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News Briefs 07-08-2008

It’s time to break our chains.

A toast of Tequila for Rick, Kat & Greg (Salud!)

Quote of the Day:

“Quite an experience, to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave.”

Replicant “Roy Batty” (Rutger Hauer) in ‘Blade Runner’

  1. I’d might as well grin, Red
    Beats crying!

    The best thing about dark matter is that it can be whatever you want it to be . . . it’s kind of like the imaginary playmate we all had as little kids, but this one gets billions of dollars of funding.

    While the mainstream wonders what’s going on with WIMPS (“So far, though many teams have been looking for WIMP particles, no one has conclusively detected them”), the heretics occasionally point out things like the appearance of fractal distribution to scales up to 100 light years across.

    The mainstream response to these observations is predictible: “Many cosmologists find fault with their analysis, largely because a fractal matter distribution out to such huge scales undermines the standard model of cosmology. According to the accepted story of cosmic evolution, there simply hasn’t been enough time since the big bang nearly 14 billion years ago for gravity to build up such large structures.”

    Got that everyone? – we don’t like it because it doesn’t fit our standard model!

    I would so love to be around in five hundred years, if for nothing more than to be the fly on the wall listening in on the astronomers of the future, openly laughing that our best and brightest cosmologists actually thought the weakest fundamental force (gravity) was responsible for galactic organization. We’re going to be looked upon in a similar light to the flat earth people are today.

    And that does make me grin!

    1. let us be honest
      To be honest, we have to see that dark matter and dark energy are accounting terms. They are not magic thingies. They are numbers that say how much the standard model is inaccurate, compared to current observations and measurements.

      I have my own guesses about this, why the standard model is wrong about these things. But these are only guesses, and I do not have a better model.

      I find it funny that the people who cannot even explain how things work here, in the local neighborhood, are now acting so superior.

      —-
      It is not how fast you go
      it is when you get there.

      1. Is that what they are?
        [quote=earthling]To be honest, we have to see that dark matter and dark energy are accounting terms. They are not magic thingies. They are numbers that say how much the standard model is inaccurate, compared to current observations and measurements.[/quote]

        If this is the case, then the standard model is off by 96%.

        That’s pretty close.

        My best guess (and that’s all that it is) is that we will someday learn that it is electric currents in plasma that drives the growth of the cosmos on massive scales. We’ll also learn that stars are not self-contained nuclear furnaces, but are also fueled by electrical currents, and thus have an entirely indeterminate life span. The entire cosmos will be seen as one giant interconnected circuit, with characteristics strongly reminiscent of a living organism: continually growing, probably in a fractal pattern, on ridiculous time scales.

        That’s my guess, but first we have to prove that dark matter and dark energy don’t exist, even though each is nothing more than a mathematical construct created to prop up the accepted standard model, and without which the standard model would be falsified.

        I’d bet serious dollars that the majority of the scientists who are engaged in chasing these ghosts are quite opposed to work like Dean Radin’s on the grounds that it’s . . . pseudoscience.

        1. percentage
          I’m not sure about the 96%, but even if the number is only 60%, this casts serious doubt on the underlying theory.

          Just the fact that the theory doesn’t work without dark energy is a big problem.

          My personal guess is that what we call “constants” are not constant. They may vary, depending on where you are and when it was. These constants could be a function of something we have not considered. The main suspect, to me, is the gravitational constant.

          But that is only a wild guess of course.

          —-
          It is not how fast you go
          it is when you get there.

  2. Fear is the Mind Killer.
    Thanks for the Bladerunner quote. Most of us are slaves, and I don’t count myself out of thee equation. But knowing does help to lighten the chains, and find the key…

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