Re: Recreating people [was: renaissance people]

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Mon May 15 2000 - 20:46:11 MDT


On Mon, 15 May 2000, Dan Adams wrote:

>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_746000/746066.stm
> - This is the one that demonstrates the compostition.

I liked the quote:
 "That's probably the most interesting result of all these experiments,"
  Hanany said. "New physics may be required to explain this."
  [in discussing the "dark energy"]

Some related pages seem to suggest that the "dark energy" is
the vacuum energy flux.

>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_727000/727073.stm#
> - This one demonstrates that the geometry is Euclidean

"suggests" would be a better word.

>
> "The best explanation for the observations requires
> that over large distances gravity becomes a repulsive
> force, not an attractive one."
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_506000/506349.stm
>

I think I've seen this before. But I've yet to see a scientific
article that explains sufficiently how a repulsive force explains
the variation in the CMB. The explanation I usually see for that
is early inflation.

If the CMB and SN results both suggest there is a repulsive force,
that that would be a very interesting result.

If you want links to the more scientific papers (you need subscriptions
to Science and/or Nature to access most of them), see:

http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/Astronomy/DarkMatterRefs.html

Robert



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