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Johnney Guinness Send message Joined: 11 Sep 06 Posts: 3093 Credit: 2,652,287 RAC: 0 |
In my mind, there were never been any big bang, no black holes nor white holes, no dark matter but maybe some kind of black energy which should more be called invisible energy :P Michel, Its good we agree! But tell me why? What leads you to the conclusion that there is no big bang, no black holes nor white holes, no dark matter? Is it just a general belief? Is it just your instinct, like a feeling these things are wrong? Or did you read something that suggested these things don't exist? John. |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Update: Dark Energy Camera Captures First Sparkling Space Pictures The world's most sensitive digital camera has begun peering into deep space, and the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 looks to be staring right back. Some 60 million light-years from Earth, NGC 1365 stars among the first pictures from the new 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera, released Tuesday. Lynn |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Just read the "Human phenomenon" by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ. He coined the term "noosphere" in the Fifties. The noosphere is the sphere of knowledge, a gigantic brain which envelopes the Earth. This before Internet existed. He died in New York in 1954 and is buried there. Rome did not want him. Tullio |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
I have a Canon SLR (no DSLR), a Yashica with a Zeiss Tessar lens and a Sonu Dsc-V3, also with a Zeiss Vario Sonnar lens. The first two are not digital and I am sorry to have to abandon them to junk. Digital photography is killing all photographer's shops where I used to go and discuss lenses or buy new lenses for the Canon. All this is part of the past. Tullio |
TEX Send message Joined: 15 Mar 12 Posts: 16 Credit: 3,437,862 RAC: 0 |
A really great image of the spiral galaxy, NGC 1365. The only way to see it right now, is via space telescope. In the northern hemisphere, it rises in the S.E. at around 3:15PM and sets in the S.W. by 10PM. It never gets far enough above the horizon to do any decent viewing, much less imaging. Imaging is my primary objective of my astronomy endeaver. |
Johnney Guinness Send message Joined: 11 Sep 06 Posts: 3093 Credit: 2,652,287 RAC: 0 |
Hi TEX, Welcome to the SETI forums, good to have you with us my friend! I heard you mention in another thread you do some astronomy. Do you have a website or any of your images on the web? Be nice to take a look at what your seeing in the Texan sky's. John. |
.clair. Send message Joined: 4 Nov 04 Posts: 1300 Credit: 55,390,408 RAC: 69 |
new 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera Reading through it all, it is made of 62 x 9.2Mp sensors, So, no to bad afterall :¬) |
TEX Send message Joined: 15 Mar 12 Posts: 16 Credit: 3,437,862 RAC: 0 |
Regarding the comment: "I firmly stand over my claim that there is no Dark energy and there is no Dark matter!" Personaly, I'm not sure about the "Dark Energy", but I know for a fact, "Dark Matter" does exist ! It's red in color and very dangerous! Spock will be carrying it around in his ship some 600 or so years from now. And some lunatic, ex-miner will steal it and use just a tiny bit of the "Dark Matter" to destroy Spock's home world. Stick around and you'll see for yourself. Frankly, I'm too old and tired to hang around to watch it happen; though it would be kinda cool to meet Kirk. And another thing, There was a "Big Bang"! Just because no one heard "IT" doesn't mean it didn't happen. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Once upon a time there was the steady state theory of Bondi-Gold-Hoyle, with no Big Bang. Then came in 1964 the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation at 2.7 K by Penzias and Wilson, which had been predicted as a result of a Big Bang by George Gamow. End of the steady state theory. This is history. Tullio |
TEX Send message Joined: 15 Mar 12 Posts: 16 Credit: 3,437,862 RAC: 0 |
.. Ah, Yes, I remember Blondy(from "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"),Goldy(from "Laugh IN"), and the card game guy, Hoyle. They gave up on "Steady State" and went on to learn "Texas Hold 'em". That there is a high stakes card game fer you guys who play nothin' but Chess. As I also recall, didn't Penzias and Wilson work for Bell Labs at the time. Used that humongous horn type antenna/wave guide............? . . Oh and hey there John; I'll be posting some more astro-pics on my "PhotoBucket" site: . http://s1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd447/Tex2024/Tex2024%20AstroPhotos/ There's only a few there right now. I use three different cameras while imaging: Orion SSDS Color Imager, and for best results, my Canon 450D/XSi DSLR. An Orion SS AutoGuide Cam is used for offset guiding during long exposures; plugs into the rear of my top-mounted "Explore Scientific" ED80mm APO. I use two different scopes for viewing and imaging: In my observatory, a Celestron CPC1100 with a top-mounted ED80mm. I use an Orion Planetary/AutoGuide Camera on this 80 as well. And, for portability in the field, an "Explore-Scientific" ED127mm APO Triplet with another ED80mm on top. The CPC1100 is permanently mounted on a precision "Wedge" since it is a "Fork-Mount" scope, and too heavy to be hauling around at "Star Party"s. The ED127mm is my portable rig and I use the Orion Atlas EQ-G equatorial mount for it. The mount is absolutely the most important piece of equipment. German Equatorial is the only way to go. That's where your $$$ needs to go. If you're interested, you can see my ranch and the OB; little white dot in the middle of one of my pastures...north of the old house. http://s1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd447/Tex2024/?action=view¤t=ranch-2.jpg Regards to All, Jim H. |
Johnney Guinness Send message Joined: 11 Sep 06 Posts: 3093 Credit: 2,652,287 RAC: 0 |
Thanks Michel, I understood everything you said. You have good English. It seems its more your instinct that tells you these things don't exist. John. |
Johnney Guinness Send message Joined: 11 Sep 06 Posts: 3093 Credit: 2,652,287 RAC: 0 |
Once upon a time there was the steady state theory of Bondi-Gold-Hoyle, with no Big Bang. Then came in 1964 the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation at 2.7 K by Penzias and Wilson, which had been predicted as a result of a Big Bang by George Gamow. End of the steady state theory. This is history. Tullio, I strongly suspect that the steady state universe theory will make an appearance on the scene again very shortly. And every astronomer and cosmologist will all eventually agree it was correct all along. John. |
Johnney Guinness Send message Joined: 11 Sep 06 Posts: 3093 Credit: 2,652,287 RAC: 0 |
.. Tex, You got some shockingly beautiful astro images there my friend. It takes great time and patients to get quality images like that. I love your Horsehead Nebula; http://s1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd447/Tex2024/Tex2024%20AstroPhotos/?action=view¤t=HH-Flame.jpg LOL....And your ranch looks a bit like South Fork. Dallas reappeared on our TV screens there recently and old J.R. is back playing his old Texan oil man tricks again. I bet he lives just down the road from you! :) John. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
John, you are a good storyteller. You keep us in suspense, just like a good comic strip author. Just wait for the next issue of the paper. Tullio |
Johnney Guinness Send message Joined: 11 Sep 06 Posts: 3093 Credit: 2,652,287 RAC: 0 |
John, you are a good storyteller. You keep us in suspense, just like a good comic strip author. Just wait for the next issue of the paper. Tullio, Yes, i try my best to provide entertainment for you. I hope you enjoy it. John. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11354 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
John, something about red shift and steady state universe just does not work for me. How does it work for you? |
Johnney Guinness Send message Joined: 11 Sep 06 Posts: 3093 Credit: 2,652,287 RAC: 0 |
John, something about red shift and steady state universe just does not work for me. How does it work for you? betreger, Glad you asked that question. And i will be very honest here, i don't have the precise answer, yet! The whole big bang theory rests on the red shift theory. If red shift is proven wrong, then the big bang never happened. So truth be known, the whole big bang theory is resting on very thin ice. Here is a fact to show you just how thin the red shift theory is; There isn't a single scientific experiment you can carry out in a lab that conclusively proves that the wavelength of light changes, or red shifts, because the object emitting the light is moving. In other words, the only place we see red shifted light is from deep astronomy images. Its never been proven in a scientific laboratory test. So taking that into account, there are multiple other explanation's for why the wavelength of light might change, or appear to change! One possibility is that it doesn't change at all and its an optical illusion that astronomers see because, in theory, they are looking "out" of the bubble of energy the earth is sitting in. A bit like a fish in a bowl in your kitchen. The fish looks out of his spherical glass bowl and observes the world. Then the fish measures the world outside. But the fish's measurements are bent because the glass bowl acts as a magnifying glass. The fish never notices that he is looking out through the glass bowl, so he makes mistakes in his measurements and never notices. Its one possibility. Maybe we are in a type of glass bowl looking out and not noticing it, just like the fish. John. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11354 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
John, I really like Doppler. |
John Neale Send message Joined: 16 Mar 00 Posts: 634 Credit: 7,246,513 RAC: 9 |
Here is a fact to show you just how thin the red shift theory is; Unsurprisingly, you're dead wrong. The Pound–Rebka experiment achieves exactly that. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
The Big Bang theory does not rest on redshift but on the cosmic microwave background, detected in 1964 by Penzias and Wilson, and successively analyzed by the COBE satellite. It is an observable effect, foreseen by George Gamow. "Theory determines what can be observed", said Albert Einstein. Tullio Incidentally, the Hubble Space Telescope has just imaged a galaxy born 600 million years after the Big Bang by the Gravitational Lensing effect due to General Relativity. This is the most distant galaxy ever seen. |
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