science? The Word I read says, "science falsely so-called." My understanding is that the author recognized the existance of true science and false science. Hi, aristarchusinexile: Science is something that is "true" which means that if we apply it to the ...

The triangle represents my hope of visualizing the problem and solution, as we can consider 3D space and 4D space-time while only having to deal with a (perhaps distorted, but nonetheless visualizable) 2D triangle. I think you at least know where the boat is, but - about missing it - I'd have to be...

Both theories are stronger than ever. GR is basically accepted as fact by the entire community, and the BBT continues to gain acceptance as additional observations support it, and as the theories are fleshed out. But which GR, Einstein's or Wheeler's? In former the universe is stationary, in latter...

after all, not being a gravity theorist, he didn't likely feel he was missing a lot by skipping gravity conferences It might be his reason but I worry about creatinists getting into science through cosmology, since cosmology is not taken seriously enough not to allow calling "scientific" ...

Chris Peterson wrote:the pseudoscience tries to take over

According to Feynman it took over long time ago ...

I am not getting anything out of the meeting. I am learning nothing. Because there are no experiments this field is not an active one, so few of the best men are doing work in it. The result is that there are hosts of dopes here (126) and it is not good for my blood pressure: such inane things are ...

Time doesn't run one way. There is a symmetry in how particles move in time, some forwards and some backwards. Our perception of time moving in one direction is quite different from what happens at the quantum level. That's good. So when we are back in 1950 I ask Einstein why he didn't protest agai...

Now suppose that the universe is spherical space-time. The 4D space-time a photon travels through is curved positively. If a photon travels from point A to point B to point C and back to point A, [...] How do you imagine traveling back while "the arrow of time...etc."? :D The time is diff...

[...] you do profess an adherence to the fact that space curves. If that is so then how is it that you say that light bends? [...] Imagine yourself sitting in an accelerating vehicle and a straight light ray enters the vehicle perpendicularly to the direction of acceleration. You are then seeing th...

We show that, given current data, the probability that the Universe is spatially infinite lies between 67% and 98%, depending on the choice of priors. For the strongest prior choice, we find odds of order 50:1 (200:1) in favour of a flat Universe when compared with a closed (open) model. Harry, so ...

If you're unpublished, or they have some reason to doubt your veracity, you may need an endorser. Unfortunately all endorsers that I've ever managed to talk into endorsing my paper get cold feet when it turns out that I'm showing that Einstein's general relativity predicts that in "Einstein's ...

Because Halton Arp finally proved himself a first class whack job, and there was no hiding it anymore. I don't know what "a first class whack job" Arp did but I wouldn't mind you explaining it. AFAIK Arp was trying to demonstrated that some quasars are much closer to us than the Big Bang ...

Chris Peterson wrote:Astronomers are rarely ostracized for their ideas.

So why Halton Arp was consistently denied telescope time and had to move to Germany to be able to work in astronomy? Wasn't it for seeing things inconsistent with the expending universe? At least this is what he thinks. Is he wrong?