Subject: Re: arXiv:0704.2291v1 [astro-ph] Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:47:29 +0200 Message-ID: From: Dimi Chakalov To: Simon White Cc: Pavel Kroupa , Catherine Meusburger , Hans Peter Nilles , Jörg P Dietrich , Roy Maartens , Slava Mukhanov , Robert Minchin , Mordehai Milgrom , Craig J Copi , Adam Helfer , Hermann Nicolai , Alan Rendall , Chris Isham , Claus Kiefer , Clifford Will , Domenico Giulini , Evangelos Melas , Gian Michele Graf , Helmut Friedrich , Jack Lee , Jeremiah P Ostriker , John Friedman , Jörg Frauendiener , Jorge Pullin , Jürg Fröhlich , Karel V Kuchar , Kip Thorne , Lars Andersson , Laszlo Szabados , Luciano Rezzolla , Michael H Freedman , Norbert Straumann , Paul Tod , Robert Beig , Robert M Wald , Roger Blandford , Ted Newman , nbeisert@itp.phys.ethz.ch, jinke@itp.phys.ethz.ch, gaberdiel@itp.phys.ethz.ch, broedel@itp.phys.ethz.ch, mfraas@itp.phys.ethz.ch, canduc@itp.phys.ethz.ch, deleeuwm@itp.phys.ethz.ch, verguc@itp.phys.ethz.ch You bluntly ignored my email sent to you since Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:24:49 +0300. Why did you do that, Simon? You cannot speculate about "Fundamentalist physics: why Dark Energy is bad for Astronomy", because neither you nor any of your colleagues know the very first effect of gravity that you see in front of your nose: http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#rotation If you or any of your colleagues can explain it, please do write me back, and I will show you additional errors in your arXiv:0704.2291v1 [astro-ph]. Please don't hesitate to pass this email to other people interested in theoretical physics. If you aren't interested, don't bother to respond -- there is none so blind as they that won't see. D. Chakalov ------------ Note: Read an excerpt from Simon White below (emphasis added). Mind you, he wasn't joking, and is still the Geschäftsführender Direktor at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik! More from Max Planck. D. Chakalov February 13, 2013 ------------------- Fundamentalist Physics: Why Dark Energy May Be Bad for Astronomy Prof. Simon White, Director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/bblunch/white1/ arXiv:0704.2291v1 [astro-ph] pp. 8-9: "Dark Matter drives the formation of galaxies and galaxy clusters and influences all aspects of their structure. Its distribution can be mapped directly using gravitational lensing, and can be inferred indirectly both from the dynamics of galaxies and intergalactic gas, and from the structure of fluctuations in the microwave background radiation. (...) Dark Matter studies thus impact directly on most aspects of extragalactic astronomy and astrophysical cosmology, as well as stimulating astroparticle experiments and research programmes at accelerators. In contrast, Dark Energy studies have little or no impact on other areas of astrophysics and experimental high-energy physics. (...) Thus, while clarifying the nature of Dark Matter has all the hallmarks of a typical “astrophysicist’s” problem, interacting with many other aspects of the field and accessible by many routes, clarifying the nature of Dark Energy is a “fundamental” problem, apparently accessible only by a route which has little impact on the rest of astrophysics. ......... p. 13: "Listening to the siren call of the fundamentalists may lose us both the creative brains and the instruments that are needed to remain vibrant. Dark Energy is the Pied Piper’s pipe, luring astronomers away from their home territory to follow high-energy physicists down the path to professional extinction." ===================================================== Subject: Re: arXiv:0704.2291v1 [astro-ph] Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:08:06 +0200 Message-ID: From: Dimi Chakalov To: juerg Cc: Simon White , roy.maartens@port.ac.uk, Slava Mukhanov On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:42:17 -0500, juerg wrote: > > These messages are becoming quite annoying! Jürg, the problem with all that "dark" stuff is known since 1933, and was confirmed in early 1970s. I am only trying to help you and your colleagues address the bold facts. Are these facts "annoying" to you? Or maybe to Simon, Roy, and their Russian colleague? D. Chakalov ------------- >> P.S. I quoted from your essay at >> http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#Simon >> >> Do I need to explain your errors? >> >> D.C. >>