barrington interview

Jeffery Wilson clueland.com · 16 Oct 2014, 05:58 · from 2014-October.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeffery Wilson clueland.com)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 00:58:48 -0500
Subject: (urth) barrington interview
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On 10/14/2014 1:24 PM, Dave Lebling wrote:
>> Why would observations made in this tiny corner be presumed to apply to all other corners?
>
> We have made observations that extend throughout the electromagnetic
> spectrum in wavelength and in distance/time almost as far back as the
> Big Bang and thus an equivalent number of light-years away. That is not
> a "tiny corner." We have seen no evidence that the laws of physics are
> different anywhere in the universe.


Well, other than "dark matter", a concept invented to explain the 
discrepancy between the amount of mass in other galaxies observed by 
quantity of radiation vs that observed by apparent gravitation.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >

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