Posted on 08/19/2009 11:03:17 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Of course, this has been mine personal position for years. It’s finally nice to see the scientific community getting on board.
[mattdono darts eyes left and right]
mine = my
(I guess a joke is better when you *actually* TYPE CORRECTLY!)
Actually this is an intriguing idea - anything that gets rid of Dark Matter or Dark Energy in our model of the universe is a plus. So I kind of like it.
One man's coincidence is another's plan.
The more you know, the more you realize how little you know.
Atheists and Darwinians build their views on faith, not scientifically verifiable evidence. Dark energy and dark matter are leaps of faith, for there is no scientific evidence that these actually exist. Now we are to believe that what we thought that we were seeing and measuring were not real, but only illusions. There goes the whole theory of verificationism. It turns out that empiricalism is an illusion. Maybe Hume was right in that cause and effect are illusions, too. If so, then science is a religion based upon unverifiable faith.
(I do not understand a single word, but I know from previous articles that there are many in these parts who do.)
So dude,
The Milky Way is our surf board, and we’re just catching a wave?
Cool.
Gnarly, dude!
So now it’s goodbye to “dark energy.” Do we have to say goodbye to “dark matter” too? Or does that stay?
Question for cosmologists. The expanding wave is a wave of WHAT?
Don’t say “spacetime” because space is what you have when you remove all matter,
and time is assigning numbers to the motion of bodies, so “spacetime” does not refer to any reality.
I never did like the big bang + expanding universe + dark matter story. I like this one better, but in 50 years they will find that it too is not the answer.
Woww. Far out, man!
Ditto! I never bought into the imaginary dark matter an energy. That this new theory fits Einstein’s equations gives it a solid foundation.
Yes Dark Energy and Dark Matter are, at this point, leaps of faith. But the search continues and may bare fruit. Who knows. But it is the reason that I don't like DM an DE. But that would change if someone can put meat on the bones.
OTOH, the wave theory in no way destroys the scientific method. It makes predictions that are verifiable and it can be proven wrong by experiment. That satisfies the basic elements of a scientific theory. In fact it makes it superior to string "theory" which can do neither. Empiricism is not an illusion and this theory isn't going to make it so. Nice try but you are just dead wrong on this one.
So Dark Energy goes the way of aether?
I'd be happy if I could just say goodbye to Dark President. But not because of his color.
It isdefinitely time to do away with all that dark matter. My wife complains incessantly about it getting all over the carpet ever since it was theorized.
Soooooo does this mean you can only see the wave from the SHALLOW end of the pool?
You are just simply begging the question. There are really no "scientific truths". Science makes it's best guess, continues to look for holes in the basic assumptions and then proceeds to build fantastic gadgets based on the "unproven" or "unprovable" current theory. That's just the way science works. Ask Newton what he would think about Einstein's theories of gravity and motion. He would be surprised but not astonished.
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