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Plenty of cults exist - every cult has its 'religious dogma', its idols, its 'prophets', its 'science', its 'proof' and its intolerant liturgy of demands. Cults everywhere: Corona, 'The Science' or Scientism, Islam, the State, the cult of Gender Fascism, Marxism, Darwin and Evolution, Globaloneywarming, Changing Climate, Abortion...
Tempus Fugit Memento Mori - Time Flies Remember Death
“Dark matter makes up most of the universe. It’s not made out of atoms. Your chemistry teacher was wrong in saying that the universe is mainly made out of atoms…. Whole generations of textbooks have now had to be thrown out….It’s invisible. You cannot photograph dark matter. We know it’s there because of its gravitational presence.” (Michio Kaku, Parallel Universes)
Feel that religion. Apostle Michio, one of the more excitable and luminous of Big Bang and string-theory evangelists, says we cannot identify, discover or even confirm Dark Matter, but it exists, because it must exist to hold the universe together and make up the missing energy density from Big Bang models. I am sure Apostle Michio is well-compensated for his dogmatic sermonising.
The self-proclaimed geniuses say no to atoms and no to molecules. Even though both can be observed. Apostle Michio and ‘The Science’ say yes to a mysterious ‘miasma’ that remains undiscovered. No religion here. Just ‘The Science’.
In the previous post we discussed why Dark Energy was a mathigician fraud. The same is true of its mysterious, never found twin brother, Dark Matter. Neither impress the sane or critical. More here.
“Many cosmologists advocate reviving [Einstein’s] cosmological constant term on theoretical grounds, as a way to explain the rate of expansion of the universe….The main attraction of the cosmological constant term is that it significantly improves the agreement between theory and observation….
For example, if the cosmological constant today comprises most of the energy density of the universe, then the extrapolated age of the universe is much larger than it would be without such a term, which helps avoid the dilemma that the extrapolated age of the universe is younger than some of the oldest stars we observe!” (NASA, often confused with a film agency, “Dark Energy: A Cosmological Constant?” http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/ uni_matter.html)
But
“Additionally, we must take seriously the idea that the acceleration apparently indicated by supernova data could be due to large scale inhomogeneity with no dark energy. Observational tests of the latter possibility are as important as pursuing the dark energy (exotic physics) option in a homogeneous universe.… because of the foundational nature of the Copernican Principle for standard cosmology, we need to fully check this foundation.
And one must emphasize here that standard CMB anisotropy studies do not prove the Copernican principle: they assume it at the start……then uses some form of observationally-based fitting process to determine its basic parameters” (“Inhomogeneity effects in Cosmology,” George F. R. Ellis, March 14, 2011, University of Cape Town, pp. 19, 5; http://arxiv.org/pdf/1103.2335.pdf).
The confusionists and ‘science’. NASA and its deep state-financed organs of ‘the science’ maintain that ‘dark energy’ must be real or else they are faced with a younger universe. Observational evidence pace Ellis in the 2nd quote, indicates that dark energy is a phantasm, premised on philosophical foundations and biases.
“…do not prove the Copernican principle: they assume it at the start.”
Indeed, philosophy and tautology inform interpretations. The mathigicians can now enter and perform their necromancy. The graphic designers and image propagandists will then take over and assemble the evocative pictures and visualisations. They will have a line pointing to a black area on an image with the notation ‘Black Hole here’. Another arrow will connect to a region on the image and name it ‘Dark Energy’. You will be convinced. More here
"That the earth is a sphere is shown by the fact that as one goes south the stars of the northern constellations appear to sink down, and those of the south to rise higher; and also by the fact that the shadow of the earth, as cast on the moon in eclipses, is circular." (Aristotle, On the Heavens)
Aristotle’s observations are correct and confirmed. He offers 3 good reasons why this planet is a spheroid, and these are discussed below.
The ‘Enlightenment’ based its animus against the ‘Schoolmen’ on the idea that the medieval era ‘slavishly followed’ Aristotle. Unlike the Muslims and Arabs, the European medieval scholars did not. Beginning in the 12th century, Christians translated, analysed, experimented with, and eventually overturned, Aristotlelian physics.
However, some astronomical observations made by Aristotle, or the ‘teacher’, some 2500 years ago, are entirely valid and these informed medieval and early modern astronomy. There is nothing ‘dark’ about that. Use what works. Reject what does not. Given the vast quantity of Aristotle’s work, this analysis does take time.
The Flat Earth question is related to Relativity and some of the topics we have analysed in over 100 posts on the Einstein-fraud. Essentially, much of ‘science’ is about philosophy and the filtering, interpreting and modelling of phenomena through world-views and agendas. The same applies to how Flat Earthers ingest and transform experiential data and observations. More here