Cosmology's Biggest Sceptic - Most of Our Universe is Missing - Horizon - BBC

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1. You know, a spell checker can only help an illiterate moron out so much. "Sceptic?" Really? Please stop posting until you've gone back and completed grammar school!
2. Most of our Universe is Missing! ...Donald Trump says the Mexicans are stealing it,
3. Radar Astronomy can echo detect dark matter Scalativity - "The New Scientific Paradigm" Episode 2 - CMBR Emitted Locally 3 Kelvin
4. Cosmology analogous to religion? Cosmology is merely the study of the cosmos or universe. One can undertake this study within many different realms, philosophy, science, theology etc.
5. great clip...
6. Modern cosmology is based on a lot of assumptions. To be a pure science one must be able to disprove some theories. Obviously with cosmology one can not do that as hard core proof is hard to come by. All of theoretical physics including cosmology has huge holes in them. String theory is mathematically correct to but how can one prove that it truly reflects nature....Science is based on experimentation and or observation...without that you have nothing...
7. Dude, we still can't see atoms...
8. Maybe he's just trying to keep us from the dark side
9. While mathematics is the most precise way to describe nature. Still it is not the nature itself. It's elementary logic not to confuse the map with the terrain. The root of science is in the empirical evidence and mathematics. What some people seem to forget is that you have to have both Mathematically this is not the only possible universe, and when you want to find out how this universe works, you need to look whats there empirically. Empiricism and mathematics need each other. Appreciate both
10. @Skandalos That's the beauty of it. Mathematics did not need to be invented in this universe. Yeah we invented the name "mathematics" and thought of names for numbers and operations. and yeah the language of nature is physics and the language of physics is mathematics.. we can describe the processes in nature so exact.. is it this precision which frightens you? This is undeniable.. there is only mathematics and no romance, no god involved in this. Too bad man....
11. @metafa84 "Humans did not invent mathematics"? LOL? Who invented it then? Your guinea pig perhaps? Me religious? You are the one who tries to put mathematics into a god-like role. 
12. @Skandalos Also if you are using polarising words, your comment is ridiculous (and creepy). Humans did not invent mathematics, this would mean that the first reasonable event with a cause and an effect happened when the first human began to think of words for 1 finger, 2 fingers, 3 fingers, ... . Math cannot be just invented by someone. Everything is based on it since the beginning of time, clearly in our universe. Are you one of these braindead religious people or what do you want to show here?
13. @metafa84 "nature is depending on the rules of mathematics"? hello? We, humans, we have developed mathematics. It serves as an interface between infinitely complex nature and our limited brains. Math is not nature, its not the language of nature, nature doesnt depend on math. You sound like the rapist who goes like "the bitch wanted it". You project your human limitedness at nature. You got a hammer, so everything in nature gotta be a nail. How stupid can you get? 
14. @Skandalos Well to quote myself: "If you do not believe that nature is depending on the rules of mathematics then you can abandon all of physics". And if you do that: tough luck xD
15. @metafa84 Math is "the language of nature"? Again something that doesnt make any sense. 
16. @Skandalos Well, there are numerous cases (and with numerous I mean thousands) where mathematical sense means nothing less than the unability to prove the opposite (and that's quite frankly the highest grade a theory can reach in science. I.e. relativity). The language of nature IS mathematics. And although as you say "mathematics is only a toolbox" and we can never go the edge of the universe, mathematical sense to me is a clear indicator that reality cannot be very far away from this. 
17. @metafa84 It makes "mathematical sense"? So what? And what would that mean anyway, to make "mathematical sense"? Mathematic is a toolbox, a model collection, nothing more. Math can model reality as well as it can model phantasy.
18. The Standard model was designed for Experimental Particle Physics,mainly because it is easier to have models for which you can do computer simulations based on vast libraries of detector data about certain particles to make more efficient detectors which are optimized for the detection of a certain particle in a kind of a cycle of experiment,simulation and further experiment.it was'nt really Cosmology material to begin with-> the Big Bang happened under different conditions to experiments today.
19. Cosmology is good for scientific curiosity, and in some cases acts as a driving for to study science but Cosmology itself is pretty useless- there are a lot of scientific by-products driven by the curiosity of people, but I don't think it should be taken so seriously, like religion; so why should one man's view of science, or the universe, be so important when there are (a) thousands of Cosmologists and (b) a universe of which we can currently know about 2% about at the maximum.
20. @metafa84 Anything can be elevated to a religious institution for that matter. Art itself is not a religion but can be or attain to a "religious" status, same for anything: rock music, model airplane flying, kung fu, etc... I think more on point is the condition of the scientific fascism that prevents alternative theories, that are potentially more credible, from replacing flawed mainstream models that are predicated upon houses of cards of theories.