From: Rock Brentwood on
On Jun 14, 3:40 pm, Uncle Al <Uncle...(a)hate.spam.net> wrote:
> > All cosmologists on deck!
> > Limber up your arms.
> > Heat up lots of fudge.
> > Paradigm on fire!
> "The reasons for the difference between the radio source and the
> Jupiter beam profiles are therefore still unclear."
>    1) Jupiter is neihter a point source nor a broad sky source.
>    2) Bob, enjoy a well-earned retirement while demonstrably better
> minds think original thoughts.

The press reporting in the site needs improvement. In an adjoining
article, the columnist reports that so-and-so posits (expotential)
inflation all the way back to time 0 -- a mathematical impossibility.
What this actually describes would be a hyperbolic cosine (which is,
BTW, one of the large number of possible solutions in the presence of
a real or effective cosmological "constant"). In contrast, an
expotential entails an infinite time tail and there would be no time 0
(also a possible solution, BTW).

In another of the adjoining articles "Cosmologists Predict a Static
Universe in 3 Trillion Years" -- the oft-repeated statement is made
that late in a De Sitter expansion all the other galaxies will have
"moved too far away to see".

This is Newtonian thinking -- note the tacit reference to
simultaeneity.

The correct statement is this: at later points in time, the size of
the cosmological horizon INCREASES, which means more and more
galaxies' worldlines come into the past light cone -- not less. What
ACTUALLY changes is that they appear to be further away and more red-
shifted. But there's more of them that come within view, not less;
since the past light cone at event X contains the past light coens of
al events Y that lie to the past of X

Therefore, timelike worldlines that intersect Y's past light cone must
intersect X's past light cone; so all worldlines visible at Y are
visible at X (albeit with greater red shift). This, of course, is
excluding worldlines that end abruptly in singularities.
From: Androcles on

"Rock Brentwood" <markwh04(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:4fd1cbe7-fd69-454c-9298-b4a3352c67b6(a)c33g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
On Jun 14, 3:40 pm, Uncle Al <Uncle...(a)hate.spam.net> wrote:
> > All cosmologists on deck!
> > Limber up your arms.
> > Heat up lots of fudge.
> > Paradigm on fire!
> "The reasons for the difference between the radio source and the
> Jupiter beam profiles are therefore still unclear."
> 1) Jupiter is neihter a point source nor a broad sky source.
> 2) Bob, enjoy a well-earned retirement while demonstrably better
> minds think original thoughts.

The press reporting in the site needs improvement. In an adjoining
article, the columnist reports that so-and-so posits (expotential)
inflation all the way back to time 0 -- a mathematical impossibility.
What this actually describes would be a hyperbolic cosine (which is,
BTW, one of the large number of possible solutions in the presence of
a real or effective cosmological "constant"). In contrast, an
expotential
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entails an infinite time tail and there would be no time 0
(also a possible solution, BTW).

In another of the adjoining articles "Cosmologists Predict a Static
Universe in 3 Trillion Years" -- the oft-repeated statement is made
that late in a De Sitter expansion all the other galaxies will have
"moved too far away to see".

This is Newtonian thinking -- note the tacit reference to
simultaeneity.

The correct statement is this: at later points in time, the size of
the cosmological horizon INCREASES, which means more and more
galaxies' worldlines come into the past light cone -- not less. What
ACTUALLY changes is that they appear to be further away and more red-
shifted. But there's more of them that come within view, not less;
since the past light cone at event X contains the past light coens of
al events Y that lie to the past of X

Therefore, timelike worldlines that intersect Y's past light cone must
intersect X's past light cone; so all worldlines visible at Y are
visible at X (albeit with greater red shift). This, of course, is
excluding worldlines that end abruptly in singularities.
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Gotta love those expotentials that end abruptly in asymptotes.



From: eric gisse on
Robert L. Oldershaw wrote:

>
> Just when you thought your cosmological assumptions were rock solid...
>
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100613212708.htm
>
> http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0912/0912.0524v2.pdf

The conclusions of the sciencedaily article are hyperbole compared to what
the technical paper _actually says_. I know - I know - reading literature is
for elitists, but I find that knowing what you are talking about helps.

Assuming that the results are true, then all that is done is that error bars
on WMAP data get a bit wider. BFD.

>
> All cosmologists on deck!
> Limber up your arms.
> Heat up lots of fudge.
> Paradigm on fire!

You didn't even read the paper.

Find a new hobby.

From: eric gisse on
Rock Brentwood wrote:

> On Jun 14, 3:40 pm, Uncle Al <Uncle...(a)hate.spam.net> wrote:
>> > All cosmologists on deck!
>> > Limber up your arms.
>> > Heat up lots of fudge.
>> > Paradigm on fire!
>> "The reasons for the difference between the radio source and the
>> Jupiter beam profiles are therefore still unclear."
>> 1) Jupiter is neihter a point source nor a broad sky source.
>> 2) Bob, enjoy a well-earned retirement while demonstrably better
>> minds think original thoughts.
>
> The press reporting in the site needs improvement.

No, it needs to be deleted entirely. The article discussed two entirely
different things (WMAP systematics, integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect) as if
they were the same.

Sawangit wrote a paper that was published in April's MNRAS about the ISW
effect. The ISW effect was not found, but only at something like a 1 sigma
confidence level.

[...]
From: Sue... on
On Jun 14, 12:58 pm, "Robert L. Oldershaw" <rlolders...(a)amherst.edu>
wrote:
> Just when you thought your cosmological assumptions were rock solid...
>
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100613212708.htm
>
> http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0912/0912.0524v2.pdf
>
> All cosmologists on deck!
> Limber up your arms.
> Heat up lots of fudge.
> Paradigm on fire!

I Need More Dilithium Crystals, Captain!
--Scotty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_gravity

Sue...