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>From Science-Week, July 17:
COSMOLOGY: THE END OF THE OLD MODEL UNIVERSE
Cosmologists are apparently expecting the near-future necessity
for profound conceptual alterations in their field. Peter Coles
(University of London, UK) presents a short review of the current
situation and makes the following points:
1) Observations only recently made possible by improvements in
astronomical instrumentation have put theoretical models of
the Universe under intense pressure. The standard ideas of
the 1980s about the shape and history of the Universe have
now been abandoned -- and cosmologists are now taking
seriously the possibility that the Universe is pervaded by
some sort of "vacuum energy" whose origin is not at all
understood.
2) The weakness of the Big Bang model is that the numerical
values of certain essential parameters in the model (the
Hubble constant, the density parameter, and, in some
versions, the cosmological constant) are not predicted by
theory, and thus the parameters must be inferred from
observations.
3) The Big Bang model does not deserve to be called a "theory"
unless and until it can explain how nonuniformities of
galaxies and clusters of galaxies came into being and
evolved.
4) The Cold Dark Matter model of structure formation, first
proposed in the 1980s, is in serious difficulty because
the consequent significant gravitational break on expansion
is not evident, and in fact expansion may be accelerating.
Current observations coupled with current dynamical
arguments all suggest a global density of matter in the
Universe less than the value required to make the Universe
recollapse.
5) The existence of a cosmological constant (or vacuum energy)
of the required size necessary to make the basic cosmological
models work is not at all explained by current theories of
the fundamental interactions of matter.
6) There is every reason to be confident that the important
issues will soon be resolved, because a data explosion is
about to engulf cosmology, a new generation of galaxy
surveys. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, for example, will
encompass more than a million galaxies. The cosmological
community is bracing itself for the arrival of these
enormous new data sets and the new insights they will
surely bring.
7) It is possible that none of the available models will fit
all the new data. Coles concludes:
"For many of us, that is the most exciting possibility
of all, as we would have to move to stranger theories,
perhaps not even based on General Relativity."
QY: Peter Coles <p.coles@qmw.ac.uk>
(Nature 25 Jun 98 393:741) (Science-Week 17 Jul 98)
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Aether and its permutations will live again in science and lead to
wonders we can hardly imagine.
Just as all indications are that gravity can be reduced and even
cancelled, so too, can Gravitys opposite effect, the repellent force of
APERGY be increased to provide repulsion and thrust.
It must be so that the pressure of the aether flowing into masses to
produce what we call gravity MUST have an opposite force or condition.
This force is just now being recognized as from this quote;
"...they have detected the first strong evidence that the
universe is permeated by a repulsive force, the opposite
of gravity." from the URL that follows;
http://www.keelynet.com/gravity/push.htm
and of course which ties in with the entire 'push gravity' aether inflow
ideas of Walter Wright as explained at;
http://www.keelynet.com/gravity/wright.htm
Science advances funeral by funeral.
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