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Originally Posted by bojan
The problem with you Alex is, you are not placing the questions to get answers.. you are rejecting the answer even before you read it.
It was explained many times, that in order to reject something, one has to have the good understanding of what he/she is rejecting, and why.
Gut feeling is simply not enough here, those things are way out of our everyday experience (as put by Carl), and our brains, evolved to deal with other people and cave bears and everyday food and such petty matters, are not equipped with necessary "firmware" to comprehend things like inflation on intuitive basis.
What we have, luckily, is our ability for abstract thinking (is this a bug in our software?) , that can use formalised math structures (mind you, your visicalc or Supercalc or excel spreadsheet joggling is totally inadequate and un-fair comparison to what we have to deal with here).
But it takes a lot of time to develop those abilities in individuals. Some of us can't do it at all (which of course doesn't mean we are less worthy  .. we might be better in some other things, that those geeks can't do at all) |
Whilst I don't think Alex is "broken" and in need of fixing I loved your above post Bojan (Can I call you that ?). You reiterated my thinking to a tee !
Y'know, as an example for Alex, I just followed on reading Carl's suggested material (from my other thread about Supernova data) and suddenly I got that issue which Steven pointed out (about Hubble's Law violation) which I couldn't see a couple of nights ago. (Remember how I said I had more reading to do ? Well it suddenly hit me last night with a lot of clarity, too.
OK so there ya go Alex, if you hang in there and follow the thinking, even if its unpalatable, sometimes it all falls into place and clarity results.
I think mainstream Science Cosmology is full of this type of stuff because of the high degree of rigor and consistency applied to the creation of theory. I feel privileged to be able to experience this feeling.
Alternative thinking is fine by me, too. I do frequently find that the result is not not clarity though. I did read the other Alex's pages on Plasma/Electromag material. Sorry, that didn't work for me but that's Ok, as are (this) Alex's viewpoints.
Cheers