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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 (ÅpÅ'bÅ) [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, 3:23Â 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 > > pva...(a)yahoo.com- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - |