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Mysterious, ‘Dr X’ says Universe Is NOT Expanding: A Note from Joseph A. Olson

February 27, 2011 By Jospeh A. Olson

WHAT first began as ‘rumored’ science on conservative websites is now being reinforced by what can only be described as the foremost authority on the Expanding Universe.  The thought that there was a Non Expanding Theory has been introduced by a trained engineer, who has turned rogue astronomer.  The following quote from Dr X does add credibility to this challenge to eight decades of ‘settled’ science:

    Dr X has “admitted that the expanding universe might be an illusion, but
    implied that this was a cautious and colorless view.  Last week it was apparent that
    he had shifted his position even further away from a literal interpretation of red
    shift, that he now regards the expanding universe as more improbable than a
    non-expanding one.”

What gives this Dr X usurper, along with that engineer turned rogue astronomer, the right to challenge this cornerstone of modern astronomy ?

The identity of the mysterious Dr X is none other than “Mount Wilson Observatory’s brilliant Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble,” who with coworker Milton LaSalle Humason first observed the red-shift of light from distant stars.  Continuing, “It was assumed that the distant nebulae were retreating in all directions.”

One interesting fact is that this interview was for Time Magazine and was published as “Science: Shift on Shift” on Dec 14, 1936.  Here you have proof that the ‘father of the Expanding Universe Theory’ had misgivings just years after his 1929 disclosure.  Following the motto of P T Barnum, of “there’s a sucker born every minute” the existing ‘big science’ teams saw an unlimited opportunity to expand astronomy budgets.

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Filed Under: News, Opinion Tagged With: Philosophy, Physics

Big Bang Rebuttal, Part 1: A Note from Joseph A. Olson

February 24, 2011 By Jospeh A. Olson

SUPERSTITION has exerted a powerful force on human psyche and history.  Strengthened with a few facts, a superstition becomes accepted reality until new perceptions can reopen debate.  That is an exciting possibility in today’s Nouveau Renaissance.  Humanity’s new course needs a road sign: “Caution, Falling False Paradigms Ahead”.

Climategate has shown that even the most well funded science can be wrong.  All objective, science trained minds have left the Global Warming station.  Well meaning scientists are already doing damage assessments and future hazard avoidance studies.  It is now a perfect time to reassess another possibly defective theory on the origin of the universe.

Celestial Spheres

The ‘Flat Earth Theory’ required an explanation of cyclic visible planetary movements of the then know members of our solar system.  The Sun rose over the Earth everyday in a predictably variable pattern.  The moon waxed and waned between full and new.  The inner orbit planets, Mars and Venus arose predictably and briefly as morning or evening stars.  The outer planets, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn crossed the complete sky and then disappeared for long and varying periods of time.

Fourteenth century scientists struggled to explain these readily observable events and attempted to explain them as nested spheres, driven by great gears, which were below the flat Earth and thus invisible.  Mechanical clocks were just then being perfected and animated character clocks made this seem plausible to the masses.

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Filed Under: History, News, Opinion Tagged With: Philosophy, Physics

Thomas Kuhn on Novelty and Expectation

February 11, 2011 By jennifer

The Harvard trained physicist and famous philosopher and historian of science, Thomas Kuhn, often refers to a psychological experiment in his book ‘The Structure of Scientific Revolutions’ whereby individuals fail to notice individual anomalous cards within a deck.   

The experiment illustrates the extent to which people can struggle when they are confronted with information that does not accord with what they have been taught. 

Kuhn suggests the experiment demonstrates the nature of the mind and also the process of scientific discovery. 

He has written:

‘In science, as in the playing card experiment, novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.’

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Filed Under: News, Opinion Tagged With: Philosophy

On Abandoning the Scientific Method, Continued

January 16, 2011 By jennifer

 In his 2005 book entitled ‘A Big Fix: Radical solutions for Australia’s environmental crisis’ Ian Lowe suggests that the global environmental situation is so desperate we abandon the traditional scientific method in favor of sustainability science.

Professor Lowe explains that sustainability science differs fundamentally from most science as we know it: ‘The traditional scientific method is based on sequential phases of inquiry, conceptualising the problem, collecting data, developing theories, then applying the results. … Sustainability science will have to employ new methods, such as semi-quantitative modelling of qualitative data, or inverse approaches that work backwards from undesirable consequences to identify better ways to progress’. 

This is really the ‘Chicken Little Principle’. If I say the sky is falling, then there is no time to go through the normal rigor of the scientific method, because by that time, the sky will have fallen.

Now Kevin Trenberth, a lead author of the IPCC reports and key protagonist in the Climategate emails, is suggesting climate scientists abandon the null hypothesis.

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Filed Under: News, Opinion Tagged With: Philosophy

Christmas is for Atheists too: Chrys Stevenson

December 26, 2010 By jennifer

“Despite its name, Christians don’t own Christmas. The celebration of the winter solstice is a European cultural inheritance that’s been purloined by the Christian branch of our global family. I say it’s high time we non-theists contested the Will. Winter festivals were a feature of European pagan calendars long before Christ. Christianity cannot claim exclusive ownership of most of our seasonal rituals.

Many of the traditions we associate with Christmas festivities pre-date Christ by hundreds or even thousands of years, reaching back to ancient Babylon. Gift-giving, feasting, adorning the house with greenery and lights, and singers chorusing door to door all date back to these ancient pagan rites…

And, what is the atheist’s purpose in celebrating Christmas?

Read more here: http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=11375

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: Philosophy

Market Research and Unhealthy Rivers: David Boyd

December 18, 2010 By jennifer

The market researchers/analysts tell me that you wont win a “counter-intuitive” argument. Because people have been conditioned by repetitive claims of a particular point of view, to forthrightly state the opposite is likely to be dismissed out of hand. So they advise coming at the issue in a more subtle or different way. Sorry,but I am just not built that way! I like to think that I seek after truth and get emotionally upset when I see claims that I regard as untruthful. I do understand that there are deep philosophical arguments about what is truth, but let’s keep it simple.

The debate about our inland rivers is a good example. It seems to me that the (conditioned) starting point for most commentators is that it is taken as a given that “our rivers are unhealthy and that this is due to taking too much water out of them”. The MDB Plan certainly starts from that accepted position. I think that both the lack of health and the excessive extraction claims, are untrue. (And this is where your counter-intuition is triggered and I’ve lost you!) But, please read on…

at David Boyd’s Blog

Filed Under: News, Opinion Tagged With: Drought, Floods, Murray River, Philosophy

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