by allynh » Sat Jan 28, 2023 2:56 am
Thanks for the article.
I remember most of that when it happened. I've watched everything diverge from reality since, and I do not know how to correct the divergence.
I have an odd feeling that Rubin was just one more step in the divergence, that some earlier event started everything, and it just snowballed from there.
I can see one earlier event with Shapley highjacking cosmology as I pointed out in one post, but he could not have done that without some even earlier event.
Harlow Shapley and the Great Debate
https://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/php ... =45#p47958
Some of the links have changed.
Great Debate (astronomy)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Debate_(astronomy)
I suspect it has to do with "perspective" and how everything changed with each event. See the "Arguments" section of the wiki page as example.
Each change in "perspective"; small universe to large universe, then Rubin's seeing that galaxies rotate as "disks" rather than follow Newton's Laws, then "consensus" voting that the universe was 13.75 billion light years, then "consensus" pushing "inflation", leaves people with nothing solid to stand on.
[quote="BeAChooser"]https://historyofyesterday.com/vera-rubin-proving-the-existence-of-dark-matter/[/quote]
Thanks for the article.
I remember most of that when it happened. I've watched everything diverge from reality since, and I do not know how to correct the divergence.
I have an odd feeling that Rubin was just one more step in the divergence, that some earlier event started everything, and it just snowballed from there.
I can see one earlier event with Shapley highjacking cosmology as I pointed out in one post, but he could not have done that without some even earlier event.
Harlow Shapley and the Great Debate
https://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1579&start=45#p47958
Some of the links have changed.
Great Debate (astronomy)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Debate_(astronomy)
I suspect it has to do with "perspective" and how everything changed with each event. See the "Arguments" section of the wiki page as example.
Each change in "perspective"; small universe to large universe, then Rubin's seeing that galaxies rotate as "disks" rather than follow Newton's Laws, then "consensus" voting that the universe was 13.75 billion light years, then "consensus" pushing "inflation", leaves people with nothing solid to stand on.