- "In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded."
- -- Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
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- "The Big Bang is dead. It's a theory based on a
theory based on an assumption...and that assumption was wrong."
- --Amy Acheson, amateur astronomer
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- The French mathematician Jules Henri Poincaré
once compared science to a house of stones. He said, "Science is facts;
just as houses are made of stone, so is science made of facts; but a pile
of stones is not a house, and a collection of facts is not necessarily
science." This analogy is apt, because like a house of stones, a collection
of "facts" can easily crumble. "Facts" are not truth;
they are the transient perception of truth.
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- For members of the general public with no training in
the sciences, the "facts" are whatever they are told by the scientific
establishment. The problem is, the "facts" are profoundly colored
by interpretation, and interpretation is often based on nothing more than
a guess. Perhaps this is most evident in the dominance of the Big Bang
theory. Space age discovery has discredited and finally refuted the theory,
yet within the halls of official science, it is presented as "fact."
Very few scientific publications today express doubt about a hypothesis
which a few decades ago was acknowledged to be precarious. And the truth
is, nothing has happened to substantiate the theory, despite repeated self-serving
announcements of new "verifications."
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- It's amazing how simple the flaw is in the Big Bang theory.
It all boils down to the credibility, or lack thereof, of the Doppler interpretation
of redshift. Light frequencies from remote objects in space, when shifted
toward the red, are claimed to signify the velocity of the object away
from the observer -- and no other explanation is admitted.
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- The Doppler effect is not complicated. Everyone is familiar
with the sudden drop in pitch of a train's whistle as it approaches and
then moves past us. The same principle is used in a police radar gun, to
measure the speed of an automobile. Once astronomers noted the varying
degrees of redshift in remote space objects, most began to interpret this
shift as a reliable indicator of velocity. This gave them a mathematical
basis for calculating both the size and age of the universe, beginning
with the Big Bang.
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- It is interesting to observe how a theory grows into
"fact" over time, evidence be damned. Carl Sagan's Cosmos was
published almost a quarter-century ago. At that time, the Big Bang had
not yet become a "fact"; questions were still permitted. On the
issue of redshift Sagan wrote: "There is nevertheless a nagging suspicion
among some astronomers, that all may not be right with the deduction, from
the redshift of galaxies via the Doppler effect, that the universe is expanding.
The astronomer Halton Arp has found enigmatic and disturbing cases where
a galaxy and a quasar, or a pair of galaxies, that are in apparent physical
association have very different redshifts...."
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- Sagan's acknowledgment here shows a candor rarely found
in standard treatments of astronomy for the general public. It's also remarkable
that 25 years ago, the astronomer Halton Arp had already posed the challenge
to the expanding universe, and the Big Bang. And yet today, one would think
the issues have all been settled.
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- Sagan continues, "If Arp is right, the exotic mechanisms
proposed to explain the energy source of distant quasars -- supernova chain
reactions, supermassive black holes and the like -- would prove unnecessary.
Quasars need not then be very distant. But some other exotic mechanism
will be required to explain the redshift. In either case, something very
strange is going on in the depths of space."
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- At the time of Sagan's Cosmos, the Doppler interpretation
of redshift was debatable. Since that time, discoveries in space have definitively
refuted this interpretation, despite the absence of any public announcements
to this effect.
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- The positions of remote galaxies have now been plotted,
based on the common interpretation of redshift, and the result exposes
the lie. When each galaxy is reduced to a dot on a "map," something
"miraculous" occurs.
- (This "map" may be viewed at http://www.thunderbolts.info/
- tpod-archive-04/tpod-fingers-of-god.htm)
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- The "map" appears to present the "fingers
of God" pointing to Earth, as if we are are the center of the universe.
How could this be? No one on either side of the debate considers the earth
to be the center of the universe, and everyone seems to agree that no matter
where an observer is placed, the same effect will be produced. It is an
ILLUSION, and the most obvious explanation is that using redshift to measure
distance will artificially stretch groups of galaxies along radial lines
away from the observer. In other words, large clusters of galaxies in relative
proximity to each other have been artificially projected outward along
radial lines spanning billions of light years. To eliminate the illusion,
you only need to eliminate the Doppler interpretation.
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- But I've oversimplified the picture. Cosmologists DO
have a partial explanation for the "fingers of God" effect. They
tell us that some of the galaxies along the radiating lines are "galaxy
clusters," moving around a common center of gravity. And since that
involves motion both toward and away from the earth, in these cases the
"illusion" should be expected. The problem is that the "fingers
of God" span VASTLY larger distances, and across these distances the
astronomers' own assumptions preclude dynamic interactions. Indeed, Halton
Arp has pointed to hundreds of instances in which multiple objects of different
redshifts are part of coherent systems; the bodies are interacting physically
and energetically, and obviously do not stand billions of light years away
from each other.
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- Under the weight of this direct evidence -- or should
I say proof -- the Big Bang hypothesis as a whole collapses. Yet instead
of giving up a failed theory, astronomers have turned to a "get out
of jail free" card -- inventing invisible matter, with the option
to place it wherever it will be mathematically useful to make their models
work. This is the myth of "dark matter," which in recent years
has enabled astronomers to hold on to a picture of the universe defied
by observation at every turn. Since it is both invisible and undetectable,
there is no limit to the usefulness of dark matter, wherever the predictions
of their theories have failed. In fact, this device can be applied to all
anomalous movements within the macrocosm, with no possibility of refutation.
Dark matter is outside the reach of any practical scientific tests, and
we are only asked to believe in it because of the failures of standard
models.
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- We are all familiar with the age old question, "If
a tree falls in the forest, and there is no one there to hear it, does
it still make a sound?" Another question might be, "If a fact
is disproved, and no one admits it, is it still a fact?"
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- Nobel Prize-winning physicist Percy Williams Bridgman
once said, "There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against
the impact of a new idea." But most scientists are not guilty of stupidity.
Rather, they are guilty of ASSUMPTIONS. Theories were accepted as "facts"
before all the evidence was in, and as a result, evidence contradicting
the facts was either misinterpreted or ignored. It is time for assumptions
to be set aside, so the truth might finally prevail.
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- Comment
jfysita@terra.com.mx
10-18-04
Regarding the Article "The Fingers Of God Point To No Big Bang"
By Michael Goodspeed, the simplest and maybe the correct explanation for
the perceived red shift may be found with Paul Marmet.
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- http://www.newtonphysics.on.ca/
- BIGBANG/Bigbang.html#Author
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- http://www.newtonphysics.on.ca/faq/faq.html
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- http://www.newtonphysics.on.ca/
- BIGBANG/Bigbang.html
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- In short, he states that the redshift can be explained
by vast quantities of molecular hydrogen (H2) in interstellar space, which
is not easily detecable, unlike molecular hydrogen (H). Light interacts
over enormous distances with this material (H2) and is slowly redshifted,
but the source of light is not receding at tremendous speed from the "Big
Bang".
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- In response to his previous article, I wrote to Michael
Goodspeed about this, but after checking his webpage tonight, I feel that
Marmet's stuff might not fit with said webpage. If you should think that
it is a good explanation for the Big Bang, maybe someone else could write
an article to let it be known to the general public through rense.com
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- The longer the mistake of the "Big Bang" is
left uncorrected, the harder it will be to change things.
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- Comment
- From Ted Twietmeyer
- 10-19-4
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- Let's look at some other wonderful things that mainstream
science has given us. Zero point energy (ZPE) is present everywhere. Amateur
scientists have known this for many decades and built successful devices
to capture this energy and convert it to cold electrons. Only now is so-called
"mainstream science" beginning to recognize ZPE, and call it
"their" discovery. The other scientists seem to find something
magical about a physicist in a wheelchair. They polish the chrome on Hawking's
wheels, simonize his tires, charge his batteries and do voice computer
upgrades for him. All bow - the King of Science has arrived. Personally,
I feel bad the man is in that chair. It is something he most certainly
didn't deserve.
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- On the other hand, would everyone hold the same reverence
for him if he wasn't in it ? I wonder. Has he really come up with new "revelations"
about science ? Let's examine the facts. For most of the past century it
was known among NON-mainstream people, that ZPE conversion to real power,
time travel and gravity control were not only practical, but had been accomplished.
Some of this was done in government labs and most of it in the private
sector. These were always scoffed at by mainstream physicists. Hawking
howled out more than once that none of these were possible. Mainstream
droid scientists all chimed in much like the House of Commons in England,
all yelling HERE HERE ! whenever they agree with whomever is speaking.
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- One by one, these other "forbidden sciences"
were announced as "possible" or even "practical" by
his highness on the portable throne. So what changed, when for example
we always heard that time travel would "take all the power in the
universe to accomplish ? Nothing at all in the real world - just a change
in his highness' mind.
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- We can thank the all-knowing mainstream physics gods
for the electricity so cheap that the meters were removed from all buildings
in the 70's. For the clean, efficient hot fusion energy that now powers
our homes now after it superseded the free nuclear generated electricity.
From a business standpoint, mainstream "science" has a crappy
track record and no investor would fund them. Yet few seem to notice this
and over and over they successfully BS congress and continue to obtain
billions for to continue bogus research. My question is - WHY and HOW do
they continue to get away with it ?
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- Now you may ask - what does this rant have to do with
red shift ? Simple - Red shift is just another "construct" that
"scientists" cooked up, to explain away an annoying and inconvenient
phenomena. And because "mainstream science" cooked it up, whatever
they have thrown in the pot is considered edible. I'm not saying that all
scientists are bad. In fact, I work with them everyday. What I am saying,
that they should think about an expression used on the old "Sightings"
television program - that "no mystery is closed to an open mind."
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