Re: Re: Re: Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion

2012-11-17 Thread Roger Clough
ubject: Re: Re: Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 05:40:10AM -0600, Roger Clough wrote: > > The more interesting question is how the physical universe could have > been created out of the nonphysical, which I take to be intelligence. > Ther

Re: Re: Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion

2012-11-16 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 05:40:10AM -0600, Roger Clough wrote: > > The more interesting question is how the physical universe could have > been created out of the nonphysical, which I take to be intelligence. > There are many accounts of how something (the universe) could have arisen from nothi

Re: Re: Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion

2012-11-16 Thread Roger Clough
-15, 10:45:18 Subject: Re: Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion Hi Stephen P. King He's got his work cut out for him, not so much as casting doubt on other's theories, but in explaining all of the data obtained with alternate theorie. In which case, the Big Bang simply

Re: Re: Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion

2012-11-16 Thread Roger Clough
2012-11-15, 15:55:10 Subject: Re: Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 05:20:14AM -0600, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Bruno and Russell, > > The evidence of a Big Bang is enormous. See, for example: > Of course, but the big bang is not the same th

Re: Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion

2012-11-15 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 08:55:10AM +1100, Russell Standish wrote: > > Actually, according to Wikipedia: > > Though the universe might in theory have a longer history, the > International Astronomical Union [4] presently use "age of the > universe" to mean the duration of the Lambda-CDM expansion,

Re: Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion

2012-11-15 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 05:20:14AM -0600, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Bruno and Russell, > > The evidence of a Big Bang is enormous. See, for example: > Of course, but the big bang is not the same thing as the beginning of the universe. Also, the cosmic microwave background, which is the direct o

Re: Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion

2012-11-15 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King He's got his work cut out for him, not so much as casting doubt on other's theories, but in explaining all of the data obtained with alternate theorie. In which case, the Big Bang simply happened another way than that taught. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 11/15/201

Re: Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion

2012-11-11 Thread Russell Standish
Rubbish, it not a measurement of the age of the universe, but rather of the Hubble constant. It only corresponds to the age of the universe in the context of a specific theory, usually the Friedmann universe, which is one of the simplests solutions to Einstein's theory of general relativity. Journ

Re: Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion

2012-11-11 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Russell Standish It's not theory, it's measurement to 4 figures, with an error of plus or minus 0.87 %: http://www.universetoday.com/13371/1373-billion-years-the-most-accurate-measurement-of-the-age-of-the-universe-yet/ "13.73 Billion Years -- The Most Precise Measurement of the Age of th