No Comment, beyond what I've already said.
Jack
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From: Robert Holmes
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Young but distant gallaxies
Jack -
First rule of FRIAM: no one talks about specifics.
Second rule of FRIAM: no one talks about specifics
Robert
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Jack Leibowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As a new correspondent in the FRIAM family, would someone please explain,
with specifics, what particular emergent ideas are being referred to in the
paragraph below.
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From: "Phil Henshaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
Coffee Group'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Young but distant gallaxies
>I guess that's the puzzle, since we can't use triangulation to measure
> distance for stars we use various corollaries for age to measure distance
> and of distance to measure age, according to the equations that have
> seemed
> to make sense so far. That the equations have not been making sense in
> several ways, like needing the invention of dark energy and dark matter to
> bend them for other discrepancies, is what science keeps doing, adding
> "epicycles" on old theory until some complete impasse arises... and
> someone
> finally has to think up something completely new. If others don't come
> to
> the same impasse, like not seeing that emergence *must* be a local
> individual developmental process and so not asking *how*, no amount of
> good
> solutions for the problem will be recognized.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>> Behalf Of Nicholas Thompson
>> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:09 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [FRIAM] Young but distant gallaxies
>>
>> Dumb question for you cosmologists to chew over:
>>
>> How can they be so far away and yet so young? Or, to put it even
>> dumber,
>> are there parts of the Universe that are so far away that they havent
>> happened yet?
>>
>> I guess this is a question about scales of distance vis a vis scales of
>> time.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
>> Clark University ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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>>
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