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cavediver
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01-09-2007 5:39 PM 		Reply to: Message 13 by Percy
01-08-2007 10:39 PM

Re: HO-LEE-COW!!!
Now go, watch it!
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Just did. Excellent. I particularly liked Weinberg at the end. Boy is he getting soft in his old age! I never thought I'd find myself mostly agreeing with him on such a subject...
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I guess I've got to listen to the rest of them now...
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05-23-2007 8:23 AM 		Reply to: Message 44 by Percy
05-23-2007 8:16 AM

Re: Way of the Master vs Rational Response
We had a brief chat about this last week: link
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10-17-2007 5:06 AM 		Reply to: Message 70 by Kitsune
10-17-2007 4:06 AM

Re: Astronomycast
Specifically, how it's possible that the universe could have expanded faster than the speed of light. The theory is called the inflationary theory
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no, it's standard big bang cosmology withing General Relativity and has nothing to do with inflationary theory - so much bad science and so little time...
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10-17-2007 5:48 AM 		Reply to: Message 72 by Kitsune
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Re: Astronomycast
Sorry, it was no complaint against you. Yes, I know it's a mainstream podcast and a mainstream website, and that's why I'm unhappy. It's quite possible they get it right in the actual body of the talk, but their intro lines which you quote are simply wrong.
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I've been quiet on EvC for a while but I'm well known here as a cosmologist with a major dislike of popular science presentations (becasue they are so often wrong!!) This isn't a discussion thread but I'd quite happily explain this particular point if one were opened (but briefly, the fact that the universe expands "faster than the speed of light" has nothing to do with inflation - inflation just makes it happen "even faster" for a very brief period of time)
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