Posts by Fayvitt

21) Message boards : MilkyWay@home Science : Is it posible that the universe are colapsing at this very moment? (Message 40454) Posted 17 Jun 2010 by Fayvitt Post: Nice to hear you don't subscribe to M/String Theory. There's hope for you yet! The best evidence is light bending by massive sources, esp. galaxy clusters, also predicted before observed. Gravitational lensing. But then.... This also has profound implications on the structure of our universe, but it is one of those conceptually and mathematically complicated subjects. (Which flows logically from the simple base postulates of GR) If something 'logically' follows on from GR, why does it become complicated? It either is..or isn't. Something is either dead, or alive. Schrodinger's cat starts meowing. It could be half dead, and half alive. Or dead AND alive. We know that our current theory of gravitation is incorrect, but that does not mean that what we have is wrong. It simply means that we may need a small correction term to the math, or that some other physical process exists - the leading theory right now being Dark Matter. THAT'S what annoys me no end. If a theory is not testable, or is flawed, it is not a working theory. If the theory can be tested and does not work, it is incorrect i.e. WRONG. How does making up non-existant particles, inserting their 'made up' properties into an equation/formula, make said equations/formulae correct? What is Dark Matter? Well, it's a graviton. Something made up to explain a discrepency. Maybe gravity works differently on galactic scale just as it does at a subatomic level.
22) Message boards : MilkyWay@home Science : Is it posible that the universe are colapsing at this very moment? (Message 40438) Posted 16 Jun 2010 by Fayvitt Post: I'll be the lunatic/crackpot, James. I can bear it ;) The field of Cosmology is NOT that complicated. Explaining theories that aren't valid or don't withstand scrutiny...is. "It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid." Al Einstein Physics explain what's happening in Cosmology, but mathemeticians now use a host of wild, untestable theories. Mathematics does NOT explain observable events as we see them. Technically, the big bang occurred everywhere. Immediately after the big bang, the universe was only the size of a single atom, but expanded very quickly. As space expanded, the matter was able to cool down, and form galaxies, etc. Technically, the big bang had to occur in one place. A point...(loose term in quantam physics). Immediately after the big bang, the size of an atom? Immediately? Planck time disagrees with that. What is the universe expanding into? Big bang theory? No, big bang hypothesis. The mathematics does not explain how, or why. Succinctly, no. Nothing with mass in the universe can travel at the speed of light, and massless particles (such as photons) can only travel at the speed of light. (These are consequences of the Theory of Relativity, much of which has been experimentally verified) Is a photon a particle now, and not a wave? Or hell, is it both? Duality? Paradox? = 2 theories that are forced together that are not compatible. But made to exist and given a name. If it's a particle, it has to have mass, as you can say it is at x,y,z coordinates. If light takes 8 minutes to reach us from the sun, at 7 mins 26secs 100 ms etc etc you have to be able to say where that "photon" is. It HAS to be at a certain place at that exact time. It can't be a wave, as that describes what an object does. Travels in a wave pattern. And what parts of ToR have been experimientally verified? Not theorized or mathemeticized, what parts actually have experimental\tangible evidence of existence? Besides time speeding up as you travel faster, what else? Much means more than a few things. And the one thing as a "scientist" you need to remember is, Relativity is not compatible with quantum theory. Gravity does not work at sub atomic level. Graviton? PURELY hypothetical, and mathematical. Invented particle needed to explain a gap in knowledge. An invention needed to balanace a mathematical equation.
23) Message boards : News : MilkyWay@home screensaver coming soon (Message 40342) Posted 11 Jun 2010 by Fayvitt Post: Fair dinkum, it looks like an ultrasound.
24) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Arrive ... raise Hell ... leave (Message 40341) Posted 11 Jun 2010 by Fayvitt Post: Speaking of testosterone, can't wait to start expending mine again.
25) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Eurovision 1994 - Riverdance (Message 39615) Posted 11 May 2010 by Fayvitt Post: Dude, how can you go past Anne Buckley singing this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cme3k13Zt_Q It's an ethnic thing. But hey, i've got a right to be white, AND be proud of my heritage like anyone else. That's what Celtic dance is about. Ooops, and song.

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