Excellent. Thanks. For years on end I have thought all this cosmological orthodoxy was contradictory nonsense. In particular the cosmic distance scale makes no sense to me. I tried to print the Halton Arp paper but it would not let me without paying a fee. Do you know where I can find that paper and print off a copy? The expanding universe theory never made sense to me. Let alone the Big Bang. The red shift thing seems to contradict the idea that light speed is constant. The idea that you can figure out the cosmic distance scale from star types seems dodgy to me at best. I am happy to accept trigonometric parallax but nothing more than that seems safe. Assumptions and speculation pretending to be fact. I hate it. My students are taught that absolutely everything is a theory that is probably wrong. Anyway, for me most of so called modern science is just humbug used to support some money making, status making, enterprise or other. That was why I left the world of universities and chose - as far as I could - to think for myself.
Hi David, glad you like it. Totally agree on the unlikely accuracy of any cosmic measurement, especially premised on theorems and computer models and 'interpretations'. There is no real single verifiable source of truth for anything the cosmologists claim and they overwhelm the average person with data and symbols.
Good for you to teach your students that these are theories and eventually to leave academia. Group think, money chasing as you say, publish or die and whoever controls the money controls the theme. I have family members in 'academia' and they are completely brainwashed. No need for critical thinking in their domains.
Thanks for that link. Great. I also have family in the academic world who do not question orthodoxy, do not know what the difference between a theory and a fact, do not comprehend that evidence can be of differing quality. Please keep your posts coming and send any links to your work. It may sound a bit ridiculous - perhaps I was just lazy - but before the covid disaster I sort of thought I was the only person thinking along these kinds of anti science lines and before Substack and Steve Kirsch I had not the least idea how to connect with like minded thinkers.
Thanks David - substack has a lot of good writers - most of them ad hoc part time. The value is in their critical thinking. We don't all need to agree on the object being analysed (eg flat earth is making a comeback but I can't see the point of that) but at least questions are being asked. Most of the 'old dogma' is centuries in age with no updates...a lot of it from the last century is just theory and much of it plain wrong. Yet the 'education' and 'media' never discuss other viewpoints. Steve K is great - I hope he takes necessary security precautions, since we all know what the pharma-CIA-CDC complex does to dissenters.
Thanks Dave, I think the long term historical perspective is missing and needs a book or two. History of Scientism - akin to what Stephen Meyer has done with the History of Science and logging the gaps and irrationalities in 'science'.
Excellent. Thanks. For years on end I have thought all this cosmological orthodoxy was contradictory nonsense. In particular the cosmic distance scale makes no sense to me. I tried to print the Halton Arp paper but it would not let me without paying a fee. Do you know where I can find that paper and print off a copy? The expanding universe theory never made sense to me. Let alone the Big Bang. The red shift thing seems to contradict the idea that light speed is constant. The idea that you can figure out the cosmic distance scale from star types seems dodgy to me at best. I am happy to accept trigonometric parallax but nothing more than that seems safe. Assumptions and speculation pretending to be fact. I hate it. My students are taught that absolutely everything is a theory that is probably wrong. Anyway, for me most of so called modern science is just humbug used to support some money making, status making, enterprise or other. That was why I left the world of universities and chose - as far as I could - to think for myself.
Hi David, glad you like it. Totally agree on the unlikely accuracy of any cosmic measurement, especially premised on theorems and computer models and 'interpretations'. There is no real single verifiable source of truth for anything the cosmologists claim and they overwhelm the average person with data and symbols.
There is a pdf copy of Alp's book here for free (https://oceanofpdf.com/authors/halton-arp/pdf-seeing-red-redshifts-cosmology-and-science-download/). He is not well known outside of 'alternative science'.
Good for you to teach your students that these are theories and eventually to leave academia. Group think, money chasing as you say, publish or die and whoever controls the money controls the theme. I have family members in 'academia' and they are completely brainwashed. No need for critical thinking in their domains.
Thanks for that link. Great. I also have family in the academic world who do not question orthodoxy, do not know what the difference between a theory and a fact, do not comprehend that evidence can be of differing quality. Please keep your posts coming and send any links to your work. It may sound a bit ridiculous - perhaps I was just lazy - but before the covid disaster I sort of thought I was the only person thinking along these kinds of anti science lines and before Substack and Steve Kirsch I had not the least idea how to connect with like minded thinkers.
Thanks David - substack has a lot of good writers - most of them ad hoc part time. The value is in their critical thinking. We don't all need to agree on the object being analysed (eg flat earth is making a comeback but I can't see the point of that) but at least questions are being asked. Most of the 'old dogma' is centuries in age with no updates...a lot of it from the last century is just theory and much of it plain wrong. Yet the 'education' and 'media' never discuss other viewpoints. Steve K is great - I hope he takes necessary security precautions, since we all know what the pharma-CIA-CDC complex does to dissenters.
Thanks Dave, I think the long term historical perspective is missing and needs a book or two. History of Scientism - akin to what Stephen Meyer has done with the History of Science and logging the gaps and irrationalities in 'science'.