Hi John,
What is "dark energy" other than a postulated or conjecture entity
that is part of an attempted explanation of observations of how light
from supernovae appeared to be streached as if the supernovae are
accelerating away from us.... Do we give such "entities" the status of
existing on so frail a foundation? The same critisism applies to scalar
fields and dark matter. Until we actually find them experimentally, then
it is helpful to keep them firmly in the "conjectured but not proven to
exist category". :-)
My attitude is that we need to be sure that our beliefs are backed
up by empirical evidence before we declare them justified. This is not
an easy task as many entities, such as numbers, are forever beyond the
realm of experience but we can still reason consistently about them...
Onward!
Stephen
Onward!
Stephen
On 1/23/2012 11:10 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 Stephen P. King <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
" How would you recognize the better theory if you are such a
strong "believer" in the Big Bang?"
If somebody developed a new theory that explained everything the Big
Bang did but also explained what Dark Energy is I would drop the Big
Bang like a hot potato and embrace that new theory with every fiber of
my being, until the instant a even better theory came along. I have
absolutely no loyalty toward theories.
John K Clark
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