Recent content by jimpy

I,m not sure what exactly we are referring to here. A well known dimming effect relating to the expanding universe(the Tolman effect) deals with the reduction in photon flux received in a larger universe(here and now) from a universe that was smaller at an earlier proper time relative to here...

hi Samuel99 it takes a lot of courage for you to post like this.I'm no expert by any means but there are a few issues worth you following up on here. Firstly,in the case of the expanding accelerating universe then the observations that are made are all historic. The most recent have just...

:confused:I'm confused about the standoff here. As an observer so far of this exchange we seem to be talking at cross purposes. The point under discussion appears to be is .51 older or younger than .49 in terms of observed phenomena. So which is it? Have I missed a trick here or should this...

I supposethat roger penrose,william clifford,felix klein,later oskar klein,earlier weyl et al might be really impressed with a curvature driven model.isn't that really the issue?

ole El, I have a quotation from another time: "-we have not to discover the properties of a thing which we have recognised in nature but to discover how to recognise in nature a thing whose properties we have assigned.This development seems inevitable;but it has grave drawbacks especially when...

Dark Matter-fuzzy thinking,bad science General Relativity was and remains an inspired 100 year old guess at the way things might be,only Albert Einstein(in later years dominated by divine convictions) really believed it to be the basis of the TOE.The nature of electrons,the existence of protons...