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'Big Wave' Theory Offers Alternative to Dark Energy
Space.com ^
| 8/18/09
| Clara Moskowitz
Posted on 08/19/2009 11:03:17 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: InterceptPoint
“There are really no “scientific truths”.” Is that true?
To: Nosterrex
“There are really no “scientific truths”.” Is that true?In absolute sense: NO. In the practical sense: YES. We design machines that can go to Mars and send back images with the science we have. But will the "Theory of Gravity" predict correctly the results of every experiment that it applies to? Who knows? We will never run every experiment so there is always going to be room to doubt any theory.
OTOH, have you seen any rocks falling up lately? Me neither so Newton had a pretty good theory despite the fact that it wasn't "true".
To: InterceptPoint
Actually I think I got that backwards but you get the idea.
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08/19/2009 3:47:05 PM PDT
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To: LibWhacker
Well, this makes more sense than the fudge factor of dark energy (and dark matter). However, I still hold that the truth is that G is NOT a perfect reciprocal with respect to distance, and instead has an inverse linear component.
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08/19/2009 4:36:55 PM PDT
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AFPhys
((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
To: LibWhacker
"It just seems like an unnatural correction to the equations - it's like a fudge factor," Temple told SPACE.com. "The equations don't make quite as much physical sense when you put it in. You just put it in to fit the data."
Mr Temple says this about dark matter. It also describes his theory though. What is the mechanism here? It sounds as though the authors are suggesting antigravity or merely regurgitating Einstein's Cosmological Constant and giving it a positive value. Nothing new there.
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08/19/2009 5:08:11 PM PDT
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allmost
To: LibWhacker
This big wave, initiated after the Big Bang that is thought to have sparked the universe, could explain why objects today appear to be farther away from us than they should be according to the Standard Model of cosmology. I dub this the "Big Fart".
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08/19/2009 6:35:35 PM PDT
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AndrewC
To: SunkenCiv
String theory is the basic answer to the question of whether anything actually stupider than evolution exists...
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