Salutatio Dennis!
10-Mar-98, Dennis Menard wrote to Richard Meic
          Subject: Re: Time and Again
 RM>> I do not find this statement very accurate, because what has
 RM>> actually been happening is they observe, conclude, then look for
 RM>> support for their conclusion.  That is a far stretch form
 RM>> observing, theorizing,
 DM> Forgive me for this brief interruption, Richard:
You have done nothing that requires forgiveness.  This is public.  :)
 DM> Latest observations indicate expansion of the universe is
 DM> `accelerating!' It is easy enough to check out; all major news
 DM> sources carried the story.
POINT 1:
I realize that.  But at the same time observations indicate that a huge
portion of the universe is heading off in an unexpected direction,
throwing universal expansion theory out of wack.
 DM> The first effect of this information is the resurrection, wholly
 DM> intact, of Einstein's long deceased `cosmological constant' and
 DM> the possibility of that `UNlooked for' and `UNexpected' spectre of
 DM> the mythological `5th force.'
Likely a last ditch effort to save a failing expansion theory, IMO.  The
cosmological constant has been discarded as a number crunching method to
make theory match observation more closely.  They're getting scared,
IOW.
 DM> How is your preferred cosmological view coping, with this new
 DM> information? I realise, of course, the new data is only a week
 DM> old.
The data that supports POINT 1: is older and still holds.  Do you think
that I get nervous when the expansionists begin clawing for straws to
save a theory in trouble?  Nah, I wait.  ;)
 Dicere...
 email address (vrmeic@nucleus.com)
Richard Meic
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