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"It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded." -- Isaac Newton
"All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the 'Lord God.'" -- Isaac Newton
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New Issues Arise within Modern Cosmology
Galaxies in JWST’s mirror are closer than they appear
New research shows we might be overestimating the distance to faraway galaxies in the early universe.
By Paul Sutter | Published: August 31, 2023
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Scientism is a dogmatic ideology which presumes that “science”, in the narrower sense of the word, has the answers to all questions. It invents necessities to sustain itself. Routinely performs circular reasoning.
Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have been known for half a century. The conclusion is that astrophysics is too important to be left in the hands of astrophysicists who have gotten their main knowledge from these textbooks. Earthbound and space telescope data must be treated by scientists who are familiar with laboratory and magnetospheric physics and circuit theory, and of course with modern plasma theory.
--Hannes Alfven (Noble Prize Plasma Physics)
"We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect."
-- Hannes Alfven
"Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research." -- Hannes Alfven