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Eeyore
Sjouke said:Any name,god,fairy,gnome can be used to prove nothing.
This is how the audiophools operate.
Graham
Sjouke said:Any name,god,fairy,gnome can be used to prove nothing.
Kevin said:I can state without hesitation, that the idea of a mass shell enclosing this
universe, does not fit the observations. Its the actual technical details
that matttter, not some ad-hoc well maybe...
Kevin said:Free will, essentially by definition, is the ability of an object, an "I" to
make a decision that "I" wants. The fact that an aspect of free will is non
predictability i.e. not determinism, does *not* imply that it must be
random. Free will is the ability to chose for oneself. If the choice is
random, than there is no choice. This is trivially obvious.
John said:Consider that brains that evolved as hunters and gatherers are also
capable of differential calculus, reading at 400 wpm, designing
electronics, building and flying jet planes...
I didn't want to get into it. but some speak designs start their HF
rolloff at 10KHz deliberately. Most people can't stand the tsst tsst
tsst sound of many tweeters.
John said:Sarah is cool. We're not afraid of smart, funny, competent women here.
Jamie said:Tea table don't you mean?
Since when did the British give up tea and start being
socialistic with coffee?
Tea table don't you mean?Eeyore said:Kevin Aylward wrote:
That's a shame.
I always though of the Universe as being a bit like some kind of an experiment
in a 'goldfish bowl' sitting on God's ? coffee table.
Graham
John said:Where did the universe come from anyhow?
You can't distinguish between good things and evil things?
Then why does anything matter?
I'd sure rather have lunch with her than anybody else in the race. She
and McCain are genuine; Obama and Biden are fakes through and through.
and my hypothesis at least hints at an explanation.
Beside, I talked it over with Hal Puthoff a year or so ago, and he
liked it.
Yeah...right....
I don't care much for the theatricals of the "Einstein was wrong
brigade",
but wasn't Eistein part of the "Newton was wrong" brigade in his own
way?
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You can state it without hesitation, but unless you can explain how
the _observation_ that the red shift accelerates with distance
doesn't agree with the hypothesis that a huge gravitational
attraction from an external source is the cause of the acceleration,
the statement is baseless.
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In the end, yes, but it all starts with an ad-hoc well maybe.
Don't you think that some time elapsed between Einstein's first
inkling that matter and energy were two sides of the same coin and
his formal E = MC²?
Eeyore said:If free will doesn't exist then who's making the decisions ?
John said:Sarah is cool. We're not afraid of smart, funny, competent women here.
John
My brother-in-law just gave me a briefing on Sarah Palin. Is she really that
dreadful ? It made my blood run cold.
MooseFET said:She is a theocrat + Dick Cheney with breasts. She believes that the
VP has actual powers beyond breaking ties in the senate. She has
motivated that part of the republican base that wishes to centralize
all power in Washington DC and into the hands of a few elite.
The accelerating red shift with distance and the inverse square law
hints at something unbelievably massive toward which the distant
red-shifted galaxies are hurtling.
A wall of some sort perhaps? But in every direction? A bubble of some
sort?
Why not?
Imagine an infinitely or nearly infinitely dense Universe which has
always been there and in which are exerted forces which from time to
time cause a cavitation-like event to occur which creates a bubble into
which outgasses material from the Universe and forms our little bubble
universe, which wasn't there before, all at once.
Also, since we don't know what rules govern the Universe, who's to say
it isn't heaven?
Or God?
The Sziklai pair is one of my faves. I only just discovered it had a nameto
it.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sziklai_pair
I've often wondered what a triple of that configuration might perform like.
Speed problems possibly ?
MooseFET said:I have used the triple version. The first transistor was a 2N4402,
the second a TIP-35 and the third was an array of TIP-36s. The
TIP-35/6 are so much slower than the 2N4402 that the speed of it
doesn't come into it.
MooseFET said:On Oct 24, 11:10 am, John Fields <[email protected]>
wrote:
[...]The accelerating red shift with distance and the inverse square law
hints at something unbelievably massive toward which the distant
red-shifted galaxies are hurtling.
There are several other theories that also explain it. Among them are
some that I like to bring up from time to time.
(1) The Cosmic Body Odor theory
The rest of the universe really is running away from us and yes it is
personal.
(2) The Invisible Magic Unicorns theory
It is all caused by invisible magic unicorns. There will never be an
explanation of where the magic unicorns came from.
The physicists I have spoken to about it tend to prefer (1) over (2).
On the more serious side, we assume that gravity follows a simple
inverse square law mostly because it fits the data so well at small
values of "r". If that is just the first term in a much longer
series, the curve could be fit.
A wall of some sort perhaps? But in every direction? A bubble of some
sort?
Why not?
A wall wouldn't make the right curve. The acceleration from a wall
would grow too rapidly at the extreme distances and too slowly short
of that. You could sort of fit the curve by making the wall extremely
massive and extremely far away but never accurately.
Imagine an infinitely or nearly infinitely dense Universe which has
always been there and in which are exerted forces which from time to
time cause a cavitation-like event to occur which creates a bubble into
which outgasses material from the Universe and forms our little bubble
universe, which wasn't there before, all at once.
I assume this is some force other than gravity. The field of gravity
from masses in two directions cancels producing no effect at the mid
point between them. This would not "cause the outgassing".
In quantum physics something the size of the universe could come into
existence all on its own for no reason. The odds are extremely low
but we would only exist to ask the question in the one place where it
happened so to us the odds would be 100%.
Also, since we don't know what rules govern the Universe, who's to say
it isn't heaven?
Or God?
Or the invisible magic unicorns.
since there is no other rational explanation
for the acceleration of the red shift with distance other than an
external gravitational source.
If you know about anything that could be causing it, how about letting
us know about it?
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Sad.
"2 Gravitational fields are generated by a mass."
If that's true, (and observation does seem to indicate that it is)
then for mass to be accelerating there must be a gravitational field
attracting it.
In the case of distant galaxies, observation of their red shifts
indicates that the galaxies are receding, and that the more distant
the galaxy the higher its velocity of recession.
That, in turn, indicates that those galaxies are accelerating toward
what _must_ be a mass which is generating the gravitational field.
Since we see this acceleration everywhere we look, the mass must be
surrounding us at a distance greater than the galaxies receding the
fastest and, since our universe is mostly empty, that makes our
universe essentially a bubble surrounded by a mass capable of
attracting galaxies to itself.