There is so much to try and understand even with the areas that we consider absolutely nailed down and indeed one must be patient to work thru stuff that presents huge problems even to the experts who understand their subject at the highest level.
I will not think less of you because you hint at addiction or obsession issues
for as I said I have been obsessional in the past about Le SAge gravity and the prospect of a steady state universe alternative being ruled out too early. Everyone has problems and there is no problem in that.
Some of my concerns that physics has raised many questions that remain in the too hard basket is reasonable and a short list can be found here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ems_in_physics
There are other places where one can get a better run down on the matters we still have questions about but I think you will better understand "where I come from" but more importantly " where I am determined to arrive" ....my style is aggressive and disrespectful which I understand is confronting but I am not really aggressive or disrespectful...I respect all things, all people and all life as hard as that may be to accept.
So having labored under the misapprehension that I lived in an age where all is understood to find that our cutting edge of science still has a mountain of problems to resolve leaves me confused and not confident as to what is solid ground... what will we do if it becomes clear the search for the HB was in vain... how much of our science will need changing...frighting dont you think? Fortunately science will move forward irrespective of the result because we will know more what can be and what will never be...thats science ..great isnt it?
My rants about gravity are indeed an expression of the frustration that the most fundamental of all the forces and presumably the engine of the universe is still beyond the understanding of humans. Our most recent step forward with gravity produced GR but in truth it does not take us a long way given we still use Newtonian physics for our space craft etc.
I find the fact that there are voids out there fascinating... I read of a void that was determined to be some 500 billion light years across... is that true..well one has to rely on many things one cant personally satisfy oneself about but my point is if such a report is valid then considering why such things are out there is very interesting... why should this be so..how does it relate to BBT and other observations... is such a void really empty or does EME penetrate, are they places as you say similar to a black hole in so far as things may work very differently to our human experience and what else may we find...so finally one can ask is there anything we can call nothing or is there something in all places.
I would have thought EME would pass thru a void in a straight path as you assume..subject as you say to the overall expansion of space and what factors may influence the course of least resistance..geowhatever
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When you posted on the latest research on "nothing" I really became excited because the concept of nothing I find interesting... mind you I am surprised their conclusion seemed to say that nothing does exist.
alex
