Not direct observations. Hypothetical calculations.Originally posted by UTEOTW:
Not religious. Direct observations.
No man has ever directly observed one million years, let alone one millenium.
Thus, religious observations.
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Not direct observations. Hypothetical calculations.Originally posted by UTEOTW:
Not religious. Direct observations.
That's a religious fantasy!Originally posted by UTEOTW:
I also challenge the assertion. Light has a finite speed of light so I claim that we can directly observe billions of years by looking progressively further into space.
It's all in your imagination and you can't prove a word of it.Originally posted by UTEOTW:
Show me how I am not looking back in time when I look at things. I can only see my computor monitor as it was a few fractions of a second ago. The moon is over a second old. The sun I see as it was over 8 minutes ago. The outer planets, hours. The nearest star, years. The most disatant naked eye objects, millions of years. The most distant with telescopes, billions of years.
Just how is that fantasy. Another unsupported and unsupportable assertion.
Calling the distance that light travels in a million years, a million light years, is indeed science fiction since there is no way on earth to empirically prove such a thing.Originally posted by UTEOTW:
The speed of light is a fantasy? Uh....Before I embarass myself calling Norway and all, you can prove this, right? Now, do you have any citations or references that are on toic that you can give us or will we keep playing games? Calling the speed of light a "fantasy" is doing nothing bu playing games. Please quit trying to derail threads if you don't have something tangible to add.
Good point about peer review. Peer review is part of the scientific process.Originally posted by The Galatian:
I would have to agree somewhat with Helen on the Nat. Geographic. They are often very good, but they have made some very bad calls, the most notable of which was publishing on a new feathered dinosaur, igoring the warnings of scientists to wait for peer review.
Sorry if you have grown tired of our intelligent discussion. Perhaps someone else has something to offer to wake you up.Originally posted by UTEOTW:
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Let me know when you have something to offer.
I think you are just trying to stir things without offering anything. I hope you had fun. I did not. Please don't imagine that your games have been convincing to anyone.
Yawn.
They measured the radius and then waited to see how long it took to light up.The light echo was formed by supernova light scattered from a dust sheet, which lies 220 parsecs away from the supernova, 50 parsecs thick along the line of sight, as inferred from radius and width of the light echo.
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0301184The same result may be used to deduce that the speed of light in vacuo is exact to a few parts in 10^32.
"This statement seems to indicate some rare form of abstract brain activity. "The light echo was formed by supernova light scattered from a dust sheet.
Originally posted by UTEOTW:
Reads like surrealist poetry to me.The light echo was formed by supernova light scattered from a dust sheet.