On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote:

A galaxy red-shifted to appear 30 billion years old is "really" much younger
> when you apply the funky logic of "inflation".... Kinda sounds like voodoo
> economics to me.
>

Another variable in the abstract subject to creative bookeeping -- seems
the rate of star formation was 100 times greater in the galaxies surveyed
than that of the Milky Way.

Personally, I do not mind a little creative accounting in astronomy if it
prevents our understanding from falling completely apart.  It is in
business that cooking the books really bothers me.

Eric

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