http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/07/11/quote-on-the-day/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:57:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/07/11/quote-on-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-3075 Nathan Wed, 13 Jul 2005 03:55:33 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/07/11/quote-on-the-day/#comment-3075 I don't have the training in physics to make any authoritative judgements, but from what I've read, there are cosmological theories built around plasma physics and an "electrical universe" model that seem to explain things more consistently and more consisely than the Big Bang model, which seems like it has to be continuously jury-rigged to account for the things that don't fit ( like the finding that the expansion of the universe seems to be speeding up, for example). And yet, the Big Bang is treated as uncontestable truth by the scientific mainstream. Why? Is it because too much status and reputation is at stake? Or is it because the Big Bang idea is the most evolutionary one available, and the evolutionary motif has become so fundamental to the collective mind of Big Science that it just can't think outside that box without extreme discomfort? I don’t have the training in physics to make any authoritative judgements, but from what I’ve read, there are cosmological theories built around plasma physics and an “electrical universe” model that seem to explain things more consistently and more consisely than the Big Bang model, which seems like it has to be continuously jury-rigged to account for the things that don’t fit ( like the finding that the expansion of the universe seems to be speeding up, for example). And yet, the Big Bang is treated as uncontestable truth by the scientific mainstream. Why? Is it because too much status and reputation is at stake? Or is it because the Big Bang idea is the most evolutionary one available, and the evolutionary motif has become so fundamental to the collective mind of Big Science that it just can’t think outside that box without extreme discomfort?

]]> http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/07/11/quote-on-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-2954 alistair Mon, 11 Jul 2005 20:37:19 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/07/11/quote-on-the-day/#comment-2954 this is a big riff so hold on. in all the time we have been keeping physicists in tweed jackets and ivy-covered homes just off campus we have seen little for our money. acouple of really big bangs in the desert followed by two in japan. but mostly they deliver us platitudes that come in the form of things like black holes and superstrings. reasonable maps, possibly, but nothing concrete. the latest map thingy breathlessly delivered is a thing called dark matter. a description of the 95% of the matter in the universe that we can`t find or measure but we need to have exist to account for the way the math is starting to run. like the actions of other religions, physicists keep coming up with more complex unproveables that are either too small to see or happened to long ago to refute or are admittedly unseeable. scientology is based on more concrete foundation than that. the emporor has no clothes. he is a fat hairy naked guy striding purposefully amongst the masses and nobody says shit. and the evolution thing is just another fanciful device that funded darwin`s jaunt around the galapigos islands. this is a big riff so hold on. in all the time we have been keeping physicists in tweed jackets and ivy-covered homes just off campus we have seen little for our money. acouple of really big bangs in the desert followed by two in japan. but mostly they deliver us platitudes that come in the form of things like black holes and superstrings. reasonable maps, possibly, but nothing concrete. the latest map thingy breathlessly delivered is a thing called dark matter. a description of the 95% of the matter in the universe that we can`t find or measure but we need to have exist to account for the way the math is starting to run. like the actions of other religions, physicists keep coming up with more complex unproveables that are either too small to see or happened to long ago to refute or are admittedly unseeable. scientology is based on more concrete foundation than that.
the emporor has no clothes. he is a fat hairy naked guy striding purposefully amongst the masses and nobody says shit.
and the evolution thing is just another fanciful device that funded darwin`s jaunt around the galapigos islands.

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