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Georges Lemaître
On 10/20/2012 7:10 PM, Painius wrote:
Hubble never "came around". "Hubble believed that his count data gave a more reasonable result concerning spatial curvature if the redshift correction was made assuming no recession. To the very end of his writings he maintained this position, favouring (or at the very least keeping open) the model where no true expansion exists, and therefore that the redshift "represents a hitherto unrecognized principle of nature."[23]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble Good catch, AA! So I guess I'm guilty of doing what most people have done? I have endowed Hubble with a discovery and belief that he did not make nor possess. Here Painus uses the "But MOM, everyone is doing it" defense. I guess the old tricks are the best tricks? -- "OK you ****s, let's see what you can do now" -Hit Girl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjO7kBqTFqo .. å˜äº® http://www.richardgingras.com/tia/im...logo_large.jpg |
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Georges Lemaître
On Oct 20, 4:10*pm, Painius wrote:
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:30:53 -0700 (PDT), Double-A wrote: On Oct 16, 8:17 pm, Painius wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:35:07 -0700 (PDT), Double-A wrote: On Oct 16, 12:32 am, Painius wrote: From Wikipedia... "Georges Henri Joseph douard Lema tre (17 July 1894 20 June 1966) was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). He was the first person to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble. Yes, Hubble would have nothing to do with such nonsense! Maybe not at first - but then, when he did come around and embrace the proposal, Hubble gave it scientific credibility. He looked out and saw faraway galaxies that seemed to be rushing away from us at tremendous speeds. He noted that the farther away those galaxies were from us, the faster away from us they appeared to go. Hubble never "came around". "Hubble believed that his count data gave a more reasonable result concerning spatial curvature if the redshift correction was made assuming no recession. To the very end of his writings he maintained this position, favouring (or at the very least keeping open) the model where no true expansion exists, and therefore that the redshift "represents a hitherto unrecognized principle of nature."[23]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble Good catch, AA! *So I guess I'm guilty of doing what most people have done? *I have endowed Hubble with a discovery and belief that he did not make nor possess. *Maybe like everybody else, I don't particularly care for his idea that the redshift represents an unrecognized principle of Nature? Truth is... I think he was right about that last part. You seem to think that the "tired light" idea, which has been thoroughly trounced, should be given another look-see? *Why is that? Change a few assumtions, and it may not seem so trounced. Have you looked into the work of Halton Arp, who was once an assistant to Hubble? He has carried on some of Hubbles original theories and challenged the Big Bank concept. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halton_Arp So he interpreted his observations of those faraway galaxies to mean that the Universe indeed *must* be expanding. And it was never questioned that those faraway galaxies' behaviors had taken place billions of years ago, that there was no way of telling what those galaxies were doing right now, that it was the height of human hubris to glean from those observations that the Universe is expanding NOW. Astronomers don't have any trouble with the thought that we see our own star, the Sun, as it was about eight minutes ago, because the Sun is about 8 light minutes away. They have no problem with the fact that if the star Sirius were to blow up today, we wouldn't know about it until about 8.6 years from now, because Sirius is 8.6 light years away. So why do they have so much trouble with the thought that if a galaxy is racing away from us, that may have been what it WAS doing billions of years ago? How can they take that observation and conclude that the Universe is expanding NOW??? They take measurements of the relative speeds of closer galaxies and extrapolate. *Actually, if closer galaxies seem to be moving apart disproportionately faster than more distant galaxies, where they know they are looking further back in time, they conclude there has been acceleration! Double-A Almost, but not quite, AA. *The conclusion is not that "there *has been* acceleration", no. *The conclusion is that there *IS* acceleration of the NOW expanding Universe. *I have not been able to reconcile that conclusion with reality. *How can a presently expanding Universe be concluded by observing galaxies that are billions of light years away, the light we observe having left those galaxies billions of years ago? Because the galaxies we see billions of years ago appear to me moving apart slower than the closer up one we see. Thus the conclusion that acceleration has occured. Double-A |
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Georges Lemaître
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:10:54 -0700 (PDT), Double-A
wrote: On Oct 20, 4:10*pm, Painius wrote: On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:30:53 -0700 (PDT), Double-A wrote: On Oct 16, 8:17 pm, Painius wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:35:07 -0700 (PDT), Double-A wrote: On Oct 16, 12:32 am, Painius wrote: From Wikipedia... "Georges Henri Joseph douard Lema tre (17 July 1894 20 June 1966) was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). He was the first person to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble. Yes, Hubble would have nothing to do with such nonsense! Maybe not at first - but then, when he did come around and embrace the proposal, Hubble gave it scientific credibility. He looked out and saw faraway galaxies that seemed to be rushing away from us at tremendous speeds. He noted that the farther away those galaxies were from us, the faster away from us they appeared to go. Hubble never "came around". "Hubble believed that his count data gave a more reasonable result concerning spatial curvature if the redshift correction was made assuming no recession. To the very end of his writings he maintained this position, favouring (or at the very least keeping open) the model where no true expansion exists, and therefore that the redshift "represents a hitherto unrecognized principle of nature."[23]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble Good catch, AA! *So I guess I'm guilty of doing what most people have done? *I have endowed Hubble with a discovery and belief that he did not make nor possess. *Maybe like everybody else, I don't particularly care for his idea that the redshift represents an unrecognized principle of Nature? Truth is... I think he was right about that last part. You seem to think that the "tired light" idea, which has been thoroughly trounced, should be given another look-see? *Why is that? Change a few assumtions, and it may not seem so trounced. Have you looked into the work of Halton Arp, who was once an assistant to Hubble? He has carried on some of Hubbles original theories and challenged the Big Bank concept. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halton_Arp So he interpreted his observations of those faraway galaxies to mean that the Universe indeed *must* be expanding. And it was never questioned that those faraway galaxies' behaviors had taken place billions of years ago, that there was no way of telling what those galaxies were doing right now, that it was the height of human hubris to glean from those observations that the Universe is expanding NOW. Astronomers don't have any trouble with the thought that we see our own star, the Sun, as it was about eight minutes ago, because the Sun is about 8 light minutes away. They have no problem with the fact that if the star Sirius were to blow up today, we wouldn't know about it until about 8.6 years from now, because Sirius is 8.6 light years away. So why do they have so much trouble with the thought that if a galaxy is racing away from us, that may have been what it WAS doing billions of years ago? How can they take that observation and conclude that the Universe is expanding NOW??? They take measurements of the relative speeds of closer galaxies and extrapolate. *Actually, if closer galaxies seem to be moving apart disproportionately faster than more distant galaxies, where they know they are looking further back in time, they conclude there has been acceleration! Double-A Almost, but not quite, AA. *The conclusion is not that "there *has been* acceleration", no. *The conclusion is that there *IS* acceleration of the NOW expanding Universe. *I have not been able to reconcile that conclusion with reality. *How can a presently expanding Universe be concluded by observing galaxies that are billions of light years away, the light we observe having left those galaxies billions of years ago? Because the galaxies we see billions of years ago appear to me moving apart slower than the closer up one we see. Thus the conclusion that acceleration has occured. Well, maybe, but not NOW. That's my point. Where is the logic in thinking that the Universe is expanding NOW and that the expansion is accelerating NOW? Pick all that inference out of a 10-billion-year-old box! -- Indelibly yours, Paine @ http://astronomy.painellsworth.net/ "If you want to thoroughly know something, teach it to others." |
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Georges Lemaître
On 10/22/2012 2:31 AM, Painius wrote:
Because the galaxies we see billions of years ago appear to me moving apart slower than the closer up one we see. Thus the conclusion that acceleration has occured. Well, maybe, but not NOW. That's my point. Where is the logic in thinking that the Universe is expanding NOW and that the expansion is accelerating NOW? This is just one of the pitfalls of Painus' belief that all ideas have equal validity in the eyes of science. They don't. And they don't for a reason. A kook needs to think IN the box before they can think OUT of the box, else they won't even know why it's in the box. -- "OK you ****s, let's see what you can do now" -Hit Girl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjO7kBqTFqo .. å˜äº® http://www.richardgingras.com/tia/im...logo_large.jpg |
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Georges Lemaître
On Oct 21, 11:31*pm, Painius wrote:
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:10:54 -0700 (PDT), Double-A wrote: On Oct 20, 4:10 pm, Painius wrote: On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:30:53 -0700 (PDT), Double-A wrote: On Oct 16, 8:17 pm, Painius wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:35:07 -0700 (PDT), Double-A wrote: On Oct 16, 12:32 am, Painius wrote: From Wikipedia... "Georges Henri Joseph douard Lema tre (17 July 1894 20 June 1966) was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). He was the first person to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble. Yes, Hubble would have nothing to do with such nonsense! Maybe not at first - but then, when he did come around and embrace the proposal, Hubble gave it scientific credibility. He looked out and saw faraway galaxies that seemed to be rushing away from us at tremendous speeds. He noted that the farther away those galaxies were from us, the faster away from us they appeared to go. Hubble never "came around". "Hubble believed that his count data gave a more reasonable result concerning spatial curvature if the redshift correction was made assuming no recession. To the very end of his writings he maintained this position, favouring (or at the very least keeping open) the model where no true expansion exists, and therefore that the redshift "represents a hitherto unrecognized principle of nature."[23]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble Good catch, AA! So I guess I'm guilty of doing what most people have done? I have endowed Hubble with a discovery and belief that he did not make nor possess. Maybe like everybody else, I don't particularly care for his idea that the redshift represents an unrecognized principle of Nature? Truth is... I think he was right about that last part. You seem to think that the "tired light" idea, which has been thoroughly trounced, should be given another look-see? Why is that? Change a few assumtions, and it may not seem so trounced. Have you looked into the work of Halton Arp, who was once an assistant to Hubble? *He has carried on some of Hubbles original theories and challenged the Big Bank concept. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halton_Arp So he interpreted his observations of those faraway galaxies to mean that the Universe indeed *must* be expanding. And it was never questioned that those faraway galaxies' behaviors had taken place billions of years ago, that there was no way of telling what those galaxies were doing right now, that it was the height of human hubris to glean from those observations that the Universe is expanding NOW.. Astronomers don't have any trouble with the thought that we see our own star, the Sun, as it was about eight minutes ago, because the Sun is about 8 light minutes away. They have no problem with the fact that if the star Sirius were to blow up today, we wouldn't know about it until about 8.6 years from now, because Sirius is 8.6 light years away. So why do they have so much trouble with the thought that if a galaxy is racing away from us, that may have been what it WAS doing billions of years ago? How can they take that observation and conclude that the Universe is expanding NOW??? They take measurements of the relative speeds of closer galaxies and extrapolate. Actually, if closer galaxies seem to be moving apart disproportionately faster than more distant galaxies, where they know they are looking further back in time, they conclude there has been acceleration! Double-A Almost, but not quite, AA. The conclusion is not that "there *has been* acceleration", no. The conclusion is that there *IS* acceleration of the NOW expanding Universe. I have not been able to reconcile that conclusion with reality. How can a presently expanding Universe be concluded by observing galaxies that are billions of light years away, the light we observe having left those galaxies billions of years ago? Because the galaxies we see billions of years ago appear to me moving apart slower than the closer up one we see. *Thus the conclusion that acceleration has occured. Well, maybe, but not NOW. *That's my point. *Where is the logic in thinking that the Universe is expanding NOW and that the expansion is accelerating NOW? Pick all that inference out of a 10-billion-year-old box! Well it's not even my theory, so I'm not going to try to explain it further. Painius, there is no way of telling what's happening NOW, because velocity and acceleration happen over time. NOW is an instant that has no time. Acceleration could have stopped yeasterday and we would have not way of knowing it. We can only go by what has been happening over longer periods of time. Double-A |
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Georges Lemaître
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 07:01:59 -0400, HVAC wrote:
On 10/22/2012 2:31 AM, Painius wrote: Because the galaxies we see billions of years ago appear to me moving apart slower than the closer up one we see. Thus the conclusion that acceleration has occured. Well, maybe, but not NOW. That's my point. Where is the logic in thinking that the Universe is expanding NOW and that the expansion is accelerating NOW? This is just one of the pitfalls of Painus' belief that all ideas have equal validity in the eyes of science. They don't. And they don't for a reason. A kook needs to think IN the box before they can think OUT of the box, else they won't even know why it's in the box. LOL - you have *no* concept, *no* idea of what we talk about, here, Harlow - none whatsoever. You really should stick to asking questions, because otherwise you always show your "moon". LMFAO ! -- Indelibly yours, Paine @ http://astronomy.painellsworth.net/ "Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to bitch and moan." |
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Georges Lemaître
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:42:22 -0700 (PDT), Double-A
wrote: On Oct 21, 11:31*pm, Painius wrote: On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:10:54 -0700 (PDT), Double-A wrote: On Oct 20, 4:10 pm, Painius wrote: On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:30:53 -0700 (PDT), Double-A wrote: On Oct 16, 8:17 pm, Painius wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:35:07 -0700 (PDT), Double-A wrote: On Oct 16, 12:32 am, Painius wrote: From Wikipedia... "Georges Henri Joseph douard Lema tre (17 July 1894 20 June 1966) was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). He was the first person to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble. Yes, Hubble would have nothing to do with such nonsense! Maybe not at first - but then, when he did come around and embrace the proposal, Hubble gave it scientific credibility. He looked out and saw faraway galaxies that seemed to be rushing away from us at tremendous speeds. He noted that the farther away those galaxies were from us, the faster away from us they appeared to go. Hubble never "came around". "Hubble believed that his count data gave a more reasonable result concerning spatial curvature if the redshift correction was made assuming no recession. To the very end of his writings he maintained this position, favouring (or at the very least keeping open) the model where no true expansion exists, and therefore that the redshift "represents a hitherto unrecognized principle of nature."[23]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble Good catch, AA! So I guess I'm guilty of doing what most people have done? I have endowed Hubble with a discovery and belief that he did not make nor possess. Maybe like everybody else, I don't particularly care for his idea that the redshift represents an unrecognized principle of Nature? Truth is... I think he was right about that last part. You seem to think that the "tired light" idea, which has been thoroughly trounced, should be given another look-see? Why is that? Change a few assumtions, and it may not seem so trounced. Have you looked into the work of Halton Arp, who was once an assistant to Hubble? *He has carried on some of Hubbles original theories and challenged the Big Bank concept. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halton_Arp So he interpreted his observations of those faraway galaxies to mean that the Universe indeed *must* be expanding. And it was never questioned that those faraway galaxies' behaviors had taken place billions of years ago, that there was no way of telling what those galaxies were doing right now, that it was the height of human hubris to glean from those observations that the Universe is expanding NOW. Astronomers don't have any trouble with the thought that we see our own star, the Sun, as it was about eight minutes ago, because the Sun is about 8 light minutes away. They have no problem with the fact that if the star Sirius were to blow up today, we wouldn't know about it until about 8.6 years from now, because Sirius is 8.6 light years away. So why do they have so much trouble with the thought that if a galaxy is racing away from us, that may have been what it WAS doing billions of years ago? How can they take that observation and conclude that the Universe is expanding NOW??? They take measurements of the relative speeds of closer galaxies and extrapolate. Actually, if closer galaxies seem to be moving apart disproportionately faster than more distant galaxies, where they know they are looking further back in time, they conclude there has been acceleration! Double-A Almost, but not quite, AA. The conclusion is not that "there *has been* acceleration", no. The conclusion is that there *IS* acceleration of the NOW expanding Universe. I have not been able to reconcile that conclusion with reality. How can a presently expanding Universe be concluded by observing galaxies that are billions of light years away, the light we observe having left those galaxies billions of years ago? Because the galaxies we see billions of years ago appear to me moving apart slower than the closer up one we see. *Thus the conclusion that acceleration has occured. Well, maybe, but not NOW. *That's my point. *Where is the logic in thinking that the Universe is expanding NOW and that the expansion is accelerating NOW? Pick all that inference out of a 10-billion-year-old box! Well it's not even my theory, so I'm not going to try to explain it further. Painius, there is no way of telling what's happening NOW, because velocity and acceleration happen over time. NOW is an instant that has no time. Acceleration could have stopped yeasterday and we would have not way of knowing it. We can only go by what has been happening over longer periods of time. That's my point. And yet astronomers continue to say that the Universe "is" expanding, and that the Universe's expansion "is" accelerating. It's a hoot and a crock, isn't it? -- Indelibly yours, Paine @ http://astronomy.painellsworth.net/ "Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to bitch and moan." |
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Georges Lemaître
On 10/24/2012 2:46 AM, Painius wrote:
This is just one of the pitfalls of Painus' belief that all ideas have equal validity in the eyes of science. They don't. And they don't for a reason. A kook needs to think IN the box before they can think OUT of the box, else they won't even know why it's in the box. LOL - you have *no* concept, *no* idea of what we talk about, here, Harlow - none whatsoever. You really should stick to asking questions, because otherwise you always show your "moon". LMFAO ! You're not even fit to carry my slip-stick. Never question me. -- "OK you ****s, let's see what you can do now" -Hit Girl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjO7kBqTFqo .. å˜äº® http://www.richardgingras.com/tia/im...logo_large.jpg |
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Georges Lemaître
On 10/24/2012 2:48 AM, Painius wrote:
Painius, there is no way of telling what's happening NOW, because velocity and acceleration happen over time. NOW is an instant that has no time. Acceleration could have stopped yeasterday and we would have not way of knowing it. We can only go by what has been happening over longer periods of time. That's my point. And yet astronomers continue to say that the Universe "is" expanding, and that the Universe's expansion "is" accelerating. It's a hoot and a crock, isn't it? I really hate to fight with you all the time, but you are WRONG all the time. Your foolish argument here is a perfect example. To have it your way would involve a completely new set of physical laws for the universe. Question: Do you have any basis for inventing a new set of laws for the universe? I didn't think so. -- "OK you ****s, let's see what you can do now" -Hit Girl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjO7kBqTFqo .. å˜äº® http://www.richardgingras.com/tia/im...logo_large.jpg |
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Georges Lemaître
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:56:30 -0400, HVAC wrote:
On 10/24/2012 2:48 AM, Painius wrote: Painius, there is no way of telling what's happening NOW, because velocity and acceleration happen over time. NOW is an instant that has no time. Acceleration could have stopped yeasterday and we would have not way of knowing it. We can only go by what has been happening over longer periods of time. That's my point. And yet astronomers continue to say that the Universe "is" expanding, and that the Universe's expansion "is" accelerating. It's a hoot and a crock, isn't it? I really hate to fight with you all the time, but you are WRONG all the time. Your foolish argument here is a perfect example. To have it your way would involve a completely new set of physical laws for the universe. Question: Do you have any basis for inventing a new set of laws for the universe? I didn't think so. You really should stick to what you know, Harlow - kookfites, slut leagues, plagiarism and copyright infringement. You don't know **** about "physical laws for the Universe". LMBO ! -- Indelibly yours, Paine @ http://astronomy.painellsworth.net/ "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." |
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