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Kolmogorow
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Posted - 2007.12.11 18:06:00 -
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 Originally by: Friera
Currently writing the third chapter of an online book about spacetime, the behaviour of light, star formation etc.
Oh, sounds very cool! Are you willing to link that? Something for the boring times in EVE (hauling, exploration site scanning, etc.) to read in the background 
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Kolmogorow
Freedom Resources
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Posted - 2007.12.11 19:06:00 -
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Originally by: Night Doc
You should also notice that real distances are not the distances as we know due to the Space/Time Curves.
No curves in the universe on large scales. Everything is boring flat and spiceless.
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Kolmogorow
Freedom Resources
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Posted - 2007.12.12 22:26:00 -
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Originally by: Friera
Scale of the Universe and our Closest Neighbours
Nice to read overview except that all those numbers getting huger and huger made me dead, but I understand that was your intention  (Never heard from that "termination shock" but it let me immediately feel that I want a termination shock launcher )
This:
"...a supermassive black hole which is basically the glue which holds the galaxy together..."
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"...At the centre of the galaxy is a supermassive black hole exerting a huge amount of gravity which keeps all of the stars in the galaxy orbiting around it..."
is not correct, I think. Because (to my knowledge) the glue holding the galaxies together and stabilizing their rotation is not completely known and partially unvisible and therefore called "dark matter". Known is that the visible matter including the black holes in the galaxy centers don't produce enough gravity to explain the rotation curves and stability of galaxies. Something (or better: a lot) is missing (assuming the law of gravity doesn't change significantly on large scales, a theoretical alternative possibility to explain the observations which is out of serious discussion though as far as I know).
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Kolmogorow
Freedom Resources
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Posted - 2007.12.14 00:17:00 -
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Originally by: Chelone
Again, not saying I believe all the stuff on holoscience.com, but not all of the conclusions are interdependent. Forget the global warming link, the others are more interesting. I just think it brings up really interesting points about the electric nature of matter / behaviors of plasma, etc as alternate explanations for some cosmological effects, and how they aren't even considered.
At the end any theory and also this electric universe theory has to survive experiments and observations on a quantitative basis. I don't know to which detail the theory is developed in a mathematical framework allowing to make quantitative predictions. I have a little doubt about that considering how insistently the dominance of mathematics in modern science is attacked on the holoscience site.
What I saw on the site was a pure qualitative description how matter and the universe could be alternatively described and explained, maybe in a rough qualitative harmony with fundamental facts and observations and logically consistent. But that's not so much in my opinion and probably also the case in a sophisticated theory of the movement of Angels and the influence of God's hand.
A theory throwing away the science of 100 years (Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Stellar Dynamics, and so on and so on), claiming that thousands of scientists are running in a stupid herd, going back to 19th century physics and conjuring up the "common sense" as the most fundamental principle at all will (and should) have a hard time to be accepted. And it's far away from humility.
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