Comments on: New Views of the Universe

By: Science

Science — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:20:30 +0000

Sean – I don’t have a ‘theory’ (see my page, it isn’t ‘my’ theory but a compilation of many people’s work). Second it is entirely fact. It is possible to make predictions without speculation. Don’t lump real scientists with stringers by refering to ‘theory’ if you use the same term for untestable guesses. Thanks

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:41:05 +0000

“Rubbing tweed”? Is that what the kids are calling it these days? *LOL*

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 02:46:18 +0000

Thanks Julianne – great stuff! It somehow fits my sense of humor perfectly. Nice meeting you in Chicago – hope we can repeat again before too long.

By: Julianne

Julianne — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:53:03 +0000

Hi Mark! I believe that by "slides in which puppets were doing twisted things", you may be referring to the "Avenging Unicorn", one of the many fine products for sale at the local Seattle institution Archie McPhee. Archie McPhee carries a full line of bacon- and meat-related items (sorry Risa!), unusual action figures (looking for a posable male nurse? look no more!), and other Very Strange Things . A tremendous resource for Halloween, and of course, plenary review talks. Great time at Andy's by the way! It was a pleasure meeting everyone.

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By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:03:01 +0000

Shantanu– eventually they will be, although I don’t think they’re up yet.

Science– we understand that you have a theory. Honestly you don’t need to keep telling us.

By: Science

Science — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:53:12 +0000

Mark, cosmic acceleration implying dark energy is based entirely on the lack of gravitational deceleration of the big bang observed in supernovae redshift. I’ll try not to test your patience, but it was predicted (based on causal GR gravity mechanism) there would be no gravitational deceleration in the big bang via October 1996 issue of Electronics World, two years before this prediction was confirmed experimentally.

Once the prediction was confirmed experimentally, more appropriate journals like CQG, PRL, etc., still wouldn’t wouldn’t publish, because the mainstream had immediately put an epicycle (dark energy) into the existing (false) application of GR. Lunsford predicts there’s no cosmological constant and that gravity doesn’t have a natural coupling constant. I think Lunsford right because this agrees with the mechanism that predicts the strength of gravity and various other things.

What Lunsford is doing is revisiting an old question. The problem is that despite Pauli having discredited Kaluza-Klein, string theorists can still censor new work because Kaluza-Klein is quite well favoured, despite being false. Kaluza-Klein 5-d unification of Maxwell and GR – so worshipped by stringy theorists – is spurious because Pauli showed that any covariant theory is castable in Kaluza’s form, so the unification is vacuous. Sorry if this is an unwelcome comment

By: Shantanu

Shantanu — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:40:02 +0000

Are the slides of the talks going to be put on the website?

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:23:26 +0000

Thanks Sean! I knew I was forgotting someone fun at our table. If Deidre is reading by any chance – sorry! It was very nice to meet you that night.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 05:24:30 +0000

Damn you Mark Trodden! I had just written almost exactly the same post, only shorter and not as good. So I'll just mention that Dierdre Shoemaker was also at Andy's with us, and the table next to us was also stocked with cosmologists (Savvas Koushiappas, Andrey Kravtsov...). Ed Copeland would have been there if my American phone had managed to talk to his British phone. Must have been over a dozen scientists in the joint that night, and most of them made it to Lisa's talk at 9:00 the next morning. (True, it was Sunday, so some of them may have gone to church.) And don't forget Von's advice for getting ahead in our society: "be white." Not the most practical advice for everyone, but okay.