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Rusty_Hinge wrote:

Yes :-) Actually, that's not the thing that annoys me most about the
cosmologists - it's the way that all their evidence depends on a very
complicated analysis of the data, which can only be done by assuming
their hypothesis! It's tortoises all the way down ....


While I haven't had the time to look, ITYF it's turtles...


Yes, but you know how much the average person knows about zoology!

We have damn-all direct evidence of general relativity at high space-
time stresses, or even that the red shift is due to recession,


Well, it's a good starting-point. Recession creates unemployment,
unemployment results in a lot of ungruntled ex-employees, many of whom
shift to the red...


You have the methods of cosmological proof down to a T.

and
there are alternative hypotheses that are mathematically consistent
and compatible with known physics. Yes, they're probably wrong, but
that doesn't prove the current hypotheses are right.


Do these admit the existence of trolls?


Ah. Now, THERE, we have observational evidence. As Einstein didn't
quite say, any theory that doesn't admit the existence of trolls has
to be discounted. And Hawking has said that his theories do admit them.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.