Recent content by Lyman_alpher

Did I write this? No. Don't put quotation marks around a falsified quote. Lying about what people say is not only unscientific but it's deeply rude. It's the same with all your wild accusations about Blondin, you're inventing elaborate hidden motives but you have absolutely no evidence to back...

Nope, that's just moving the goalposts again. Stacking spectra is perfectly common, it is not falsification. It's quite clearly stated how it was done. You specifically said it was "adjusted to such a degree that it bears little in common with any actual spectra", taking a mean spectrum is not...

Mckellar 's paper wasn't making predictions. He was indirectly measuring the temperature from absorption lines in the interstellar medium. He compared it to Eddington's temperature, but explicitly stressed that it is not a black body. "Radiation in interstellar space, being the integrated total...

It is a low redshift template spectrum. Combining different objects into a single reference isn't unusual, it is simple the mean spectrum. It even shows the standard deviation, showing that the individual spectra going in were in good agreement with the stack. And where is your proof of this...

Fig 2 show she low z templates, fig 3 the high z templates. If you want to plot them together I suggest you download the data yourself. They have, see fig 6 of Blondin and Fig 3 of Goldhaber. And for the record Goldhaber et al is not spectroscopic at all. They do show the low and high redshift...

You apparently didn't look at the paper very well. "Fig. 3 we show the age distribution of the SN Ia templates used in SNID for this paper (these do not include sub- luminous SNe Ia). This database comprises 959 spectra of 79 low-redshift (z . 0.05) SNe Ia with ages between −15 and +50 d from...

And that's what Blondin et al. and Goldhaber et al. did. There is no assumptions about expansion going into fitting the timescale of these SN. And yet, they find evidence of time dilation which follows the (1+z) expectation from the expanding model. In tried light there should be no such time...

But you just claimed the non-expanding model fits better, but now you agree there is no such analysis? And that's simply not true as I explained. z=0 in fig 7 would be just a vertical line at z=0. All SN would have zero redshift, this is completely incompatible with the data. In FLRW redshift...

That's not actually the case. The paper adopts FLRW cosmology, so the only way to get redshift is with expansion. There is no non-expanding model on any of their plots, because it would just be a line at redshift zero. All supernovea regardless of distance would have zero redshift, which...

The reference was in the original link. The book was "The Internal constitution of the stars", Eddington, 1926.

I did read down, it doesn't change what I said. Eddington did not predict the CMB. Claiming that dust scattered Eddington's background to the microwave range is a post hoc explanation, it's absolutely not a prediction. So this "model" has never been tested independently, you can't claim it's a...

It's going to take more than one galaxy, because analyses like this are not objective. In this example you are basing your claim that the galaxies in Stephan's Quintet are actually connected on your subjective option. Without hard evidence of a physical connection we cannot base our conclusions...

This is often repeated but it is actually a mischaracterisation of what Eddington said. If you actually look at Eddington's original book he makes it quite clear that he was not proposing his background was a 3 K blackbody. " Radiation in interstellar space is about as far from...