I started watching Game of Thrones and came upon one of the most beautiful quotes I've ever heard

keagmcG · 10 days

you can`t postpone death. The secret is to die before you die- so you can live!

sol1869 · 20 days

I don`t think this is a contradiction. The way I understand it is that the whole "neighborhood" expanding 1000s of lightyears is calles the ISM (Interstellar Medium). In this ISM we are currently in a lower density region called the Local Bubble.

However, I think this is where it gets confusing: Although we are in a Local Bubble, we are also in a Local Interstellar Cloud (LIC). So, although the region is supposed to be less dense it is not, because material from the Scorpius-Centaurus Association (LIC) is flowing directly at us.

As one can see from the picture above, this material is bound together in filamentary structures held together by magnetic fields. So the LIC itself is very heterogeneous. The question is, are we about to enter one of those filaments or not???

notTHEhawk · 21 days

relevant

yogthos · 22 days

sorry to have taken you out of context.. don`t take it as a personal assault, it was late and I was tired.

But again, I have to stress the fact that there have been more than one observations to give credence to the EU theory. If you can not see that for yourself and discount everything because you think that the advocates are straw men, then so be it. I am not trying to convince anyone- nor would it be possible to do so. Everyone has to find out the truth for themselves.

In the links I sent you there is a paper that should have satisfied you. And what is your response to the other articles? You said I should show you something that you haven't seen before. But it seems to me that you have not even looked at them, otherwise you would see that even mainstream outlets show that there is serious doubt.

What I would love to see is that people would actually put down their pitch forks and listen to “the other side”. That is all that is needed. It is obvious that the EU theory does not have all the answers and may well be wrong in some points. But there are some serious problems with the current paradigm.

What about the findings of Halton Arp about redshifts and Quasars? http://www.haltonarp.com/articles http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Brynjolfsson_A/0/1/0/all/0/1

What about the obvious discrepancies in the understanding of comets? (Again, how can you dispute that the current theory for “dirty snowballs” is just simply not holding water?) Where is the water anyway? Why are there x-rays coming off of them? Why the sudden outbursts?...

And what about all the “anomalies” of the sun? Sunspots and the solar wind? Magnetic reconnection? The misleading statement of “hot gas” when it is actually plasma and is not a superconductor? The list goes on and on…

I am not an advocate of the EU theory (yes, really), but I do see that some of the current models have been falsified over and over again and are explained by ad hoc hypotheses which can not sufficiently describe reality as observed.

yogthos · 22 days

thank you for actually wanting to discuss this with me. I have had many comments that made me believe that this online community is very narrow minded.

At first I want to point out that it would be nice if people would actually open their minds to possibilities other than what the current paradigm (in astronomy) seems to allow.

You make a very important point about the role of empirical observations. But have you read the article that I have referred to (ESO) which states that observations from our solar neighborhood have failed to account for any so called dark matter? This is only one of recent (and less recent) articles which falsifies the foundation of the “gravity only” paradigm. Unfortunately these “inconvenient incidents” do not get much attention (did you ever see an article like this on the front page?)

Like you said it doesnt take just one observation, but many to falsify a theory. If you would have read the pdf about electric comets (which was written for people who dont necessarily have a PhD) then you would have been given many more observations which do just that.

more reference:

www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=10230

http://www.ptep-online.com/index_files/2007/PP-08-01.PDF

http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.2546

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18839

http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2012/03/15/a-blind-man-in-a-dark-room-looking-for-a-black-hole-that-isnt-there/

http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=8qx7sc1r

I challenge you to study more about this and not seriously have foundamental doubts about the current view

alessa28 · 22 days

the self is an illusion- stiched together by the subjective experiences we have

yogthos · 22 days

good Sir, I have tried to do this before, but people aren`t willing to listen or educate themselves. Here you go: http://www.plasmacosmology.net/ and before you dismiss it, read up on it (also http://www.thunderbolts.info/pdf/ElectricComet.pdf)

at least I could confirm my theory of getting downvotes- something that would be nice to see with the theories coming from the current astrophysical community.

good day!

yogthos · 23 days

I love these articles! Filled with theories of deductive reasoning with a great possibility of not being able to falsify it (http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1217/) and a hint of superciliousness. Fantastic!

downvotes here I come!

noperdd · 24 days

thank you for sharing. I was stuck in this kind of thinking today...

gratenez · 27 days

Nokia: connecting people

Indifference11 · 1 month

if it is inanimate then I am incapable of hate

zakik88 · 1 month

I have the feeling we won`t be seeing too many of these kinds of posts anymore...

b0ozer · 1 month

Astronomers actually starting to believe what they are seeing?

sol1869 · 1 month

well read up on the next chapters, you`ll get there...

Emperor_Zar · 1 month

look for GOSPA in about three to four months

b0ozer · 2 months

I dont understand why denying AGW implies somehow being anti-green. I welcome every opportunity to make this world a better place- oil and coal is obviously not going to cut it much longer. It isnt just releasing C02 (which is a minor contributor to climate change) but is also very harmful to the environment.

Also: I think that without working on a local level (community) we won`t be able to tackle global problems.

rings_of_saturn · 2 months

fantastic article. Once you understand that black holes, dark matter, dark energy etc. are all constructs of mathematicians that aren`t interested in looking through a telescope or in a lab, you start realizing that these phenomenons are theoretical fictions and impossbile to test. You might as well argue that there is a giant piece of invisible cotton candy in the center of the galaxy.

It`s amazing how refreshing this approach to cosmology really is.

rexhardwick · 3 months

I raise you a "scandinavian" inspired bed I built some years ago :P http://i.imgur.com/WPnVS.jpg

newtrawn · 3 months

Undulatus asperatus, an amazing cloud indeed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undulatus_asperatus

WhitneyRobbens · 3 months

It`s clearly Data traveling back in time acquainting himself with "books" of the 21st century for a study in the 24th century...

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