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Vodka! Cosmologists Say Last Week’s Announcement About Inflation May Be Wrong — now my turn!

Cosmologists Say Last Week’s Announcement About Gravitational Waves and Inflation May Be Wrong. 🙂 Hey, I want to take a chance too at being wrong too. Here is my shot at being wrong, I agree with Katirai: Andromeda has 1 star, not billions. Professor of Astronomy YP Varshni published in 2005 that quasar Ton 202 is only about 700 light years away, not 3.3 Giga light years. If quasars are close, why not everything else? And if everything else is close, then galaxies are close, and if galaxies are close, the Andromeda galaxy isn’t billions and billions of stars but rather a single star surrounded by gas, debris, and maybe planets. Do you believe your eyes or do you believe Read More ›

Does lopsided universe mean problems with standard model?

Probably not. The standard model is widely critiqued today not because of its occasional problems—or because of the normal skepticism of science—but because it provides support for a universe that many in science don’t like (one with theistic implications. Read More ›