tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34480619.post6607338314213244657..comments2024-03-11T13:47:03.621-05:00Comments on Physics and Physicists: João Magueijo’s Big BangZapperZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15861398273820851809noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34480619.post-30456300845306119722009-07-21T19:13:05.751-05:002009-07-21T19:13:05.751-05:00I watched this program with some unease ( i.e. se...I watched this program with some unease ( i.e. self promotion, poor analogies and disturbing visulas) and a distinct lack of closure on the VSL theory! <br />As a layman i was a little more than confused. Wouldn't all constants,(while being the same relative to each other) have different values in a smaller, hotter, more dense.... Universe to the one we have today? Aren't they all determined relative to the expanding space/time?<br />(apologise if this seems ignorant :-) .)Blazedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05055462457208092551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34480619.post-59956728148038619242008-07-18T10:10:00.000-05:002008-07-18T10:10:00.000-05:00My take on it (Big Bang). Not all material makes ...My take on it (Big Bang). Not all material makes it to the core of the 'bang' which has already reached critical mass, the core material 'exiting' faster than material which 'was' moving towards the core.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34480619.post-4142216908202516862008-07-17T23:01:00.000-05:002008-07-17T23:01:00.000-05:00In One of his episodes while he is talking about t...In One of his episodes while he is talking about the Horizon Problem there is a creepy subliminal message, that i barely caught with my eye, but can confirm with Tivo. A few seconds after he uses the metaphor of seeing 3 different people with orange paint on them far away from each other in a city. <BR/> Right where the title "Horizon Problem" is a line forms, then the next frame it gets stretched into the Words "AXIS OF EVIL" - The following frame changes the words to "666 of Evil" (look closely), then the following 3-4 frames are again "Axis of Evil" but in different fonts.<BR/> It is pretty creepy this stuff is on what you would think is a politcally nuetral program.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13878137800428382990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34480619.post-41589137444993138252008-06-01T18:23:00.000-05:002008-06-01T18:23:00.000-05:00To add further to this shameless bit of self-promo...To add further to this shameless bit of self-promotion, he didn't bother acknowledging Moffat for originating the notion of VSL as an alternative to inflation - bad form lad.<BR/><BR/>At the beginning of the show he talked about looking at the CMB maps at different scales which led him to the so-called axis of evil feature. Can this "observation" be reconciled at all with his VSL theory? I assume there is some maths behind it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34480619.post-33610372939134692602008-05-29T09:36:00.000-05:002008-05-29T09:36:00.000-05:00After viewing this program, it appeared that Mr. M...After viewing this program, it appeared that Mr. Magueijo was more interested in promoting himself than his ideas. He gave a decent summary of current thinking in cosmology, but when it became time to present his own ideas he could have been a bit more specific than simply stating that his VSL theory solves many of the current problems facing cosmology. Granted, it was a TV show and not a lecture to physicists, but a little more explanation and a little fewer flashy graphics would have been nice. As a layperson myself, the horizon problem is a bit difficult to understand and I felt that simply stating that VSL makes the inflation theory unnecessary was an insufficient explantion. He should have fleshed it out a bit more.<BR/><BR/>The show was filled with strange analogies(his imagined childhood friend who grew up to be a mean looking butcher with a meat cleaver in hand was supposed to represent the horizon of the universe) and wierd graphics which seemed designed more to say 'Look at me, I'm a heretic' than to elucidate his points. I could have done without the montage of all the sweaters his grandmother supposedly knit for all his relatives as well.<BR/><BR/>For quirky TV physicists, I have to say I much prefer Michio Kaku.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com