Many of these things I did not know, but they all make sense. Thank you. If there is a problem with astronomy, it is that the theories are not easily subject to laboratory replication because the scale of size and time is too great, and we don’t have all the data to put into any given theory. For example, we don’t really know if the center of Hercules A is one massive black hole, or several black holes.
Scientists will try to come up with various means of trying to “fit” new data that becomes available into their existing favorite theory. To me, the prime example is “dark matter” and “dark energy.” I have a strong suspicion that those theories are being propounded to explain away inconvenient observations that are actually proving that some generally accepted theories of underlying universal constants are simply wrong.
“If there is a problem with astronomy, it is that the theories are not easily subject to laboratory replication because the scale of size and time is too great, and we don’t have all the data to put into any given theory.”
Yes, very much so. Gravity isn’t a readily scalable phenomenon, so we can’t make a “mini-galaxy” in the lab to observe the gravitational effects. Electromagnetism is scalable, so we can observe stuff like that Birkeland current animation I posted, in the laboratory, and the behavior should be the same if the plasma filaments were of cosmic size and much greater charge levels. We’d just have to account for the different gravitational effects that we can’t reproduce in the lab.
“I have a strong suspicion that those theories are being propounded to explain away inconvenient observations that are actually proving that some generally accepted theories of underlying universal constants are simply wrong.”
The dark matter and dark energy are necessary because the observations don’t match the predictions of a gravity-only model, but the scientists obstinately refuse to consider that any other force might be in play. One example is the rotation of galaxies. The outer arms should be rotating more slowly than the inner core, but instead they keep pace and the shape of the galaxy doesn’t get distorted. It’s obvious that something is accelerating the outer portion besides the gravity from the visible matter. So, scientists invent “invisible matter”, so they can keep gravity as the accelerator, instead of looking at another force as the missing accelerator. It’s willful blindness on their part, at this point.