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Strictly speaking this means that mathematicians have been unable to find a way to accurately pinpoint a location in three-dimensional space and are always forced to incorporate cumbersome correcting calculations for spacecraft once they begin to approach their destinations.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
The calculations may indeed be cumbersome . . .
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Originally posted by buddhasystem
The calculations may indeed be cumbersome . . .
The purpose of innovation is to move on.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Originally posted by buddhasystem
The calculations may indeed be cumbersome . . .
The purpose of innovation is to move on.
Originally posted by SoulVisions
Originally posted by Spiratio
Originally posted by SoulVisions
Originally posted by Spiratio
Dark matter is theorised to exist because we observe an effect but it cannot be measured.
Originally posted by SoulVisions
That's like saying wind doesn't exist.
Originally posted by Spiratio
How so? Wind is observable and measurable.
lol... that was my point, Spiratio. We can't "see" wind, but we know that it's there and are able to measure it's effect. The same as the elusive "dark matter" that we can't "see." In time we'll know more, but for now, in this way, it's comparable to wind, gravity, and other "mysteries" that puzzled scientists/theorists of old.
No, i was pointing out that wind is measurable as well as observable. Dark matter is observable but not measurable...in both instances its known that the phenomena exist... so how does saying "that's like saying wind does't exist" prove any point I'm sorry but your logic baffles me.
Wow, I watch your responses on these threads. You looooooove to argue. You absolutely can not stand it if someone tells you that you are wrong, can you?
On topic? Yes, you can measure dark matter. We've spent millions doing it even. You're not only disagreeing with me on this, you're disagreeing with the entire modern science community if you take the time to investigate the issue. I wish you luck.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
reply to post by Americanist
I'll see your (apparently random?) piece of artwork and raise you another piece of artwork which isn't completely random:
reply to post by Americanist
Originally posted by Americanist
As soon as I saw the number map I realized the Universe is an assembly based on fractal patterns.
blogs.nature.com...
I want to save this file to my pc and I need a filename. How about this for a filename?
"I realized the universe is an asembly based on fractal patterns.jpg"
Do I need your permission to use that filename? If I can't have it, I think I'll just call it "everything's fractal.jpg", I don't think that's copyrighted yet.
edit on 4-2-2012 by Arbitrageur because: added link
Originally posted by Spiratio
Regarding dark matter you cannot actually measure the essence of it... I know that there have been something along the line of time-lapsed photos of the divergence of galaxies to measure its estimated speed of propagation in expansion of the cosmos, but there are no devices to measure it as a field.
It's beyond our tangible processors.
I looked at your link...and you said you're not promoting a religious point of view, but you realize the views of the authors posting on that site would like us to believe the Earth is 6000 years old? Regardless of your religion, don't you think that impacts the source's credibility?
Originally posted by Spiratio
Look at the link - My words were allegorical when I said timelaps-like
Prior to this paper, modified gravity models might have had some possibilities, but I've seen no modified gravity models which can explain this result.
An 8-sigma significance spatial offset of the center of the total mass from the center of the baryonic mass peaks cannot be explained with an alteration of the gravitational force law, and thus proves that the majority of the matter in the system is unseen
Originally posted by Spiratio
Now of coarse
Which is why it is a waste of time to try and estimate it, they'l never have relative measurement to the present moment.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
I looked at your link...and you said you're not promoting a religious point of view, but you realize the views of the authors posting on that site would like us to believe the Earth is 6000 years old? Regardless of your religion, don't you think that impacts the source's credibility?
Originally posted by Spiratio
Look at the link - My words were allegorical when I said timelaps-like
To see a specific credibility problem with your source, look at the source I posted on this post in page 183, which debunks the modified theory of gravity your creationist source is apparently trying to promote:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
A direct empirical proof of the existence of dark matter
Prior to this paper, modified gravity models might have had some possibilities, but I've seen no modified gravity models which can explain this result.
An 8-sigma significance spatial offset of the center of the total mass from the center of the baryonic mass peaks cannot be explained with an alteration of the gravitational force law, and thus proves that the majority of the matter in the system is unseen
Originally posted by Spiratio
what we see of galaxies from the huble cannot tell us the content of the current dark matter/energy and light matter energy ratio, only what it was in the past. Which is why it is a waste of time to try and estimate it, they'l never have relative measurement to the present moment.
How do you define the present? Everything we see is in the past. Some things happened further in the past than others.
Originally posted by Spiratio
I'm not saying the data inst useful in understanding the wider picture (pun not intended), but its pointless in the context of the original endeavour, to measure dark energy and matter as a means to conclude implications for the present..
Originally posted by Spiratio
Your allegories are also pointless.
Originally posted by Spiratio
reply to post by Spiratio
The above post is not a conclusion of my own experiments or opinion...it is a conclusion of what scientists have inferred of which I came across through researching websites that cite scientific organisations. Directing incredulity at me is not in context.
Look at the link - My words were allegorical when I said timelaps-like
edit: my exact words were "along the line of time-lapsed photos". Notice this does not infer that I am stating that thats exactally what their method is, just that its similar to time-lapse photography, same as as my sentence above this interjected "edit". Sure it may be a different wording to my original words but they imply the same thing as my original intention. This is another example of how boxed in adherents like yourself are, that you read others words as you want to read them (so as to argue) and not as how the words are truly intended...which can be understood by anyone who has the ability to reason outside of the confines of one specific perspective [edit]
Now of coarse what we see of galaxies from the huble cannot tell us the content of the current dark matter/energy and light matter energy ratio, only what it was in the past. Which is why it is a waste of time to try and estimate it, they'l never have relative measurement to the present moment.edit on 4-2-2012 by Spiratio because: (no reason given)
The term scotoma is also used metaphorically in psychology to refer to an individual's inability to perceive personality traits in themselves that are obvious to others.
what we see of galaxies from the huble cannot tell us the content of the current dark matter/energy and light matter energy ratio, only what it was in the past.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
Originally posted by Spiratio
Now of coarse
What is "of coarse"? Is it coarse versus fine?
Which is why it is a waste of time to try and estimate it, they'l never have relative measurement to the present moment.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
How do you define the present? Everything we see is in the past. Some things happened further in the past than others.
Originally posted by Spiratio
I'm not saying the data inst useful in understanding the wider picture (pun not intended), but its pointless in the context of the original endeavour, to measure dark energy and matter as a means to conclude implications for the present..
If you use your argument that astronomical observations are in the past and don't affect the present, then why are you citing sources which mention them at all? You don't have any astronomical data in the present, right?
Frankly you're not making much sense by quoting sources which are based on astronomical observations, and then stating that they are irrelevant to the present.
So this is the way you explain why you're linking to sources citing astronomical observations on the one hand, and then claiming astronomical observations are irrelevant on the other hand because they show past rather than present events?
Originally posted by Spiratio
They must pay you allot to write this stuff, either that or your prone to loosing the plot