Questions of Light and Space (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, October 10, 2010, 15:00 (5158 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

Please don't be insulting to my intelligence. My point is that they either CAN account for it, or they CAN'T. Secondly, the term 'Euclidean' geometry has not once escaped my lips in this conversation, nor was it even implied other than in the context of defining a spatial origin from which to start. Even when kicking this idea around over coffee I never dreamed that it would be a simple straight line measurement. There IS limited linear movement in space, but that has nothing to do really with the matter of defining a set of spatial coordinates.-I'm not insulting your intelligence. That you are very intellignt is quite clear. And it was George who brought up Euclidean geometry, and at that point you did not object to his comment. We are both fishing around for an answer to your issue because neither of us is an astrophysicist or cosmologist, so we are exchanging opinions. My guess is they can't for the reasons I gave. -Where you and I seem to be in strong agreement is science is in a mess right now because of the strong and improper peer review system that has developed and seems to control scientific opinion as either politically correct or not. Further that directly relates to the slush funds of money governments dole out bureaucratally in enormous amounts with implied demands to produce and produce correctly. Climategate proved that. Michael Mann's hockey stick is the best example. And his lab budget recently was $3.5 million a year!