You have to realize that cosmology is composed of provisional
hypotheses by some very smart people. Some of them are widely
accepted because they seem provide a logical explanation for
phenomena that can be measured. If some genius came up with a more
satisfactory explanation that could be verified it would be jumped
on. It would not be much fun if we understood everything. Might as
well pack it in then.
Those are not the only ideas out there. I personally don't like the
idea of dark matter either and am rooting for the hypothesis by Joao
Magueijo at Imperial College in London that the speed of light is
only constant now and was different at the beginning of the universe.
Some of the latest data seems to shoot that down though. It is all
very exciting stuff.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Apr 5, 2007, at 2:21 PM, Donald wrote:
>
> Uh, hi Joel. Bearing in mind I'm no Physicist, or Mathematician...
>
> I mean the paradigm where we live in an electrically-sterile universe,
> dominated by Newtonian mechanics as elaborated by Einstein. Where we
> believe in more than three dimensions; where there is something called
> 'space-time'; where matter can compress into 'black holes'; most
> matter
> can't be seen, and there is something called 'dark energy'; comets are
> dirty iceballs, or icy dirtballs, or whatever fits this week; where
> our
> space probes tell us one thing, we express shock and surprise, then
> add
> another strange creature to the menagerie to explain the anomalies.
>
> Big Bang and the electrically sterile universe are busted flushes.
> There
> was no big bang, there can be no time travel, and the dominant
> force in
> nature is electrical.
>
> Howzat!?
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