From: Associate Professor BenTheMan To RascalPuff, 4/18/07 Rascal---
It is not clear to me that you have done anything but quote outdated references.
And, to be clear, Newton NEVER based ANYTHING on a graviton. One of the biggest problems Newton had with his own work was that he had no idea concerning what gravity actually WAS.
Sometimes you eat the bahr, and, well, sometimes he eats you. ---Anon
From RascalPuff to BenTheMan:
Dear BenTheMan:
The point of the 'outdated' references is, they're retrieved from the (steady state) trashcan and being put back on the slate. The increasingly desperate big bangers are plundering key features of what was previously abandoned (particularly the 'cosmological constant', since the recent - 1998 - discovery that the expanding universe is
accelerating); while continuing on with their bankrupt (originally presented) 'big bang' , which now only vaguely resembles it's initial inception and presentation.
Enter (collectively) in google: Cosmological Constant Lambda Expanding universe big bang acceleration red shift dark energy Friedmann Lemaitre Robertson Walker.
Enter in google: 'Einstein was right after all - maybe'.
I am fully aware of :
'The idea that matter can act at a distance across space to influence other matter is to me so great an absurdity that no man with a competent facility for thinking could ever fall into it'. - Newton, Paraphrased.
Newton, repeatedly, deliberately and emphatically clarified that 'gravity' ('the 'animus mundi') was a complete mystery to him.
Post script:
Dear Professor Ben the Man:
It is clear that your only respite is the statement of the obvious that you've extended. Thank you for your seasoned views.
Regards,
-RP
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