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- From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: More of the Big Bang Argument
- Message-ID: <Jan.11.18.39.41.1993.9057@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 23:39:41 GMT
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- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- metzler@pablo.physics.lsa.umich.edu (Chris Metzler) writes:
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- >I presume you are referring to the paper by Tom Broadhurst,
- >Richard Ellis, David Koo, and Alex Szalay, "Large-scale distribution
- >of galaxies at the Galactic poles," Nature v343, 22 Feb 1990.
-
- ...
-
- >There is more that I can say about this result in the context of
- >CDM, but it's not relevant to this conversation. More if anybody
- >cares (probably not).
-
- Sure, I'm interested - considerably more interested than in debating
- anything (Big Bang, GR, etc.) with Tom, who is smart enough to successfully
- snipe at details, and the debate probably cannot be profitably settled.
-
- Anyway, I am interested in the possible ramifications of Broadhurst
- et al. Something I find particularly disturbing is the supposed
- periodicity of their result (purely aside from the problems arising
- from really large-scale structure). A friend of mine at Wisconsin
- heard a talk in which the speaker claimed that their result was an
- artifact of the way they binned their data, but he doesn't remember
- who gave it, and I haven't seen any paper that says that. Personally,
- I hear that finding periodicity from a power-spectrum analysis
- is dangerous, but ... So, let's talk physics, not debate the Big Bang
- endlessly.
-