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To: InterceptPoint
I don't believe that I am wrong. The entire article deals with the basis of such theories concerning the expanding universe on hypotheses that have not proven to be true. Dark matter and dark energy are hypotheses that are driven by what astrophysicists have observed, namely, that the universe is not behaving as it should from their presuppositions or assumptions. It is similar to Einstein's coefficient which he “created” to make his equation fit. It doesn't add up, so we have to “create” something that makes our assumptions fit. The wave theory is well known, and it is a very useful model, but mathematics is a creation that is not bound to reality. You can prove things in mathematics that can't exist in the real world. The wave theory may turn out to explain what appears to be irrational behavior, but that at least to this date has not been proven. It is a matter of faith, an hypothesis, which is based upon the faith that current scientific presuppositions or ideologies are true.
18 posted on 08/19/2009 12:21:49 PM PDT by Nosterrex
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To: Nosterrex
It is a matter of faith, an hypothesis, which is based upon the faith that current scientific presuppositions or ideologies are true.

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.

20 posted on 08/19/2009 1:26:15 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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