Starship Asterisk*

Neried wrote: Fortunately (or not), the whole series of claims and conclusions follow from the so-called "plasma redshift", so, unlike almost all of modern astrophysics*, it resembles a house of cards. Let me remove one card, and allow the whole lot to collapse. - - - Unfortunately for BBT...

My Goodness, Well whittle me down to size there Matey. - - - Why is the Night Sky Dark ? In an infinite eternal Universe we should be able to see everything. For an eternal Universe there would have been an infinite amount of time for the light to have traveled so it could reach us from everywhere. ...

America Has A Thinking Problem : Don't let this happen to you! I began to think at parties now and then, to loosen up. Inevitably though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more than just a social thinker. I began to think alone -- "to relax," I told myself -- but I knew it wasn't ...

I do appreciate your taking time to set tasks for me to do Neried. On the electrical charge vs gravity, I have read that electric charge is about 10^35 times stronger than gravity. Now I think they are referring to charge repulsion vs gravity between atomic size particles, not planetary size objects...

In researching the mass differential between the proton, electron and neutron, these web pages appeared. basic mainstream physics lectures. http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/home.html Galileo and Einstein series of lectures. http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/lectures/lectureli...

Hi Michael, I will take your points and advice. I do value this APOD forum as it provides a place to converse with intelligent knowledgeable people who are from the mainstream and the further out. As Copernicus and Galileo were not mainstream, neither was Birkeland or Dobson. It is here I have learn...

It all depends on how one defines life. John Dobson defines it as anything that "directs a stream of negative entropy upon itself". I define it as "where electrical and chemical changes occur", which allows automobiles to qualify in a rudimentary way, tho they are symbiotic in ne...

LOL , Michael. I should have known, good, I like a good catfight. There is nothing so pushing as ones own unexamined belief systems. I'll push all she needs to wake up. Antagonism aside, I am rather obnoxious myself on too many occasions. But hey, who's perfect? I was more worried Neried was like th...

Thanks very much Andy, that's it !

The perennial case of my not going far enough, I gave up too soon on figuring out why.

In my opinion Neried behaves more like a Sophist than a man or woman. In that he/she ignores the spirit of the posting and wants to try and scuttle the mainframe of the argument by nitpicking with the details, and does not spend any effort to understand what the poster is actually trying to say. btw...

[ihttp://www.americanscientist.org/content/AMSCI/AMSCI/Image/FullImage_2003826134527_646.jpg Figure 6. Circularly polarized lightmghttp://www.americanscientist.org/content/AMSCI/AMSCI/Image/FullImage_2003826134527_646.jpg Figure 6. Circularly polarized light][/img] Well, that didn't work. I don't kn...

Apr 17, 2007 <copyright text deleted> [ Admin's note: kovil, I have deleted the text of your long post as it seems to be, word for word, the same material as appears on another website. The webpage from which it comes has a clearly visible copyright statement. The Asterisk* has no intention of breac...

MiniBooNE Results from Fermilab; Science Daily — Scientists of the MiniBooNE1 experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermilab2 have announced their first findings. The MiniBooNE results resolve questions raised by observations of the LSND3 experiment in the 1990s that appeared to contradict findin...

the establishment is so obviously ignoring new data, that it is most apparent they are in denial, so don't bother with playing the 'anti conspiracy theory card', as that is just as invalid an argument that you are accusing me of doing in playing the conspiracy card.

In the beginning, Astrophysicists and Cosmologists did not study electrical engineering, so electrical ideas did not cross their minds when pondering what is going on in our galaxy and between galaxies. Plasma was not well understood by the cosmological community at that time either. Subsequent to t...

Let’s start with Albert Einstein’s statement, "Space and time are not conditions in which we live; they are simply modes in which we think." If we begin with the idea that space and time are simply modes in which we think, then everything we see is actually a delivery system for the point ...

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Uclock, You may have proved your case already, as orbiting satellites have a time differentiation to the ground base station in the GPS system, and something had to be done to make the system work and give accurate answers, and there was a time differential problem of some sort. As the satellites ar...

Neried, If you think that the website Crank Dot Net has any agenda about being interested in the truth, it does not have any interest in the pursuit of truth, its agenda is the promulgation of the established status quo and its own narrow minded set of beliefs, and anything that challenges that mind...

Hello Neried, The Feyerabend post has to do with perception. How do we know what it is that we think we know? This is the entire point of 'our perception of the origin of the universe'. I mean, this is a question we will likely never know the answer to, so it relates directly to 'how do we perceive ...

In thinking this morning about your posting, <<Which makes me ask the question: What does the universe actually look like right at this second? All those far off galaxies and stuff are not anywhere near where we see them because they've been moving for millions and billions of years. . .Yes. I mean ...

The only thing that stays 'fixed' in relationship to everything around us and near and even relatively far away, is the border of our awareable universe. But that is at least 15 billion light years away and maybe 120 billion light years away. So it is a tough rebound to echo off of for a fix, and th...

Hawkgirl, Nice analogy ! It carries the details well. OK, so everything is moving, and it's not where we see it in our present time. The further away the larger the error a-la intrinsic vectors. That's just how the universe is. If gravity travels at the speed of light, then our locale won't be sensi...

I seem to remember a hexagonal shape to a polar photo of Saturn some years ago of its northern lights, this showed up so far. The guessed at reason then, was an additional dimension showing itself, how wacky. http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2005/images/test10.jpg Here is one of Jupiter's polar...

Michael, So you are saying that the positive ions the sun expels as the 'solar wind' is how the circuit is being completed? The sun is a light bulb in a way, and the electrons are being turned into heat and other wavelengths and that is how some of all those electrons are disappearing. OK, and the r...