(October 14, 2009 at 9:22 pm)Tiberius Wrote: It seems to me that Saerules is trying to explain away physics with mathematics (which is a human invention after all...not a "science" strictly). The problems I foresee in this are:
1) Mathematics is abstract. The number "1" doesn't actually exist anywhere in the universe...we invented it in our minds.
2) Saerules has shown a complete lack of mathematical skill in other threads, so I wouldn't trust anything she had to say on mathematical proofs of the universe being cyclic...
I wouldn't trust anything she had to say on cosmology, she has a layman grasp tinged with her existing expectations and it leads her to argue against objectively supported conclusions (accelerating expansion) with nonsense ideas about cyclic universes (big bounce or steady state - both conclusively discredited).
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