Cosmology: Inflation theory under attack part 3 (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, October 28, 2017, 21:59 (2582 days ago) @ John Kalber

reblak:I'm sorry you think I have ignored anything, let alone a brand new posting I knew nothing of.

If you would watch the daily entries you could follow the discussion and the new articles I present. Yesterday's answer to you gave you the reference. It discussed three methods of measuring the expansion all of which were in fairly close agreement.

reblak: Their theories reflect [particularly Einstein] a tremendous effort to rationalize a universe that they thought to be finite and expanding. Einstein's Constant is bedevilled as being in 'constant' need of revision! Hubble's Law insists that the further away galaxies are, the faster they recede!

The Cosmologic constant is revised because of new measurements. That it is expanding faster was shown by the supernova studies.

Reblak; But for the sceptic, it is an impossible scenario. In 1905 space was a word used to mean an area surrounding us that is basically empty. We now know that is wrong – but Einstein didn’t. You cannot bend space. Gravitational effects bend the paths of ‘physicalities’ through space. Space is insubstantial so cannot ‘bend’.

How do you explain gravitational lensing? Can you answer that?

reblak: I have yet to see a proposition actually proved using Einstein’s theories. Lauded ‘proofs’ are all open to different interpretations. Tragically, latter-day science is riddled with phony ‘evidence’and what can only be seen as deliberate suppression and distortion intende to support a rigid ‘establishment’ position.

Without Einstein we could not send rockets to anywhere. We slingshot them around planets! Arthur Edington's 1919 proof has been validated many times since.