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- From: metares@well.sf.ca.us (Tom Van Flandern)
- Subject: Re: Meta-model, pubished ?
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- References: <1992Aug18.102914.29147@ulrik.uio.no>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 06:22:40 GMT
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- jarleb@athena.uio.no (Jarle Brinchmann) writes:
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- > I just wondered if The MetaModel, or parts of the ideas have been
- > published, and if so, can anyone provide me with some pointers to the
- > literature...
-
- The first publication of the Meta Model will be in book form around the
- end of this year. I will announce specifics such as title, publisher, and
- date of publication as soon as the manuscript is far enough along to allow an
- accurate forecast of its appearance date.
-
- > the discussion introduces, at least me as an beginning graduate, to lots of
- > issues concerning the Standard Model.
-
- I am pleased to hear that. Whether or not my own model has any
- scientific merit, no graduate student should earn his degree and commence
- independent work in the field without a realization that the entire standard
- model in cosmology, right from the most basic idea in it of an expanding
- universe, might fail altogether within the span of his career, to be replaced
- by something quite different. Sadly, too many commence their careers with a
- belief that the basic Big Bang is fact, with only the details to be filled
- in.
-
- A scientifically healthier perspective would lead to the following
- policies:
- (1) Don't overinvest in any one model.
- (2) Keep all viable models on the scientific table for discussion and
- comparison with observations.
- (3) Always try to falsify whatever models you can, including the
- standard model.
- (4) Stay impartial.
-
- My best wishes to you for success in school, and a long and productive
- career. -|Tom|-
-
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- Tom Van Flandern / Washington, DC / metares@well.sf.ca.us
- Meta Research was founded to foster research into ideas not otherwise
- supported because they conflict with mainstream theories in Astronomy.
-