Posted on 04/25/2019 7:37:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
Most of the folks in the dark matter world are pretty straight up with the fact that it’s basically fudge factor.
Do numbers involving the square root of 1 exist & do they reflect reality?
Thank you I will review this and study on it.
“Dark matter” is the Aether of our time...............
I don’t think math makes those kinds of predictions. There are certainly cases, though, where someone worked out certain kinds of mathematics as a theoretical exercise, and then we only later discovered real world applications that the math described.
As long as were aren’t being consumed by strangelets, I’m good.
I can think of many characterizations of physicists, but “humble” is not one of them. They will intellectually burn anyone at the stake who questions materialist dogma.
Discus and give examples.
Black holes are real. Maybe you missed the news from a couple weeks ago, but scientists have directly imaged one now.
I believe we’re at the equivalent of an end-of-geocentrism moment.
As accurate as Ptolemy’s epicycles may have been, they were not a correct physical description of the real world universe.
What is going on now, primarily, are the specification of the modern equivalent of epicycles in extraordinary - yet still incorrect - detail.
We have enormous evidence that the Big Bang cannot be true. It requires many absurdities to set up; it requires absurdities to maintain. It conflicts with what we can prove about quantum mechanics, and pushes its uncertainty into structureless phenomena that can’t be observed and thus cannot be falsified.
Today we have reached a point where 97% of the universe is said to be made of non-falsifiable stuff. This cries out for new explanations - explanations that will not be had by further pursuit of epicycles.
they imaged a plasmoid, discussed earlier in this thread
Strange to see this headline so close to a story about Stacey Abrams.
Perhaps Don Lemon can provide additional valuable insights on black holes.
That is my central argument - if the metaphysics is wrong, the physics derived from it will be wrong.
If the metaphysics says that lightning is caused by the gods being angry, you’re not going to end up with electricity.
[[The Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) digital camera on the Subaru]]
Awesome, I’m looking to buy a subaru for my next car
It’s an option, not standard equipment................
Subaru is the Japanese word for the Pleiades Constellation...........
ah crap- guess i’;ll have to save a little more money before my next purchase then, or just choose that instead of the gps navigator
Math is a structured “precise” terse way of thinking that allows models to be built of the physical world. The models are built using known physical facts and as well as assumptions (depends on the problem!). Its true you don’t need the physical world to build “models” (pure mathematics) but its often the motivator. Back to mathematics modeling the physical world, quite often in manipulating the equations (model) new possible “physical properties” which you can (hopefully) design an experiment to test, example neutrinos. Right now given our current level of knowledge & engineering capability we have situations particularly in cosmology where no experiment can be designed. So do we stop? Throw up our hands and say we give up! No because continued thinking building on past knowledge and “manipulation” as some put it will eventually (hopefully) to a way to do an experiment that might tie it all together. Even if the “manipulations” produce nothing in the near term except mathematics quite often that math finds uses in other fields. For example George Boole’s effort to model “thinking” produced Boolean Algebra, try doing a computer design without it!. Abstract algebra existed in many forms prior to computers but you need parts of it for compiler design. Consider Topology there’s a esoteric mathematics field - sub-discipline of it graph Theory useful for power engineering and anything where connecting things together subject to constraints is necessary. Even some String Theory ideas are finding useful application in theoretical materials science. I could go on!
Subaru has a really nice sports car...............
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