The Paradoxes That Threaten To Tear Modern Cosmology Apart

Revolutions in science often come from the study of seemingly unresolvable paradoxes. An intense focus on these paradoxes, and their eventual resolution, is a process that has leads to many important breakthroughs.

So an interesting exercise is to list the paradoxes associated with current ideas in science. It’s just possible that these paradoxes will lead to the next generation of ideas about the universe.

Today, Yurij Baryshev at St Petersburg State University in Russia does just this with modern cosmology. The result is a list of paradoxes associated with well-established ideas and observations about the structure and origin of the universe.

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CrazyNeutrino said:

The Paradoxes That Threaten To Tear Modern Cosmology Apart

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Terrible article, written by someone who doesn’t know anything.

The original technical article http://arxiv.org/pdf/1501.01919v1.pdf
reads like it was written by a person who’s only just got their undergraduate science degree. For example, bemoaning the fact that energy is not conserved – of course it isn’t because mass can be converted into energy, it’s mass+energy that is conserved.

“there is no physical concept of the energy-momentum density of the gravitational field” is just plain wrong.

So many ignorant errors there that if there is anything of value it’s buried under the mistakes.

No idea how it got to be considered newsworthy, it hasn’t passed peer review.

Yes, it’s a poor piece.

mollwollfumble said:

Terrible article, written by someone who doesn’t know anything.

The original technical article http://arxiv.org/pdf/1501.01919v1.pdf
reads like it was written by a person who’s only just got their undergraduate science degree. For example, bemoaning the fact that energy is not conserved – of course it isn’t because mass can be converted into energy, it’s mass+energy that is conserved.

“there is no physical concept of the energy-momentum density of the gravitational field” is just plain wrong.

So many ignorant errors there that if there is anything of value it’s buried under the mistakes.

No idea how it got to be considered newsworthy, it hasn’t passed peer review.

I hardly skimmed it. I think the guy wants to be told all the answers without figuring any of it out for himself.

Just the notion that cosmology can be torn apart is ludicrous. We’ve been measuring stars for millenia. Most of the reason we can count at all.

mollwollfumble said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

The Paradoxes That Threaten To Tear Modern Cosmology Apart

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Terrible article, written by someone who doesn’t know anything.

The original technical article http://arxiv.org/pdf/1501.01919v1.pdf
reads like it was written by a person who’s only just got their undergraduate science degree. For example, bemoaning the fact that energy is not conserved – of course it isn’t because mass can be converted into energy, it’s mass+energy that is conserved.

“there is no physical concept of the energy-momentum density of the gravitational field” is just plain wrong.

So many ignorant errors there that if there is anything of value it’s buried under the mistakes.

No idea how it got to be considered newsworthy, it hasn’t passed peer review.

Ok, thats for that, Ill disregard it, pity that these kinds of articles cannot get some peer review before hand

articles like this which are just opinion are unlikely to be ever peer reviewed.