Starship Asterisk*

I fully appreciate the inertia. I don't have a reputation to protect so I can throw my nutty ideas out there for you all to ponder. ... It's always possible to toss out interesting sounding ideas in words. But if the idea remains only in the realm of words, it is nothing more than philosophy. In or...

I fully appreciate the inertia. I don't have a reputation to protect so I can throw my nutty ideas out there for you all to ponder. I'll leave you with this one for now: If the universe is made of dissipating energy, and the BB was just a drop to a lower quantum level of stability, then each success...

All correct ways of explaining things rely on evidence and theory to some extent. And if one way also forms a consensus within the scientific community, then it is embraced as mainstream science, which is what is discussed here on The Starship . Without consensus, thar be pseudoscience. Agreed. Als...

If you extrapolate the laws of electronics to three dimensions you end up with something that resembles a combination of relativity, quantum mechanics and string theory all rolled into one. As an expert in electronics as well as someone well trained in relativity and quantum mechanics, and with as ...

... you need to try to punch holes in a supported theory before constructing your own. That assertion assumes that there's only one correct way of explaining things. I'm not questioning the validity of any other theory. (Apologies for the title.) I'm just offering a view from a different 'frame of ...

What is a "vortex of collapsed space"? A 'rapidly' increasing gravitational field that pulls surrounding material in and gets it spinning in uniform motion. What is an "increasing gravitational field"? That would require an increasing mass somewhere, or a change in mass density....

What is a "vortex of collapsed space"? A 'rapidly' increasing gravitational field that pulls surrounding material in and gets it spinning in uniform motion. I fail to see the point of taking a simple explanation that is consistent with both theory and multiple lines of observational evide...

Is it possible that the space that contains spiral galaxies is actually rotating as a unit, generating its own gravity, which then holds everything in place like debris caught in a whirlpool? That might explain why the stars appear to be moving faster than they should be. That suggestion is not com...

Is it possible that the space that contains spiral galaxies is actually rotating as a unit, generating its own gravity, which then holds everything in place like debris caught in a whirlpool? That might explain why the stars appear to be moving faster than they should be.

I'm not entirely sure but I think my interest in astronomy may have started when I was lying in a crib staring at a bunch of strange objects suspended in geostationary orbit above me. Every time I tried to push one of them into a higher orbit it would come right back down at me, so naturally I assum...