Yes they certainly are.
“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.
Precisely!
Well said!
Haha! “Nobody can spy unless it’s us.” Touché! (Best uttered while spying on the world through a prism.)
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 &…
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…
Good commentary, well & clearly stated!
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...
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…
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…
Yes! Thanks for this
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.
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…
Yes.
Ah, understood, thanks. Sorry about that.
@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…
@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…
@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…
Yes they certainly are.
“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.
Precisely!
Well said!
Haha! “Nobody can spy unless it’s us.” Touché! (Best uttered while spying on the world through a prism.)
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 &…
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…
Good commentary, well & clearly stated!
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...
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…
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…
Yes! Thanks for this
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.
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…
Yes.
Ah, understood, thanks. Sorry about that.
@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…
@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…
@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…