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"Sam Wormley" |
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03 Dec 2005 01:01:05 PM |
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Errors in the "The Big Bang Never Happened" |
Errors in the "The Big Bang Never Happened"
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/lerner_errors.html
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| User: "Mark Martin" |
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| Title: Re: Errors in the "The Big Bang Never Happened" |
03 Dec 2005 06:33:17 PM |
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Sam Wormley wrote:
Errors in the "The Big Bang Never Happened"
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/lerner_errors.html
Ah yes. I remember reading this book one day years ago. As I recall,
Lerner seemed much more interested in being famous by association (with
his dead friend, Nobel recipient Hans Alfven) than in any fairly
balanced evaluation of evidence. He had a BSc in physics, but he seemed
to have a rather uneducated understanding of the very issues he was
debunking. One thing in particular that sticks out is that he
criticised modeling particles as zero-dimensional points to be naive;
that surely particles had some dimensionality to them. He then
prodeeded to lambaste string theory for endowing particles with only
one dimension. He said something sarcastic to the effect of "Oh wow.
One whole dimension." Yet he never proposed why one dimension is too
few to be realistic. Too bad he's not here, on Usenet. He'd fit right
in.
-Mark Martin
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