The age of the universe is a function of time
The age of the universe is a function of time
I recently came across this rather amusing satire on the "methodology" of pseudoscience. Enjoy.
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Re: The age of the universe is a function of time
chaos syndrome wrote:I recently came across this rather amusing satire on the "methodology" of pseudoscience. Enjoy.
a) This guy (Donald E. Simanek) apparently has never learned much math, otherwise he had plotted the earlier data in logarithmic scaling.
Donald E. Simanek wrote:Estimates earlier than 1850 are too near the axis to plot, and their error estimates are untrustworthy at best.
b) That plot in Donald E. Simanek's paper is not pseudoscience, really. It just reflects our improved ability to measure the Hubble parameter H0 in the course of time. These measurements of H0 culminate of course in the recent precision data from WMAP (which Donald E. Simanek apparently has never heard of
).
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