eaim

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by eaim 7y ago
Yes they certainly are.
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by eaim 7y ago
“Investigation takes time” They have been “investigating” for a decade. It’s simply spy vs spy & that's it. If that sounds skeptical, fine. Nothing wrong with with skepticism. It’s healthy.
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by eaim 7y ago
Precisely!
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by eaim 7y ago
Well said!
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by eaim 7y ago
Haha! “Nobody can spy unless it’s us.” Touché! (Best uttered while spying on the world through a prism.)
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by eaim 7y ago
Their reputation notwithstanding, it makes little difference if all they are doing is taking notes or passing along statements, rather than digging & getting answers. That’s the forgotten duty of true reportage & journalism. They do
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by eaim 7y ago
All is vagueness. It’s popular! Why bother with evidence when agencies / governments / media can simply make vague statements about threats & security? Oh & of course we can’t supply evidence because that would threaten o
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by eaim 7y ago
Good commentary, well & clearly stated!
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by eaim 7y ago
Here’s an article from Rob Sheldon, who worked on ROSETTA. He is less timid than Ekeberg: https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/rob-sheldon-t...
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by eaim 7y ago
Sorry but I’d have to disagree: There are plenty of people working on cosmologies that don’t include the Big Bang, or that do include it but only as one facet of a larger theoretical framework. As for not being able to imagine how you expla
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by eaim 7y ago
All said and done, the current state of cosmology (whether one falls in with mainstream theories or not) is a mess. It has so many addendums, codicils & caveats that one has to be almost a type of lawyer of physics to be able to navigat
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by eaim 7y ago
Yes! Thanks for this
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by eaim 7y ago
If the Bullet Cluster had offered not hypothetical but empirical, incontrovertible evidence for Dark Matter, at this juncture we wouldn’t even be calling it Dark Matter anymore.
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by eaim 7y ago
Sorry but that’s an intellectual dodge. A verbal fiddle. Saying it is a “name for something” doesn’t make the fact that it’s a hypothesis disappear. One is simply positing the need for more “Russian dolls” inside the Russian doll one has hy
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by eaim 7y ago
Yes.
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by eaim 7y ago
Ah, understood, thanks. Sorry about that.
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by eaim 7y ago
@astro123 The following excerpt is the crux of the author’s argument regarding DM, & it points to the dark elephant in the room that a lot of physicists are bothered by but don’t want to discuss: “It's perhaps worth stopping to ask
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by eaim 7y ago
@astro123 Sorry my comment uploaded before I was done. It is an error to state that there is evidence for dark matter. There is no evidence for it other than that as a hypothesis it adds support to a larger cosmological theory; that of the
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by eaim 7y ago
@astro123 There’s a tautology in your critique. You’re attempting to suggest that there is evidence for dark matter. There isn’t. Dark matter is a theory, one that has not yet produced empirical evidence to support it (& perhaps cannot