saturn return to sender

A perk of a 24″ widescreen monitor is that you can watch movies and have plenty of screen real estate left for work. I wind up watching more than working, of course. I’m not good at multi-tasking while watching something. If I care about watching a movie I’m annoyed when people talk during it. I also can’t stand to hear more than one stream of music at once. Competing harmonies or melodies drives me crazy, but some people don’t seem to mind. I think my brain likes to latch on and follow these things with intense focus. When I was very young I’d memorize movies after a few viewings. I memorized all the lines from the plays my folks were directing.

It doesn’t exactly work that way anymore, of course. =)

I just watched Serenity again and damn that’s a fine flick.

I’ve upgraded to Wordpress 2 and enabled the users/post level yadda stuff so I can talk about my wild adventures as a part-time llama sandal stylist in relative privacy. You can self-register here. If I recognize you I’ll bump your user level as appropriate. In the unlikely event that you read this blog and I don’t know you, by all means drop me an email and say hi! =)

So I’m utterly unqualified to evaluate the arguments found here (download the three pdfs on the right sidebar). It could be a big joke and I suppose I wouldn’t know the difference. Which is to say, I see the math in there, mumble “uh huh … uh, so what’s phi, again? or wait: was that one with the little curly-cue lambda?” and skip to the next bit of prose and pretty pictures.

This fellow has made an addendum to relativity and uses it to overthrow the dominant cosmological model of the last century. Intuitively, and in its breadth, to someone who’s sort of fascinated by the subject and has tried to figure out (with greater or lesser success) what all the real scientists are all talking about, it’s very compelling.

THEO: YOU MUST READ THEM. When you have time.

The upshot: the big bang didn’t happen. The data that motivated its proposal is accounted for better by a (lovely, IMHO) geometrical model of time implied by the addition to relativity mentioned above. (And I admit I don’t quite follow the leap from gravitational transverse redshift to the geometrical model of time.) Also addressed: the formation of stars, galactic evolution, dark matter (it’s unnecessary, of course), black holes, white holes, why Mars may have been wet and warm, periodic mass extinctions and a whole bunch of anomalies that don’t fit current models.

Yes, periodic mass extinctions. So the universe is ageless. We’re back to (net) steady state?

I just wish my hairline had been steady state since around age 19.