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Arising_uk wrote:
SpheresOfBalance wrote:(<-YOU'RE A FEMALE)
Why? Because this emoticon is the closest I can find to expressing exasperation at stupidity? What does your purple make you?
See next point down.
(<-OR YOU'RE GAY, EITHER WAY.)
See above. Either way its nice to see your misogynistic and homophobic attitudes colourfully on display.
Only in your mind, I have always KNOWN that females are more 'inclined' to use emoticons, to express their 'emotions' and plenty of them, as naturally they are the more emotional human, it's a fact. And no homophobia here either, I just know that this crap pisses you off, for what ever reason, and I like it!
NO, YOU DIP SHIT, I'M TALKING OF THIS CRAP. THIS IS ONE OF THE LIES, AS YOU CANNOT POSSIBLY KNOW MY REASONS, YOU DAMNED MORON. HOW DENSE ARE YOU ANYWAY? SERIOUSLY? YOU'RE EITHER ONE DUMB SON OF A BITCH, OR INSANE, TO THINK YOU CAN KNOW ONES REASONS FOR SHUTTING YOUR QUERY DOWN. THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT THEM TO BE, SO YOUR LITTLE STUPID QUOTE FITS YOUR BILL. OR I SHOULD SAY THAT BELIEF IN YOUR STUPID LITTLE QUOTE, IS WHY YOU BELIEVE YOU CAN READ MINDS. GOD YOU ARE DENSE AND/OR NUTS. I'M NEVER AT A LOSS FOR THOUGHT, NEVER, I JUST SWITCH GEARS BECAUSE OF SOME ABSURD THING YOU'VE SAID, AND REFUSE TO ANSWER WHAT'S BEING TALKED ABOUT, BECAUSE THEN I DON'T HAVE THE TIME OR INCLINATION, FOOL. THERE'S NO WAY SOMEONE AS SCREWED UP AS YOU WILL EVER GET ME. I'M WAY TOO COMPLICATED FOR YOUR CONFUSED MIND. YOU THINK THAT WORD CHOICE, AND GRAMMAR ARE INDICATIVE OF WHATS IN MY MIND, WRONG ANSWER. I HAVEN'T REALLY READ OR WRITTEN ANYTHING SINCE THE DAYS OF MY COLLEGE, WHICH HAS NO BEARING ON ONES THINKING, IT JUST MAKES ONE SEVERELY OUT OUT OF PRACTICE, AS TO THE WRITTEN WORD. AN ILLUSION FOR YOU TO STUMBLE UPON.
And yet with your every utterance about me you contradict your own words?
Ditto fool! and that's the beauty!

Save your paranoia and insecurities for your shrink. Me, I'm just having a chat.
Self projection?
THROUGH WITH ANYTHING YOU AIM AT ME. ANYONE IN THAT HEAD OF YOURS?, OR SHOULD I ASK HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE IN THAT HEAD OF YOURS? AS YOU ONLY LIE AS TO WHAT YOU SAY YOU BELIEVE ONES WORDS MEAN AS A RESULT OF THAT ASININE QUOTE OF OURS. THAT QUOTE IS SOMETHING YOU EITHER MADE UP OR BOUGHT INTO PURELY SO YOU CAN PROJECT BS AT PEOPLE FOR THE SAKE OF APPEASING YOUR EGO, AND THAT OF ARGUMENT FOR ANY DAMN SILLY REASON YOUR TWISTED MIND CAN MUSTER. THIS BELIEF OF YOURS, ALLOWS YOU TO ARGUE WITH YOURSELF. ARE YOU KIDDING ME, THINK ABOUT IT.

YOU ARE THE ONE THAT TRY'S TO PUT WORDS INTO MY MOUTH THAT I HAVEN'T EVEN SAID, WHICH IS KIND OF LOCO, WHILE IT'S BEEN ME THAT ONLY COMMENTS ON THE MEANING OF YOUR WORDS, AS YOU USE THEM.

I SAY THAT THE MEANING OF WORDS ARE ONLY EVER 'NECESSARILY' IN THE MIND OF THE ONE THAT SPEAKS THOSE WORDS.
WHILE YOU SAY THAT THE MEANING OF ONES WORDS IS IN THE RESPONSE THEY GET.
OR IN OTHER WORDS, 'THAT ONES MEANING IS ONLY EVER IN THE MIND OF THOSE LISTENING.'
LISTEN TO YOURSELF, YOU'RE A FUCKING LOON, WHICH IS PROBABLY WHY YOU'RE SO QUICK TO LABEL OTHERS AS ONE. THAT QUOTE WAS BORN OF A SELFISH LUNATIC, OR ONE THAT DIDN'T THINK IT THROUGH.
But I have thought about it long and hard and its why my thought is more nuanced than the understanding you have of what my quote means. As I make a distinction between thoughting and thinking and their relationship to meaning and language. So a thought is the ability to reuse, mainly due to memory, the representations that our senses give us, its the ability to combine or juxtapose, images, smells, 'feelings'(essentially touch) and sounds into new combinations devoid from their original cause, essentially the old British Empiricists and Descartes idea of clear and distinct ideas based upon sensation. Thinking, is the use of a preferred representation to 'thought' with and, in the main, its sound in the form of language, i.e. most think by 'hearing' themselves speak in their head, but some prefer images or feelings to do this, either way the result is that the same issues that apply to language communication apply to this way of thinking, i.e. that there is no inherent objective meaning in words, they are arbitrarily chosen signs to represent our thoughts. As such there is no necessary connection between the meaning we intend when we use them and the meaning that is constructed from them by the listener therefore when communicating our meaning its an ongoing process of feedback until agreement is met that at the least both understand what the issue is. So I agree that the meaning of ones thoughts is ones own, its that when one uses language to represent them then its thinking and this involves the meaning that necessarily involves two not one. This also raises another issue and thats that people commonly forget or don't understand that meaning in language is constructed this way and as such when they think to themselves they think they are actually having a thought, and whilst I admit that they are in the sense that the words invoke images, sounds, etc, I think there is a danger in assuming that ones actually thought the matter out. To do this one should then attempt to construct a thought about the meaning to check if the words fit.

And so you've made up words in order to create this fantasy, of yours. The problem with your quote is that it's a victim of itself. You or someone has tried to reduce all the above into those few words, as if they can convey such an idea, and they don't It'll only ever be an inside meaning. Those few words can never contain such that you have attributed, and one does such so as to pat oneself on the back, to make them vague so as not to actually convey, such that one can feel superior, through exclusive understanding. Otherwise if one truly cared to actually convey, they'd ensure that meaning was apparent. That is the purpose of words, contrary to at least your belief, to convey ideas, such that one can understand. The words that you or someone has chosen, do not mean anything of the sort, actually they mean something quite different, and seem to feed this need of yours to be PNF's thought police, they are in fact born of selfish intentions, of that, there is no doubt. I have been in the habit to use small words, and many of them, so as to ensure I can convey. For me it is more important to ensure someone understands my meaning, than to think myself clever in creating a cryptic phrase that requires being in the know, then using it to mislead, the resultant, the feeling of superiority, but it's an illusion. There is a very big difference between these two types of people. One cares for others more readily and the other only cares for themselves, always searching for a pat on the back, to such an extent that they ensure it, through such ambiguousness, as they seek to be asked to explain, and in this need of the other seeking clarification, they fool themselves into believing their constructed superiority, is real. There has never been anything said on this forum, that I've seen, that I could not understand. As a matter of fact the reading comprehension part of my entrance exam to college was the highest of all the English section. Because of the plethora of technical manuals I had to read during my 16 years with the US DOD. When I went to college, I was an older student, the oldest in all my classes, in my 30's.

Its because of these thoughts and thinks that I think you must spend a lot of time in confrontation with others when you speak.
Just people like you.
YOU'RE A WHACK JOB, SWEETIE.

AND NO, YOU REQUIRE CAPS SO YOU'LL FINALLY GET IT. HOPEFULLY. I'M NOT GOING TO CONTINUE TO TRY AND BEAT THIS INFO INTO YOUR PEA SIZED BRAIN. YOU KEEP THIS SILLY GIRLY CRAP UP AND I'LL IGNORE YOUR SILLINESS, INSTEAD VYING FOR A BLANKET STATEMENT, AS TO YOUR ABSURDITY. WHILE THE COMMUNICATION BIT WAS GOOD, IT'S SURELY NOT REFLECTED IN THAT QUOTE OF YOURS. IT WOULD SEEM YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND YOUR OWN EDUCATION, AS YOU SPIT OUT SUCH STUPID QUOTES.
On the whole most of the above is you talking to yourself. I could care less about the format you use as to me as it just displays, to me, your emotional instability. That and your gender misogyny and that you appear to have no free-will as this is the third time you've made such statements. That you don't understand the quote is your loss and no skin of my nose, it also explains to me why, I guess, you often fall into rancour with your interlocutors.
You're rationalizing sweetheart, But I expect nothing less from one that coins or references a phrase such as: 'the meaning of ones words is the response they get,' As if you take them at face value, which is the way any words should be taken, they convey the selfishness, and arrogance of their user, because at face value, they are false, and actually somewhat megalomaniacal.

During the composition of this message, I noted that Godfree appealed to both of us to cease our bickering, out of respect, something you seemingly know little about, I'll refrain from responding to any future messages you may post that does not contain on topic material.

Sorry Godfree!
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SpheresOfBalance wrote:
Arising_uk wrote:
SpheresOfBalance wrote:(<-YOU'RE A FEMALE)
Why? Because this emoticon is the closest I can find to expressing exasperation at stupidity? What does your purple make you?
See next point down.
(<-OR YOU'RE GAY, EITHER WAY.)
See above. Either way its nice to see your misogynistic and homophobic attitudes colourfully on display.

Sorry Godfree!
I'm sure you can see my point , I think it's a waste of your intellects and beneath both of you ,
So a little puzzle for you ,
when thinking about the dopler effect and sound waves ,
sound waves vary depending on the medium they are traveling through , or their speed does ,
the comparison between air and a solid like metal is about 15 times faster ,
sound waves are a variable ,
nutrino's travel at the same speed , regardless of the medium ,
I havn't googled it but I presume light travels at the same speed through water as it does air?
so their not the same , what we experience in air with sound ,
is not a parallel with how light behaves ,
so how is this used to explain the red shift ,,??
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Godfree wrote:I havn't googled it but I presume light travels at the same speed through water as it does air?
It actually doesn't. Just like sound, the speed of light varies according to the medium. I think the speed of light through water is about 3/4 what it is in air. What physicists mean by the speed of light being constant is that, in a vacuum, with nothing to disturb it, light will travel at 186 000 miles per second forever and that nothing can go faster than that.
Godfree wrote:so their not the same , what we experience in air with sound ,
is not a parallel with how light behaves ,
so how is this used to explain the red shift ,,??
What we experience, what we hear or see, depends on the frequency of waves, rather than their speed. So, for instance, when a guitar string is plucked, it vibrates back and forwards, colliding with air molecules, which in turn collide with others creating waves in the air. They then hit our ear drum as frequently as the string goes back and forward, and we hear a particular note. If we place a finger on a fret, the length of the vibrating string is shortened, it vibrates faster, the frequency of the wave increases and we hear a higher note.
With light the frequency of the waves (or photons) is determined by electrons jumping between orbits around atoms. In effect, they are vibrating like guitar strings, it so happens that a higher frequency of light waves/photons causes a sensation of blue in us and a lower frequency red.
When a fire engine is racing towards us, it might be travelling at 10% of the speed of sound. After it has gone dee, by the time it goes dah, the fire engine is appreciably closer, the dah wave doesn't have so far to go, so the frequency of the waves increases. Conversely, as the fire engine passes and move away, the dahs have further to go, it will take longer and the frequency of the waves decreases. Exactly the same happens with light, but 70mph is such a piffling fraction of the speed of light that you need to be superhumanly sensitive to colour to notice the fire engine turn any redder.
Distant galaxies appear redder than near ones, there is a fully understood mechanism that could explain it. Most physicists believe it does.
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tillingborn wrote:What physicists mean by the speed of light being constant is that, in a vacuum, with nothing to disturb it, light will travel at 186 000 miles per second forever and that nothing can go faster than that.
Re: "...nothing can go faster than that" is reliant upon the hu'man capability of our sense of seeing. The fastest hu'man capability is that of imagination which can take us, literally, anywhere far faster than the actual eye can perceive... despite the fact the even the imagination is "seen" but without the limits of the eyeball.
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tillingborn wrote:
Godfree wrote:I havn't googled it but I presume light travels at the same speed through water as it does air?
It actually doesn't. Just like sound, the speed of light varies according to the medium. I think the speed of light through water is about 3/4 what it is in air. What physicists mean by the speed of light being constant is that, in a vacuum, with nothing to disturb it, light will travel at 186 000 miles per second forever and that nothing can go faster than that.
Godfree wrote:so their not the same , what we experience in air with sound ,
is not a parallel with how light behaves ,
so how is this used to explain the red shift ,,??
What we experience, what we hear or see, depends on the frequency of waves, rather than their speed. So, for instance, when a guitar string is plucked, it vibrates back and forwards, colliding with air molecules, which in turn collide with others creating waves in the air. They then hit our ear drum as frequently as the string goes back and forward, and we hear a particular note. If we place a finger on a fret, the length of the vibrating string is shortened, it vibrates faster, the frequency of the wave increases and we hear a higher note.
With light the frequency of the waves (or photons) is determined by electrons jumping between orbits around atoms. In effect, they are vibrating like guitar strings, it so happens that a higher frequency of light waves/photons causes a sensation of blue in us and a lower frequency red.
When a fire engine is racing towards us, it might be travelling at 10% of the speed of sound. After it has gone dee, by the time it goes dah, the fire engine is appreciably closer, the dah wave doesn't have so far to go, so the frequency of the waves increases. Conversely, as the fire engine passes and move away, the dahs have further to go, it will take longer and the frequency of the waves decreases. Exactly the same happens with light, but 70mph is such a piffling fraction of the speed of light that you need to be superhumanly sensitive to colour to notice the fire engine turn any redder.
Distant galaxies appear redder than near ones, there is a fully understood mechanism that could explain it. Most physicists believe it does.
Have they done experiments that prove the red shift here on earth , using light ,,!!
if not why not? , now you say light behaves differently in water ,
nutrino's don't , they pass through the earth at the same rate , correct me if I'm wrong ,
I get the theory , I understand the mechanics of how the dopler shift is achieved ,
I'm a guitarist and what I'm getting at on this one is light and sound are not the same ,
without a medium , we don't hear sound , can light travel through a vacume ,?
and what about xrays and other parts of the light spectrum , are these less effected by the medium ,? ,
with sound there are gaps inbetween the pulses , are there gaps inbetween the light ,
we have ac and dc is light dc , is it a constant glow , the sun is not blinking on and off at 50khz ,
we humans perceive part of the spectrum as visible light , but lots more exists ,
we perceive a shift in pitch , and draw conclusions ,
but I think a lot more exists , and we are a long way from getting the view of the universe ,
the correct one ,
I do not believe the universe is expanding , finite , or 13.7 billion years old ,
there is another explanation other than that offered by the main stream ,
and it is people like me who refuse to accept something that makes no sense ,
who will keep pushing till we get it right .
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tillingborn wrote:
Godfree wrote:I havn't googled it but I presume light travels at the same speed through water as it does air?
It actually doesn't. Just like sound, the speed of light varies according to the medium. I think the speed of light through water is about 3/4 what it is in air. What physicists mean by the speed of light being constant is that, in a vacuum, with nothing to disturb it, light will travel at 186 000 miles per second forever and that nothing can go faster than that.

Well you see there is one big difference , sound doesn't travel in a vacuum .!!!
nutrino's do go faster than light ,
which does not go on forever ,
I know we are just splitting hairs and we both seem to know the basics fairly well ,
but despite that we can be seeing a very different world ,
I think you are much more trusting than myself , maybe a bit younger ,??
not been fed a pile of spin long enough yet to realize we are swimming in it ,
and try and remember where and when the bbt was launched ,
in america , war time america when the arms race spin race was alive and well ,,!!!
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The universe is but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets it's hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

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Godfree wrote:
tillingborn wrote:
Godfree wrote:I havn't googled it but I presume light travels at the same speed through water as it does air?
It actually doesn't. Just like sound, the speed of light varies according to the medium.
False.. your thinking compression waves in water and likewise in atmosphere.
light moves at 299 792 458 m / s.
THERE IS NO OTHER SPEED IT CAN MOVE.
unless you change the right side [per second]

thats the part i love to think about . time dilation and the SoL.
Does the SoL change in a time dilated starship?
No

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Hjarloprillar wrote:False.. your thinking compression waves in water and likewise in atmosphere.
light moves at 299 792 458 m / s.
THERE IS NO OTHER SPEED IT CAN MOVE.
Light doesn't even travel at the speed of light in air. You clearly haven't heard of refraction.
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Godfree wrote:Well you see there is one big difference , sound doesn't travel in a vacuum .!!!
True. What difference does it make?
Godfree wrote:nutrino's do go faster than light ,
If you are talking about the OPERA experiment, the consensus is that they cocked it up and the speed of light is still the maximum.
Godfree wrote:which does not go on forever ,
The evidence you give for this is the same red-shift that other people claim as evidence for cosmic expansion. There is a well studied and verified mechanism in support of expansion, there is no equivalent for the tired photon hypothesis.
Godfree wrote:I know we are just splitting hairs and we both seem to know the basics fairly well ,
but despite that we can be seeing a very different world ,
I think you are much more trusting than myself , maybe a bit younger ,??
not been fed a pile of spin long enough yet to realize we are swimming in it ,
Well, being 50, I suppose my naivety might be due to my youth.
Godfree wrote:and try and remember where and when the bbt was launched ,
in america , war time america when the arms race spin race was alive and well ,,!!!
I'm fairly certain that I have already mentioned that my understanding is that Big Bang Theory was launched by the Belgian priest Georges Lemaitre in the 1930's as the Cosmic Egg. Fred Hoyle pooh-poohed the idea, calling it the Big Bang, offering the Steady State theory as an alternative. That was taken seriously until the mid-sixties when Penzias and the other bloke whose name still escapes me, discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation.
It is possible that the Big Bang theory is a creationist conspiracy, but I think we would struggle to make computers and satellites work if it were all based on a lie. It also seems inconceivable that rival ideologies could not produce better results with theories based on a more accurate picture of reality.
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tillingborn wrote:
Godfree wrote:Well you see there is one big difference , sound doesn't travel in a vacuum .!!!
True. What difference does it make?
Godfree wrote:nutrino's do go faster than light ,
If you are talking about the OPERA experiment, the consensus is that they cocked it up and the speed of light is still the maximum.
Godfree wrote:which does not go on forever ,
The evidence you give for this is the same red-shift that other people claim as evidence for cosmic expansion. There is a well studied and verified mechanism in support of expansion, there is no equivalent for the tired photon hypothesis.
Godfree wrote:I know we are just splitting hairs and we both seem to know the basics fairly well ,
but despite that we can be seeing a very different world ,
I think you are much more trusting than myself , maybe a bit younger ,??
not been fed a pile of spin long enough yet to realize we are swimming in it ,
Well, being 50, I suppose my naivety might be due to my youth.
Godfree wrote:and try and remember where and when the bbt was launched ,
in america , war time america when the arms race spin race was alive and well ,,!!!
I'm fairly certain that I have already mentioned that my understanding is that Big Bang Theory was launched by the Belgian priest Georges Lemaitre in the 1930's as the Cosmic Egg. Fred Hoyle pooh-poohed the idea, calling it the Big Bang, offering the Steady State theory as an alternative. That was taken seriously until the mid-sixties when Penzias and the other bloke whose name still escapes me, discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation.
It is possible that the Big Bang theory is a creationist conspiracy, but I think we would struggle to make computers and satellites work if it were all based on a lie. It also seems inconceivable that rival ideologies could not produce better results with theories based on a more accurate picture of reality.
I don't buy the background radiation, being anything more than from current and past stars. It has nothing to do with a bang, other than its where the stars supposedly come from. How could is possibly be differentiated, where's the experimental control? Electromagnetic Radiation is either reflected, scattered, absorbed, refracted, or emitted, It does not just hang around static for 13 billion years, waiting for some clowns at bell labs to find it. I think they may have been better at sweeping bird poo, than anything else.
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It actually doesn't. Just like sound, the speed of light varies according to the medium. [/quote]

False.. your thinking compression waves in water and likewise in atmosphere.
light moves at 299 792 458 m / s.
THERE IS NO OTHER SPEED IT CAN MOVE.
unless you change the right side [per second]

thats the part i love to think about . time dilation and the SoL.
Does the SoL change in a time dilated starship?
No

Prill[/quote]

Thats what I tried to allude to with my starting statement on the subject,
that light does not vary it's speed , a train does not have a headlight shooting a beam out at the speed of light ,
plus the speed of the train , they concluded that you can't ad or subtract speed from the speed of light ,
that it will remain a constant ,
But heres my puzzle for you Prill , since this is more your territory ,
The Soul , it has been said by many trying to marry science and superstition ,
that a soul has weight , and at death the body losses so many grammes of weight ,
supposedly the soul leaving the body ,???
is that what you believe , are you familiar with the claim ,?
so heres the question ,
If a soul has weight , it aint got wings , what stopping gravity from sucking your soul down into the fiery hot furnace that is the center of the earth ,, sound a bit like hell ,,??
if a soul has weight /a mass , then gravity is going to get a hold of it and it's got no propulsion mechanism it doesn't have an engine to fly against the pull of gravity with ,
so it;s heading for the center , hot stuff eh ..??
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I don't buy the background radiation, being anything more than from current and past stars. It has nothing to do with a bang, other than its where the stars supposedly come from. How could is possibly be differentiated, where's the experimental control? Electromagnetic Radiation is either reflected, scattered, absorbed, refracted, or emitted, It does not just hang around static for 13 billion years, waiting for some clowns at bell labs to find it. I think they may have been better at sweeping bird poo, than anything else.[/quote]

I agree , the most ridiculous statement I heard about the CBR was
we see it whatever direction we look , it's all around us the same image ,???
thats pathetic , if it was real and the image of the early universe ,
it would be in one spot , you would have to look in the right direction ,
the fact that the image can be generated pointing your telescope anywhere you like ,
makes it obvious that the effect is something else entirely,
once again wishful thinking presuming the punters can't tell the difference,
and sadly they are correct in their assumption ,
the punters or most of them it would seem can;t tell the difference ,
between a pile of spin to fit the existing fantasy ,
and reality ,
Question oh wise one,
why are galaxies like a bubble , a fairly abrupt end to the matter ,
not slowly less and less material that one might expect to see if it were coming in from outside ,
no more bubble like with a round shape and each is separate ,
like the shape you would expect if the galaxy went bang ,
and the matter was held in the bubble by the gravity of the black hole ,
isn't that the image we see , something that looks like the matter all came from the black hole ,
popped out until the gravity stopped it's progress ,
if galaxies were formed by some big bang and the material gravitated into galaxies ,
then there would be less clear separation and no big voids inbetween ,
I think the proof galaxies go bang is in their shape ,
and the Crab Nebula , may be the result of a galaxy going bang , not a supernova ,
not a single sun producing then millions of suns,?? that doesn't make sense ,
a galaxy going bang would then be making millions of new stars ,,!!!
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Godfree wrote:and try and remember where and when the bbt was launched ,
in america , war time america when the arms race spin race was alive and well ,,!!!
I'm fairly certain that I have already mentioned that my understanding is that Big Bang Theory was launched by the Belgian priest Georges Lemaitre in the 1930's as the Cosmic Egg. Fred Hoyle pooh-poohed the idea, calling it the Big Bang, offering the Steady State theory as an alternative. That was taken seriously until the mid-sixties when Penzias and the other bloke whose name still escapes me, discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation.
It is possible that the Big Bang theory is a creationist conspiracy, but I think we would struggle to make computers and satellites work if it were all based on a lie. It also seems inconceivable that rival ideologies could not produce better results with theories based on a more accurate picture of reality.[/quote]
I don't buy the background radiation, being anything more than from current and past stars. It has nothing to do with a bang, other than its where the stars supposedly come from. How could is possibly be differentiated, where's the experimental control? Electromagnetic Radiation is either reflected, scattered, absorbed, refracted, or emitted, It does not just hang around static for 13 billion years, waiting for some clowns at bell labs to find it. I think they may have been better at sweeping bird poo, than anything else.[/quote]

There are many ways to try and make sense of all the knowledge we have on the subject ,
and it is easy to get bogged down in the detail , and lose sight of the bigger picture ,
so heres how I start creating my image of the universe ,
Logic tells me the universe is infinite in size and age ,
the same logic tells me a infinite universe does not go bang ,
imagine the universe is a big net and you are pulling gathering in the net to create a "point of singularity"
how long do you think you will have to pull before the net stops coming ,,??
so you see it is impossible for a infinite universe to become a point of singularity ,
I can easily dismiss the bbt as being illogical nonsense ..!!!
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Godfree wrote:
SpheresOfBalance wrote:I don't buy the background radiation, being anything more than from current and past stars. It has nothing to do with a bang, other than its where the stars supposedly come from. How could is possibly be differentiated, where's the experimental control? Electromagnetic Radiation is either reflected, scattered, absorbed, refracted, or emitted, It does not just hang around static for 13 billion years, waiting for some clowns at bell labs to find it. I think they may have been better at sweeping bird poo, than anything else.
I agree , the most ridiculous statement I heard about the CBR was
we see it whatever direction we look , it's all around us the same image ,???
thats pathetic , if it was real and the image of the early universe ,
it would be in one spot , you would have to look in the right direction ,
the fact that the image can be generated pointing your telescope anywhere you like ,
makes it obvious that the effect is something else entirely,
once again wishful thinking presuming the punters can't tell the difference,
and sadly they are correct in their assumption ,
the punters or most of them it would seem can;t tell the difference ,
between a pile of spin to fit the existing fantasy ,
and reality ,
Question oh wise one,
why are galaxies like a bubble , a fairly abrupt end to the matter ,
not slowly less and less material that one might expect to see if it were coming in from outside ,
no more bubble like with a round shape and each is separate ,
like the shape you would expect if the galaxy went bang ,
and the matter was held in the bubble by the gravity of the black hole ,
isn't that the image we see , something that looks like the matter all came from the black hole ,
popped out until the gravity stopped it's progress ,
if galaxies were formed by some big bang and the material gravitated into galaxies ,
then there would be less clear separation and no big voids inbetween ,
I think the proof galaxies go bang is in their shape ,
and the Crab Nebula , may be the result of a galaxy going bang , not a supernova ,
not a single sun producing then millions of suns,?? that doesn't make sense ,
a galaxy going bang would then be making millions of new stars ,,!!!
As to the sarcasm of "oh wise one," I hope it was not directed at me, as "I'm just a clown in the eyes of the world" - lyrics from a song titled "In the Eyes of the World" by "The Flower Kings" off the album "Stardust We Are" (disc1). ;-)

But I will try and provide something for you to chew on. How big is big and how small is small. Is there a maximum size that stars can be, and what if at that size the core goes critical really fast, which is the theory, while much more H2 is in the vicinity, such that after it collapses into a black hole, with all that gravitational pull, and we know they can spin, like a pulsar/neutron star, which are also remnants of a super-duper-nova. i mean, I can see that it's a possibility. Bang/nova whats the difference? Novas go bang, that's for sure, though one may never hear it. You know that's a good question, why "Big Bang" as bang conjures up the notion of sound, the gun went bang, not in the vacuum of space it doesn't. I would have called it "the initial explosion," straight to the point.

So is it something in space that limits the size of stars, (Dark something), or the size of it's constituents, atoms. Why are there stars of varying size in any particular pillar of creation, that has more H2 than is used in any particular star? Proximity alone? I've wondered why things seem to coalesce around any particular point, such that I wonder if there is some very small amount, of some element unknown to man, that is the densest by far, that pulls all the H2 together, then once the pressure exceeds a certain point, bang, ignition! Or the question could be, how concentrated (dense) does a certain area of H2 got to be that it attracts all the rest of the H2? And is that all there is to it?
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