[lbo-talk] Astronomy

Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Fri Aug 6 08:29:11 PDT 2010


On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 22:36:36 -0400 Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> writes:
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> On Aug 5, 2010, at 10:21 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote:
> > The best is from Schlegel who assembled a series of slices from as
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> > far away as current observation goes, then moves toward us in
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> > or slices. The other series of slides is not animated, but does
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> > illustrations, then superimposes observation images. It shows the
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> > texture of the dark matter at various distances and pans inward
> > until the visiable images are seen imposed on the dark matter
> webbing.
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> Just to point out that the "dark matter" is not observed, merely a
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> computer-generated artefact reflecting an arbitrary mathematical
> construction to which nothing in physical reality corresponds.

That sounds sort of like Ernst Mach's argument against the existence of atoms. That's not to deny that there aren't real issues besetting contemporary cosmology.

Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant


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