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Old 30-June-2002, 01:13 AM
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Richard J. Hanak:

That was fun (elaborately, elegantly, and playfully silly) to read. But science is not a game.

Actually, Kaptain K got to a great part of the problem before I did with the fact that Centrifugal Force is NOT A FORCE but is INERTIA (the LACK OF A FORCE). That just throws everything you have written into the cosmic junk yard. Delightful cosmic junk yard, nevertheless.

In addition, the universe is not only expanding, but is observed as ACCELERATING in its expansion. So, one should match observation with calculation (as has been done by the use of Type 1a Supernovae and Redshift, etc., by the Supernova Cosmology Project and the High-Z Supernova Search Team, et al.).

Science is so much more interesting (and meaningful) than verbal silliness, however, so reading your delightful farce, being wonderful nonsense, was pleasant only for a short while.

The late, great Richard Feynman often spoke and wrote about *the pleasure of finding things out.* It beats verbal fiction every time. One needs to be careful about selecting the proper tools for discovery.

However, I am still laughing. Cosmological silliness can be an art in itself.

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