This paper, published yesterday, questions whether type 1A supernovae actually have constant brightness. If this is the case, one of the original justifications for the existence of dark energy may have to be reconsidered.
The others are right. Not slowing. We assumed gravity would slow it down and maybe even reverse it but the opposite is true. The expansion is accelerating. One of those big mysteries. We don’t know why but we gave the cause a label anyway. Dark Energy. Might as well have called it Batman or Ether. We don’t have much of a clue what it is yet.
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Same goes for the sciencediditists.
This mendacious caricature of scientific methodology just makes you look dishonest, or extremely stupid, or both of course. Your trolling is becoming more and more obvious now, you might want to tread carefully, as fake deities can also fall foul of the rules here.
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Was the mendacity of the above reply, merely an incidental side effect of ignorance, or deliberate?
Once again some elementary concepts are applicable here, which I’ve already covered at length on these forums in numerous threads, but which you apparently lacked the diligence to track down and learn from.
Item one: what scientists actually postulate, is that testable natural processes, involving well-defined entities and interactions, are responsible for us and our surroundings. This has already been established to be the case for vast classes of real world observables, and consequently, we have evidence for testable natural processes by the supertanker load, as documented in exquisite detail in several million peer reviewed scientific papers.
Those scientific papers include a few million published within the discipline of physics, so your snide, condescending dismissal fails on this basis alone.
Item two: when testable natural processes are found to besufficient to explain real world observables, as has already been established, then cartoon magic men from pre-scientific mythologies are superfluous to requirements and irrelevant.
Item three: by contrast, we have ZERO evidence for any of the myriad of cartoon magic entities, that are merely asserted to exist in the numerous mythologies that humans have concocted throughout pre-scientific history. That includes whatever mythology happens to be your favourite choice.
In the case of the army of American creationists that routinely besieige this site with their garbage, they have had 2,000 years to provide even an atom of genuine evidence for their cartoon magic man, and have FAILED DISMALLY to deliver. As a corollary, ALL their assertions about this entity, can be safely discarded and tossed into the bin, with the same absence of effort they exerted in presenting them.
Their choice of Bronze Age mythology isn’t “evidence” for their cartoon magic man, it’s evidence solely for the propensity of its piss-stained nomad authors to make shit up. Such as that cretinous bilge about genetics being controlled by coloured sticks, an assertion that was utterly destroyed by a 19th century monk, when he launched modern genetics as a properly constituted scientific discipline.
Likewise, ex recto apologetic fabrications that an astute child would point and laugh at, aren’t “evidence” for their cartoon magic man, they’re evidence for the desperation and duplicity of the pedlars thereof.
Third, we and our surroundings aren’t “evidence” for magic poofing by their cartoon magic man, they’re evidence for testable natural processes, as I covered in Items One and Two above.
Item four: mythology fanboys cannot agree with each other, on a global scale, which of the numerous mythologies that humans have invented, is purportedly the “right” mythology. Likewise, adherents of a particular mythology cannot agree among themselves, what said mythology is purportedly telling us.
Yet, on the basis of this rampant anti-consilience, the same mythology fanboys posture as being in a position to dictate to the rest of us, what we should think and how we should live. While frequently violating the very precepts they impose upon the rest of us.
Item five: in the case of Abrahamic mythology, fanboys thereof spent 1,500 years in Europe, enforcing conformity thereto via brutal means, torturing and murdering anyone who didn’t conform to doctrine. If that doctrine possessed any merit in its own right, this barbarity would have been superfluous to requirements, and the mythology in question would have been adopted by consent rather than through coercion. Likewise, if that mythology had any genuine merit, its assertions would have been found to be in accord with reality, instead of clashing violently therewith. See my above remarks on the “coloured sticks” nonsense as an example of this clash.
Now, I suggest you read the above carefully, and learn from it.
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