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bobspringett 09-Jun-25, 15:51	Shiva (recent) I accept all your points. However, the extrapolations worry me. I'll give an example. Let us consider a survey of all stars within 100,000 light-years of us. The overwhelming majority of these are in a rotating swarm. Not just 60%, but well over 90% of a population of billions. Is this not very persuasive evidence that the universe as a whole is rotating? Actually, it's only evidence that the Milky Way is rotating. However large the volume surveyed, experience in Astronomy suggests that we might be doing nothing more than discovering the next level of structure in out 'local' space rather than a sampling of the universe at a truly homogeneous, isotropic level. But on the other hand, this extrapolation might well be valid. If it is, then Apatzer's Hypothesis will get some solid support. I have no dog in this fight. I just warn that when we are talking about the properties of the universe IN ITS ENTIRETY, then the inherent limits to our ability to make observations that can be reliably extrapolated to the scale required becomes a huge obstacle.
lord_shiva 09-Jun-25, 15:59	I Always Said the galaxy rotates, the universe doesn’t. Now not only is AM in retreat, the universe itself might be rotating. If it is, BB is suddenly deeply problematic, despite the vast volume of evidence in support of it, such as baryonic acoustical oscillations. I’ve been brushing up on BAO, and ran across galactic baryon ratios. Ratio to what? Because electrons and baryons are all the mass there is. Well, neutrinos maybe. We know they have mass, but also neutrino distribution seems uniform, perhaps. Otherwise the universe sloshes. Ratio to dark matter, which makes like 20%, give or take.
vanessashane 15-Jun-25, 12:33	Lord Shiva Just as a small note, dark matter has mass as well. The apparent dark matter haloes of galaxies definitely affect the galaxies' rotation, and there are examples of light 'bending' around invisible masses which can only be explained by collections of non-electromagnetically sensitive matter. The Lambda-CDM model (the best we've got at the moment) and its implications for nucleosynthesis (en.wikipedia.org) rules out baryonic dark matter.
lord_shiva 15-Jun-25, 13:10	Dark Matter IS Mass It just isn’t electromagnetic, or interacts only very weakly with the electromagnetic interaction. Unless things besides mass exert gravitational influence. I’ve always used mass and matter interchangeably, and refer to electromagnetic and non electromagnetic mass. No doubt we are going to need better language as our understanding improves.
lord_shiva 15-Jun-25, 13:11	On the Origin of the Elements Did I ever send you my book?
vanessashane 15-Jun-25, 15:58	re: On the Origin of the Elements No, you didn't. I'm interested.
lord_shiva 15-Jun-25, 16:02	On the Origin of the Elements Bob generously helped with some editing, but I’ve made a number of revisions since then and plan a few more. I will send you the latest to Gmail in the next week—I’m always spurred to write by imagining a decent audience.
lord_shiva 15-Jun-25, 16:04	Shoulder Pain I don’t know what I did, but right now I’m in a lot of pain in my right shoulder. Pretty sure hauling feed sacks for my sister did not wrench it. Possibly I just slept wrong?
vanessashane 15-Jun-25, 16:12	re: Shoulder Pain Sleeping wrong? Lord Shiva, I can throw out my neck and/or shoulder just by THINKING wrong.
bobspringett 15-Jun-25, 16:35	Shiva 13:11 <On the Origin of the Elements> So now Darwinism is taking over atomic physics? Another transparent Atheist plot to avoid admitting that God made the elements! Why is the whole world going crazy about Evolution? I have even read that linguists talk of languages 'evolving', like English evolving from some common ancestor with Low German through a series of intermediate steps. Of course, that's rubbish. One generation spoke an ancient version of Low German. The next generation spoke a completely new language that might have looked and sounded like their parents' language, but was in fact a totally new language. And then the grandchildren did the same, etc. So there was no 'evolution' of one language into another, but there was a Special Creation of a new language for each of those intermediate generations.
lord_shiva 15-Jun-25, 16:42	Missed the Ark Close, but no cigar. God confounded all the languages at the Tower of Babel fiasco. Low German, Middle High German, Valleyspeak, Mandarin, Cantonese, Shoshone, Paiute—all these were created simultaneously over six days of language scaffolding, and it is pure happenstance Finnish closely resembles the other Scandinavian tongues. I wish Stalhandske was here to extol on Finnish, Jumalauta!
apatzer 21-Jun-25, 10:16	Neil deGrasse Tyson Are we in a black hole? youtu.be
lord_shiva 26-Jun-25, 08:14	Mystery Explained In the two slit experiment, light seems to “know” you’re going to try to detect which slit it chose to travel through even long after the fact (where galactic lenses might serve as the slit). This answers how light “knows,” given it propagates all possible paths. www.youtube.com
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