On 11 May, 08:50, Craig Markwardt
wrote:
sean writes:

...

It is worth noting how the swift team and other cxontributors to the
gcn network supply posts which contradict themselves and show that
beamed theory and SR and the standard model cannot explain GRB`s.

It is worth noting that your comments are erroneous. Specifically...

Note gcn6389 where a redshift of 3.5 is `observed` .

You are in error. In fact, the authors say, "the red color might
suggest a redshift of z 3.5." So they (a) never said "observed";
(b) used very tentative language implying low confidence, because (c)
it's not a spectral redshift but a photometric one taken several hours
after the burst.

... THen in gcn 6392
the incompetent swift team calculate a redshift of 5. As if it were
a meaningful calculation as most objects obserevd by swift and any
astronomer is usually 5.

Your comment is irrelevant. Whether or not most objects observed by
Swift have a redshift of 5, the rare ones that *do* have a redshift 5 are very interesting for many reasons. Thus it is relevant to

know the approximate redshift of a given burst, regardless of the ones
that have come before.

The fact that the Swift UVOT detected the afterglow in V band a few
minutes after the burst does indeed indicate a "lower" redshift
(i.e. the lack of a strong Ly alpha forest in V). However, the lack
of detection by Thoene et al several hours later leads to a much
weaker conclusion because the source was so much fainter then.

I note your irrelevant and unsubstantiated ad hominem attack on the
Swift team.

To compound the general incompetence of the observers posting to gcn
comes gcn 6398.
Here they calculate that the redshift is 2.3.

...

True, but the measurement reported by Jakobsen et al (GCN #6398) is by
a different and much more reliable technique (i.e. a high resolution
spectrum).

I note your continued ad-hominem attacks without any substantiation.

Do you get the differences in the levels of confidence in the
following statements?
* "the red color might suggest a redshift of z 3.5." #6389
* "the UVOT ... indicates a redshift of less than 5." #6392
* "a firm upper limit of z 2.3 can be placed on the redshift" #6398
Because if you can't, it might be a good time to take a refresher
course on the English language.

It seems that little has changed: you continue to make
unsubstantiated, erroneous, and irrelevant claims, and now you appear
to be adding ad hominem attacks as well. Congratulations on your
consistency.

CM

First of all one only has to look backat any of your posts in the last
few years to see
good examples of unjustified ad hominem attacks made by yourself. If
anything my post above is the exception. Whereas your filth is the
rule. Not least because as my earlier post on this thread shows..In
many cases in the past you claimed that my predictions were incorrect
and were without proof (and you usually include a ad hominem attack
or two). In fact the supernova-grb connection and multi peaked
lightcurve predictions for all observed wavelengths I made years ago
that you claimed were untrue unsupported by evidence and without any
physics have since then been verified by not least of all, Swift
itself. In case the meaning of this eludes your simple mind .. as far
back as 2000 you said I was wrong to claim that all grbs did not have
a supernova connection and that all lightcurves would show variability
and late time flares . In fact I was right. Observations and papers
since then havve confirmed that these miguided theoretical predictions
made by you in support of beamed theory were not consistent with
observations or later analysis. It was you who got it wrong and it was
my predictions from that time which have not only been confirmed but
stood the test of time. The same goes now for your `scientific` rating
scheme for redshift analysis. If you you think that the redshift is
definitely or firmly2.3. then you got it wrong earlier when you or
others claimed your science gave indicated it 2.3.
If your science cant tell the difference between 2.3 or greater than
2.3 then Id say your science is about as incorrect and flawed as it
was when it incorrectly predicted that all grbs were supernovas
sourced and that all lightcurves were smooth power law decays without
late time multiple flares So seeing as my predictions are always
proved right, yours always proved wrong , by your own data . then Id
say.... you deserve to be refunded some of the ad hominem attacks you
yourself so ungraciously handed out in the past.
Sean
for a correct explanation of how there is no grb supernova connection
(contrary to the incompetent claims of beamed theorists like
Markwardt )see..
www.gammarayburst.com