That's just plain not so. There's an active professional interest in interstellar gas clouds. It may be that people with 8" refractors offer "real hope" but...
Rolando, Please explain "beginner equipment" to me. I don't consider myself an expert astronomer and have only been pursuing the hobby recently. So I don't...
Dail; I believe that "beginners equipment" is more a category of what typical entry level astronomers choose to buy rather than a category of what they should...
... an ... been ... could ... out of ... order to ... There's nice stuff out there for everyone and for every pocket book. Do some digging, there's lots of...
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Rich, I guess the term beginner is just a pet peeve I have. I have seen people waste money on too many junk telescopes and eyepieces. I think it's better to...
... people ... better ... decided to ... category ... It's more like this: The original poster said "what's wrong with simpler equipment for visual" I say,...
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And finally, the full color version of Hallas M42. Interestingly, there are 8 tiny faint galaxies that shine through on the bottom right side. Rolando ... ...
"Seeing Red" "Quasars, Redshifts, and Controversies" enough said Black holes have taken the place of God, and science be damned. And the strange thing is, the...
Well, not sure what you meant by the "black holes/God" comment, but I agree about Mr. Arp's misguided tomes. However, at least for me, I have never seen a...
... Not at all. 30 years of string theory (utter and abject failure), inflation (utter failure), dark energy (utter failure), dark matter (failure), ignoring...
... that ... and it's ... Can you elaborate on why string theory, inflation, dark matter, and dark energy are utter failures? You can't really expect to hit a...
... String Theory doesn't even seem to meet a basic criteria of science in that there seems no way to test it. Anyone can weave weird theories, but if there...
This isn't the place to discuss it, but no, it cannot be tested, even in principle, because there is nothing to actually test. What one has is a perturbation...
I can only encourage you to read his books and judge for yourself. Arp has more kind words for amateurs than he does for professionals, because they are more...
... It certainly seems that the distribution of closely paired galaxies with differing redshifts can be explained simply by statistics. The fact that Arp's...
All that is necessary is to find ONE example so egregious that no one in his right mind would deny it. ALL of current cosmology is based on redshifts being...
... I don't find it too encouraging when someone promoting a view different from the widely accepted one simply dismisses everyone not sharing the view as...
Actually, except for dark matter and dark energy, for which there does seem to be some evidence of, I essentially with this man's stance against the other...
I agree - and we are so accustomed to trust those in academic science that a skeptical frame of mind is not only healthy, it is the only frame of mind to keep....
