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Diamonds Are Forever(kirstenhacker.wordpress.com)
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Acceleration Towards a Bottleneck(kirstenhacker.wordpress.com)
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Black Hole Sun(kirstenhacker.wordpress.com)
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by nixtaken 7y ago
Thanks for the tip. I'm new here.
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Or a confederacy of dunces. Same difference. The dunsmen of Scotist thought were once famous for their brilliantly labyrinthine, obfuscating logic until the enlightenment started and people began making fun of their pointy hats. This is jus
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by nixtaken 7y ago
The choice between the big-bang and tired-light is a choice between self-consistent theories which each explain the available data - the absence of distant stars in this case. Some say that the choice should be made based on politics, marke
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by nixtaken 7y ago
The atoms in the distant stars are the same as the atoms here, but they are being shaken around relative to where we are - that is an explanation in terms of space. It relies on the motion of the atoms in the distant star being faster than
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by nixtaken 7y ago
He is askng for an explanation in terms of quantum mechanics and I gave one, but I prefer the first explanation I gave in term of the speed of light. What is nice about tired light or steady-state universes is that the two explanations are
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by nixtaken 7y ago
He wanted a quantum explanation in terms of photons, so I gave him one. I liked the original explanation I gave in terms of the speed of light better: "If a vibrating star is always moving towards or away from the detector at greater t
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by nixtaken 7y ago
Prior to her post-doctoral work, she wrote her thesis on the synchronization of particle beams with light, but it didn't have anything to do with mysticism. This contains a sample of some of that work: https://kirstenhacker.
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by nixtaken 7y ago
Think of me as her publicist. And the article that was flagged in your link was a good one.
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She is a German Ph.D. in physics with 3200 followers and over 2.5 million answer views on Quora. Her posts are regularly upvoted by respected physicists and she is known for writing unusually clear explanations of complicated topics. https
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by nixtaken 7y ago
If atoms in star A and star B are moving in opposition - away and towards one other in a steady-state oscillation - this would cause destructive interference between the emitted photons. No energy will be exchanged and they will be blind to
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by nixtaken 7y ago
In the scientific community, we talk about how different foundational principles or axioms change the heuristics of physics and that is what this article was about. Convention A leads to Riemannian coordinates and the big bang. Convention B
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by nixtaken 7y ago
You're right that this language is not precise enough. Where you put the clocks matters a lot. What is synchronous to one person is asynchronous to another.
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Those who believe in the big bang say that there was an inflationary epoch during which particles traveled faster than light - just like the Standard Model virtual particles within collider experiments which temporarily violate conservation
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by nixtaken 7y ago
I think the idea rests on the notion that the stars all obey the same physical laws and are made of the same types of atoms, but that the timing of the motion of atoms in distant stars is not synchronized with our own. I like to think of th
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by nixtaken 7y ago
The physical process is gravity as Laplace described it back in the 1700s as a sort of breathing motion. Stars in our vicinity tend to breathe in synch and that is why they are easy to see. Jargon from the past only sounds mystical when pre
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by nixtaken 7y ago
People who've been conditioned to imagine a big bang bubble that expanded at greater than the speed of light and then popped often find it difficult for to imagine Fred Hoyle's steady-state universe (which is what she is trying to
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by nixtaken 7y ago
A vibrating star is a star that is literally moving back and forth relative to an observer. That doesn't sound like new-age mysticism to me. With "vibrating in a mode which is out of synch with our own" it looks like she is t
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by nixtaken 7y ago
I think the wiki lacks impartiality and that the handwaving in the article was done by a German PhD in physics with an eye to helping people develop intuition. If a vibrating star is always moving towards or away from the detector at greate
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Weary Light(kirstenhacker.wordpress.com)
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Black hole detritus has gotten all over everything(kirstenhacker.wordpress.com)
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Airing LIGO’s dirty laundry in public(kirstenhacker.wordpress.com)
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The data suggests that the bifurcation described in her article is real https://www.wsj.com/articles/where-women-fall-behind-at-work...
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Kip Thorne admits BULLSHIT artistry regarding neutron stars and gravity waves(kirstenhacker.wordpress.com)
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Kip Thorne admitts bullshit artistry regarding gravitational waves(kirstenhacker.wordpress.com)
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by nixtaken 7y ago
With the contrast she made between WIMPs+tiredlight and Higgs+bigbang, I think she suggested that when both languages have equal predictive power, one should choose the language that is consistent with existing definitions. If a new languag
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by nixtaken 7y ago
The only mention of tired light in this article was here: >This story has elements of self-consistency and inconsistency; WIMPs + tired light and the Higgs + big bang are two ways to say the same thing, but why do physicists insist on sp