https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.11237
I made some comments on this paper in a thread at CF that you can find here:
https://www.christianforums.com/threads ... e.8043450/
The author of the SN1A paper unfortunately or fortunately (David/us) decided to discuss his paper on Cosmoquest. Jerry is the only individual participating in the thread to post anything actually on topic about the paper. Most of the rest of the questions that were put to David at CQ are irrelevant to the content of the paper, and just relate to the whole childish Inquisition routine at CQ. For Jerry's heroic efforts to summarize David's paper for the CQ audience, he was also threatened by the mods for daring to engage in an open and honest dialog on the topic.
https://forum.cosmoquest.org/showthread ... rse-static
The most telling aspect of the Cosmoquest thread is that the conversation has been going on for over a week now, and not a single critic at CQ has even cited a specific statement in David's paper to discuss yet. I smell fear.
This issue looks to be another one of those 'dirty little secrets' of the SN1A data sets. Without overtly 'futzing' with the raw data, it fits perfectly with a static universe/tired light explanation for photon redshift, without time dilation. Only when they 'futz' with the filtering models, and mathematical models can they make claims about time dilation, but it also skews the data out of whack at the higher redshifts. The "hostility" toward CQ citizen Jerry seems to be related to the sensitive nature of this issue, not because Jerry wasn't the consummate professional scientist for trying to recap David's work and cite the problem discussed in the paper.
I haven't been able to pick out a problem in David's work, and apparently neither have any of the mainstream regulars over at Cosmoquest. That lack of any specific criticism of David's paper says a lot about the quality of the paper.
In the CF thread I answered most of the superfluous Cosmoquest inquisition questions for David in case anyone cares.
This could turn out to be a devastating revelation about SN1A data sets for the mainstream if this issue 'gets out'. I suspect they'll burn him at the stake and/or tell him that he cannot discuss it beyond 30 days.
