<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Bryan Bishop <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kanzure@gmail.com" target="_blank">kanzure@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Here is a funny little paper I stumbled into recently (after being tipped off about black hole skeptics):</div><div><br></div><div>"The calculations of general relativity on massive celestial bodies collapsing into singular black holes are wrong"</div><div><a href="http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/physics/astrophysics/The%20calculations%20of%20general%20relativity%20on%20massive%20celestial%20bodies%20collapsing%20into%20singular%20black%20holes%20are%20wrong.pdf" target="_blank">http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/physics/astrophysics/The%20calculations%20of%20general%20relativity%20on%20massive%20celestial%20bodies%20collapsing%20into%20singular%20black%20holes%20are%20wrong.pdf</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>"Cosmology should directly use the Doppler's formula to calculate the red shift of Ia supernova"<br></div><div><a href="http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/physics/astrophysics/Cosmology%20should%20directly%20use%20the%20Doppler's%20formula%20to%20calculate%20the%20red%20shift%20of%20Ia%20supernova.pdf" target="_blank">http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/physics/astrophysics/Cosmology%20should%20directly%20use%20the%20Doppler's%20formula%20to%20calculate%20the%20red%20shift%20of%20Ia%20supernova.pdf</a><br></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div><div class="gmail_extra">Yeah I'm definitely calling BS on the first two. I haven't stumbled across too much bogus physics but I've definitely heard it's out there, perhaps more likely than I thought because of selection bias.</div></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Anyway the reason I bring this up is because of the interesting SETI context, like:</div><div><a href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/1104.4362.pdf" target="_blank">http://arxiv.org/pdf/1104.4362.pdf</a><br></div><div><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">From the SETI paper: I like the idea of looking for civilizations not attempting to communicate with us. However, I don't understand the one about expanding from looking at our galaxy to looking at ones far distant in time and space. Do the XRBs from that distance penetrate to us and provide meaningful information? How can we identify an extragalactic intelligence at that scale unless the whole galaxy lights up with some radiation burst?</div><div>Connor </div></div>
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