Posted on 04/05/2007 2:27:39 PM PDT by TemplarAkolyte
Author - Alexander Mayer: This book is going to change the course of the 21st Century. Many old ideas (and inflated reputations) will die. Inevitably, some people will resist that. Science is about ideas that work. The only thing that matters in science is accurate predictions of empirical phenomena. Just read the book.
Partial Abstract: The concept of geometric cosmic time is introduced, which allows astrophysical observations to be interpreted without concluding that an unknown force is accelerating the expansion of the Universe. This relativistic temporal model yields a redshift-distance relationship based on simple geometric rules that involves no free parameters. Predictions are confronted with recent Type Ia supernovae and galaxy redshift survey observations. The discussion appeals to a broad technical audience in addition to topic experts.
(Excerpt) Read more at afmayer.net ...
Aha! It’s all very clear to me now. So that’s why the light doesn’t stay on when you close the refrigerator door.
Looks like an item that is deliberately obtuse. It is only shakey science that relies on such things. Until they can say it straight and say it true... go blow!
If I recall correctly, the sun is slowly expanding. Therefore we are being slowly cooked.
It sneaks into the garage and hides in your car trunk. Go look. You'll see I'm right.
Are you admitting thsat you don’t understand it, or that you don’t want to understand it?
pmub
Can you say, “String Theory?”
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Some years ago I took “The Elegant Universe” along with me on a brief vacation. Good thing, too, because it rained almost every day. The book, however, was fascinating! I read it, loved it and recommended it to others. But no matter how fascinating or, even, how elegant his String Theory was and is, I couldn’t figure out how the heck it could ever be tested, since all possible probes would be, by definition, enormously larger than the ‘string’ being probed. Perhaps, had it not been raining, I might have been more enlightened. Or, perhaps, not. :)
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