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Re: What science doesn't know...



Judith, thanks for the list of incomprehensible comprehensions. Since you did not invent those follies, this writing is not arguing with you.
 
If the physicists detected a tetraneutron which shouldn't exist, there are two solutions: an inappropriate instrument application, maybe a reading mistake or interference of so far unkown nature-facts, -  or our model of the physical laws is "not quite accurate" <G>.
 
If naloxone blocks the placebo, it can be an effecting of those neuronal pathways in the connectivity which reactivate the pain, rather than blocks the morphine-effect. Who knows?
 
If there are problems with dark matter and dark energy, then the supposition "there MUST be something like that" is not "quite?" correct, especially with the attached math to it.
 
In your listing line (6, - 5, - 9, - 7, - 12, and an unnumbered which I addressed already) the last one is rife with speculative potentials. Light travels through all kinds of cosmic garbage until our instruments tell us that everything is just dandy - the way we 'want' it. Remember the name Hubble? not the telescope to retire, but the genius in the early 20s, who saw a shift in the spectra of stellar light from far away towards the red-end and - knowing nothing better - associated it with Dopler's shift of sound-frequency shifts coming from approaching or receding sources and concluded that those far-away light sources MUST recede from us if the complete spectrum skewed to the slower end. He was really a bold genius and formulated the idea that the universe is EXPANDING! At his time we knwew almost nothing about the universe, maybe not even so little as today, so this idea picked up speed and thousands and thousands of ambitious physicists started experiments to SUPPORT it. In millions and millions of data from these experiments and millions of pages in calculations
many Nobel prizes were awarded and today such a description as this one sounds - what?
anathema, heresy? or plain stupidity, because it is in contrast with so many smart heads.
Now back to your #12: there was (maybe among more) an Arizonean astronomer who postulated that the redshift is the result of (electro?)magnetic fields online of the travel of the light which changes the frequencey of the total (so the spectrum stays, only shifted to the red end). I don't recall his name (could find it) there were internationa symposia in this matter and I asked at a conference 1997 an MIT compatriot cosmology professor about it.
She said: "Hoax". What it really was in terms of her science. The total model of 85 years of cosmological narrative would have to be changed. The Big Bang would be a lullaby. With all "consequences" and "postulates", models and calculations, new terms/concepts etc.
Such ideas should be burnt at the stake. But your #12 really stirred up the story in me.
 
(Of course this last point has its ramifications into the 'dark' anything as well. Really dark!)
 
Cheerfully yours
 
John M
 
 
 
 
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Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 8:16 AM
Subject: What science doesn't know...

Hi Folks,
 
Robert Rosen was always pointing to things that science doesn't know. "Why does this happen?" "Nobody knows." Well, Newscientist Magazine has put together a list of 13 phenomena that represent huge unanswered questions in science and/or which throw the information science thought it already knew into question. The link is:
Below, I have copied in a few of their list, with some of the accompanying explanation. I think it would be useful to discuss some of these in the context of Rosennean Complexity. For example, # 5,9, and 7 (which come after #6, below!) can easily be explained by principles of relational causality. There's no need to conjure up "dark matter" and "dark energy".... Sheesh!
Judith
 
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