No one knows what a singularity is in the real world. We only have a mathematical model of a singularity in terms of two sets of very theoretical phenomenon. One is the black hole, and what actually abides at its "center" is unknown. The other is the Big Bang and what it might have...
It's true that nothing will stop the progress of science and sooner or later the data tells the tale. But there is a problem with new data. The CMB and the Super nova recession data are just about the only major new discoveries that have been made recently. And they are both corroborative of...
It is not implicit in a forum where people have widely varying comprehension of the theories.
I say, in this forum, it should be. It's not a lot of trouble to add "the math would indicate" or "theory suggests" to passages that are purely speculative like dark energy/dark matter.
It...
The theoretical part is not implicit particularly in Cosmology. All theory includes a great deal of subject matter that is widely corroborated. Such factual components of theory may be factually stated with no ill-effect. However, the parts of theory that are either very low on data, long on...
You know, this is what bugs me about the current model. People cite all of it's tenets as fact without regard to relative probability. It is highly likely that everything we see around us was unimaginably dense and compact at one point. Fine. We have evidence that is very hard to interpret...
Well, I thought that 6mqpmw said he only posted once and that was the only one I read and it's not like he was going totally spaghetti monster on us. I suppose he could have posted in a more appropriate forum, but his thesis of a meta-scale solution (big black hole jet stream) speaks to what I...
What I'd like to know is how or why specifically relativity dictates that space itself is expanding rather than matter translating "normally" away from all other matter? It seems to me that we would observe the same red shift galactic drift and homogeneity profile with the vis U being a very...
Like I've said before, the CP is not generally assumed the way you say it is. It is not assumed in order to refute it so much as confirm it. It is widely assumed to be quite true, and most studies by far attempt vigorously to confirm it with all manner of liberal projections of the data using...
You are being very circumspect with the above characterization. However, when I hear cosmologist being interviewed, they say without qualification things like "if the universe is convext it will expand forever, if it is flat it will reach a steady state (or something like that) and if it's...
In Bayes theorem the variables you mention above are necessarily probabilities, not Boolean variables. The allowable values of these varables range inclusively between 0 and 1. If you like you can fudge them all around however you like to make the results come out however you see fit. That's...
Well, as arrogant as it seems, I am saying that most astrophysicists are irrational on this one point. I'm saying that this irrationality is due to adherance to an old concept that is imminently understandable, but one that is by it nature is impossible to prove or disprove. I am saying that...
I have. It's a high probability based on both the widely extant structure of the universe and the history of our discovery of it.
We have plenty of data. I use that data (the visible universe) to predict that we should look not for homogeneity but for differentiation (a dipole in the CMB...
As a layman maybe you should stay away from the math. Bayes theorem is a probability theorem. Probability theorems by definition cannot be proof of anything. Hope this helps.
Good lord, listen to yourself. You are saying that the rest of the examined universe has "absolutely nothing to...
By not formally assuming the higher probability that the Big Bang is a finite phenomenon in a much larger, materially hierarchical context, you assume the Big Bang is unaffected by larger forces of scale. Your peers talk in terms of the universe being flat or convex when such curvature is...