
30-May-2006, 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by TomT
Hi Nereid,
In response to my question on how did I get dragged in (invited) into this thread, you replied:
Well, OK, but, in the Arp et al, thread, I thought we agreed to stick to one subject at a time, and discuss it in depth. You were part of orchestrating that decision. So we have had a scholarly discussion there IMHO on the topic of evidence of bridges between discordant redshift objects. This was to my liking because I have said more than once that "if you truly want to disprove Arp, you have to demonstrate that his observations, and his conclusions about connections between discordant redshift objects, are in error". We have had a good discussion of this subject, and again IMHO, Arp's contention that physical connections exist between highly different redshift objects is alive and well. In view of your absence from the discussion and your statement below, I conclude that you either agree, or cannot find fault with the arguments.
TomT
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Since when is it anyone's responsibility to 'disprove' Arp? The burden of proof is not upon the skeptics [like me], it is upon Arp to convince the unwashed masses he is right. Well, he has failed. After searching the universe far and wide, he has only one very controversial example to cling to. Sounds pretty desperate to me. Why has Arp not applied his considerable statistical prowess to explain why there are so few examples of such extraordinarily unlikely alignments?
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