In the cosmological community, the idea of dark matter is well established, though a significant minority think that the idea of a modified law of gravity...

In the 1960ies and 70ies the theory of Kant, Laplace, von Weizsäcker of the formation of the Solar system out of a gas disk surrounding the protostellarad...

Crossposting allows news-reading software to "know" that the same article appears in both places, so (for example) if you (a human reader of both...

The event is called GW150914. This Nature page is a good summary http://www.nature.com/news/einstein-s-gravitational-waves-found-at-last-1.19361 as is this...

"John (Liberty) Bell" wrote in message ... snip ... What we may have...

We are in the middle of a river flowing at around 400 Km/sec in the direction of Galactic l = 282 degree (+/- 11) and b = 6 degree (+/-...

Consider a hollow sphere of inert material moving inertially in interstellar space. The volume of the sphere is on the order of 10^6 cubic centimeters , and...

Dirk Bruere at NeoPax writes Oz wrote: Charles Francis' proposal (gr-qc/0604047 backed by gr-qc/0604047, gr- qc/0605127)...

I am needing to obtain software, including source code, for the derivation of the magnitude-redshift relation. Does anyone know where I can get...

the title does look intriguing. at least the claims are very extraordinary. maybe the GR experts on this forum can shed light on whether any of this makes...

I feel strongly that there are serious problems concerning the pricing of academic journals and the amount of research money which goes into their...

In article , "John (Liberty) Bell" writes: This may well be standard stellar...

I have a very long page at: http://astroneu.com/plasma-redshift-1/ concerning two theories by which light is redshifted by a plasma which is of such a low...

wrote: Rather than following Usenet convention and replying point by point (which would make for a long and unwieldy post that...

In two previous threads "static universe" and "static universe - reply" I gave reference to papers that argue that "Observational evidence favors a static...

Philip Helbig wrote: quote ..... Why don't you write a paper, submit it to a journal, and post the rejection letter here so that we can see what arguments...

In principle, suppose that I say: The CMB is perfectly homogeneous, and all "imperfections" whatever is discovered is the effect of a foreground object. Not...

If you want to understand physics (astronomy) you have to use terminilogy independent of any human point of view. IMO Max Tegmark does not follow this idea...

Over the years I have heard astronomers repeatedly say two things to the public so many times that they have become common knowledge. My studies have led me...

For a very long time Halton Arp has reported finding physical associations between large nearby spiral galaxies and quasars at much higher redshifts. If Arp's...