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Originally Posted by jamini
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To explore alternatives and to express the notion we should take nothing for granted, even if the best scientists all agree otherwise.
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summed up very nicely, VanderL
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Except it's not really saying anything. Alternatives to what? Who are the "best scientists"? What are they all agreeing on? What are we taking for granted? |
1. Alternatives to mainstream theories.
2. The best scientists are the ones publishing all of their papers in respected journals and being the most referenced by other scientists and being most frequently quoted in the press (Nobel laureates come to mind, but those are rare).
3. They all agree on Big Bang theory (theories) as the best explanation (approximation?) of the Universe.
4. There are many things taken for granted, for example, we take for granted that redshift means distance and we take for granted that when seemingly solid theories predict something, it must be real.
Btw, the point was not to argue specific examples (to answer Nereid's suggestion), merely make the point that we should be cautious with the theories in astronomy and astrophysics.
Cheers.