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From: Whoever you want me to be on 29 Mar 2010 07:20

King Jaja of Opobo WRITES:

Opobo is an area in southern Nigeria. It did not exist as such until
1870. From pre-historic time, what become known as Opobo was formerly
known as Ikot. Opobo (ōpō'bō) [key], town, Southeast Nigeria, in the
Niger River delta. It is a palm-oil collection center and has fishing
and boat building industries.

On Mar 29, 3:23 am, John Jones <jonescard...(a)btinternet.com> wrote:
> Pentcho Valev wrote:
> > The only reason behind Dark Energy:
>
> >http://www.physorg.com/news179508040.html
> > "More than a dozen ground-based Dark Energy projects are proposed or
> > under way, and at least four space-based missions, each of the order
> > of a billion dollars, are at the design concept stage."
>
> > Sometimes the correct solution to the problem (the speed of light
> > decreases with distance and this causes Hubble's redshift) is hinted
> > at in Einsteiniana but then billions may not come and Einsteinians
> > promise not to hint anymore:
>
> >http://www.sciscoop.com/story/2008/10/30/41323/484
> > "Does the apparently constant speed of light change over the vast
> > stretches of the universe? Would our understanding of black holes,
> > ancient supernovae, dark matter, dark energy, the origins of the
> > universe and its ultimate fate be different if the speed of light were
> > not constant?.....Couldn't it be that the supposed vacuum of space is
> > acting as an interstellar medium to lower the speed of light like some
> > cosmic swimming pool? If so, wouldn't a stick plunged into the pool
> > appear bent as the light is refracted and won't that affect all our
> > observations about the universe. I asked theoretical physicist Leonard
> > Susskind, author of The Black Hole War, recently reviewed in Science
> > Books to explain this apparent anomaly....."You are entirely right,"
> > he told me, "there are all sorts of effects on the propagation of
> > light that astronomers and astrophysicists must account for. The point
> > of course is that they (not me) do take these effects into account and
> > correct for them." "In a way this work is very heroic but unheralded,"
> > adds Susskind, "An immense amount of extremely brilliant analysis has
> > gone into the detailed corrections that are needed to eliminate these
> > 'spurious' effects so that people like me can just say 'light travels
> > with the speed of light.' So, there you have it. My concern about
> > cosmic swimming pools and bent sticks does indeed apply, but
> > physicists have taken the deviations into account so that other
> > physicists, such as Susskind, who once proved Stephen Hawking wrong,
> > can battle their way to a better understanding of the universe."
>
> >http://www.springerlink.com/content/w6777w07xn737590/fulltext.pdf
> > Misconceptions about the Hubble recession law
> > Wilfred H. Sorrell, Astrophys Space Sci
> > "Reber (1982) pointed out that Hubble himself was never an advocate
> > for the expanding universe idea. Indeed, it was Hubble who personally
> > thought that a model universe based on the tired-light hypothesis is
> > more simple and less irrational than a model universe based on an
> > expanding spacetime geometry (...) ...any photon gradually loses its
> > energy while traveling over a large distance in the vast space of the
> > universe."
>
> >http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,757145,00.html
> > Monday, Dec. 14, 1936: "Other causes for the redshift were suggested,
> > such as cosmic dust or a change in the nature of light over great
> > stretches of space. Two years ago Dr. Hubble admitted that the
> > expanding universe might be an illusion, but implied that this was a
> > cautious and colorless view. Last week it was apparent that he had
> > shifted his position even further away from a literal interpretation
> > of the redshift, that he now regards the expanding universe as more
> > improbable than a non-expanding one."
>
> > In the end dark minds enter the stage and things get irreversible
> > (billions are guaranteed):
>
> >http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/87150187.html
> > "Dark Energy: The Biggest Mystery in the Universe (...) "We have a
> > complete inventory of the universe," Sean Carroll, a California
> > Institute of Technology cosmologist, has said, "and it makes no
> > sense."
>
> >http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/6057362/Give-scientists-the-freedo...
> > Martin Rees: "Over the past week, two stories in the press have
> > suggested that scientists have been very wrong about some very big
> > issues. First, a new paper seemed to suggest that dark energy the
> > mysterious force that makes up three quarters of the universe, and is
> > pushing the galaxies further apart might not even exist."
>
> >http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7522026/Hubble-telesc...
> > "And the astronomers found that the universe was growing faster and
> > faster with time, as predicted by Einstein in his theory of general
> > relativity. Scientists claim that the universe is made up of three
> > different components - normal matter, which is the physical objects in
> > the universe such as the planets - dark matter, which is invisible
> > matter that creates the gravitational pull that causes galaxies to
> > form - and an unknown energy referred to as "dark energy", the force
> > which causes the universe to expand. Einstein's theory of general
> > relativity claims that space and time are a geometrical structure
> > which can be changed by the behaviour of the matter inside it. So
> > proof that the expansion of the universe is speeding up shows that the
> > contents of the universe, such as the "dark energy" causing it to
> > inflate, are influencing its structure. Ludovic Van Waerbeke, of the
> > Department of Physics and Astronomy at Leiden University in the
> > Netherlands, said: "Our results confirmed that there is an unknown
> > source of energy in the universe which is causing the cosmic expansion
> > to speed up, stretching the dark matter further apart exactly as
> > predicted by Einstein's theory."
>
> > Pentcho Valev
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