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Re: Null Physics?

2008-07-23T14:06:07Z

Joe wrote:
> Just noticed in the latest Scientific American a 2
> page advertisement for a book, "Our Undiscovered
> Universe" subtitled "Introducing Null Physics".
> The book has a web site at
> [link].
> I'm no physicist but from looking at that web
> site- the subject/concept looks flakey. That's OK,

Null Physics?

2008-07-22T09:24:33Z

Just noticed in the latest Scientific American a 2 page advertisement for a
book, "Our Undiscovered Universe" subtitled "Introducing Null Physics". The
book has a web site at [link].
I'm no physicist but from looking at that web site- the subject/concept
looks flakey. That's OK, there's plenty of flakey scientists and non

Re: CMB temperature: cooling down or... heating up???

2008-06-06T19:40:57Z

<carlip-nos...@physics.ucdavis .edu> wrote in
I would consider the results presented in these papers as anything but
accurate. Most of the measurements presented in the first paper
(Srianand et al.) represent anyway only upper limits, and in addition
they use the COBE measurement of the present temperature to constrain

Two spiral arms go missing

2008-06-05T08:16:40Z

Here's an interesting press release:
[link]
Gorgeous map...
[link]
annotated.jpg
..
Regards

Re: Nibiru ecliptic event facts

2008-05-29T09:34:46Z

In article <mt2.0-24487-1211967...@hercul es.herts.ac.uk>,
There are no such events. Nibiru is a fantasy planet which does not exist.

{!!! SPAM ???} Re: Computing Upper-Limits for IRAS...

2008-05-29T09:35:32Z

To answer my own question:
[link]

Computing Upper-Limits for IRAS...

2008-05-28T09:39:41Z

Hello. I was wondering if someone would be so kind as to explain, or point
me to some reference that explains, how to determine the upper-limits for
censored objects in the IRAS surveys.
If I am not mistaken, the running rms was not kept track of because of the
limitations of the system then. So how does one get a good estimate of it?

Nibiru ecliptic event facts

2008-05-28T09:43:14Z

Seeking facts on sister solar system of Planet X (Nibiru) that will cross
our solar system's ecliptic by between February 2011 and March 2013. Also,
I am seeking astronomical coordinates of Nibiru as observed from position
36° 10'28.02"° N and 115° 14'49.955"°
Not interested in opinion of "what may come", but only interested to confirm

unnamed star cloud?

2008-05-26T05:44:07Z

This might sound presumptuous, but just in case it isn't:
On Google Sky I have run into something about which I believe that it
might exist, even though I have never heard about it before. And since
I don't know how to call it, I have provisionally dubbed it "Holm's
Cloud" (pardon, it's just for internal use). It appears to me as a

Re: "Fractal Cosmology" entry in Wikipedia

2008-05-21T09:14:59Z

On May 19, 10:22 am, "Nicolaas Vroom" <nicolaas.vr...@pandora.be>
wrote:
The graphic you mention shows one of the beautiful and thought-provoking
images from deep within the M-set. It is *not* meant to directly
represent any actual physical object found in nature. The author of the
Wikipedia addition probably chose it for aesthetic reasons and for a

[WWW] Request for Review of a pre-print book titled, "Fundamental Nature of

2008-05-21T09:09:24Z

Friends,
I have been taking part in various sci.physics discussion forums on
usenet for almost a decade now. Even though I found these discussions
quite useful, still I failed to communicate my viewpoint to most of
the readers. Perhaps, communication of a certain viewpoint in bits and
pieces cannot be expected to 'stick', to have any permanent

Re: "Fractal Cosmology" entry in Wikipedia

2008-05-19T14:22:46Z

"rlolders...@amherst.edu" <rlolders...@amherst.edu> schreef in bericht
Is this really such a breakthrough ?
At [link]
we read:
"In a wide variety of places, in fact almost anywhere they
look in the universe, people studying the heavens are
finding fractals or fractal-like structures."

Re: CMB temperature: cooling down or... heating up???

2008-05-16T08:58:31Z

Does your model predict anything about the past CMB
temperature? This can be measured -- for a very recent
and apparently quite accurate result, see the preprint
[link], or for a different method,
[link].
Steve Carlip

Re: CMB temperature: cooling down or... heating up???

2008-05-16T08:57:02Z

And further confirmation of CMBR cooling vs universe age:
[link]

Re: CMB temperature: cooling down or... heating up???

2008-05-16T08:57:45Z

In article <mt2.0-600-1210838...@hercules .herts.ac.uk>,
By coincidence, I just saw an ESO press release reporting a
measurement of the CMB temperature at redshift 2.4. At this
redshift, the lines measured are from CO, not CN, but the idea is the
same.
The press release is at
[link]