tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post8698898564306427617..comments2024-03-27T22:28:06.861-06:00Comments on Dispatches From Turtle Island: More Dark Matter and Gravitation DevelopmentsAndrew Oh-Willekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-77155035065454889572014-12-14T23:13:30.725-07:002014-12-14T23:13:30.725-07:00Another paper comes to a somewhat similar conclusi...Another paper comes to a somewhat similar conclusion by another means.<br /><br />http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.4001andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08172964121659914379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-39352076780165625622014-12-14T23:11:05.532-07:002014-12-14T23:11:05.532-07:00Non-Linear effects of GR in nesting hierarchy of c...Non-Linear effects of GR in nesting hierarchy of cell systems like the universe are greatly underestimated and are on the same order of magnitude as DM and DE.<br /><br />http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.3865v1.pdfandrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08172964121659914379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-5536812331495478572014-09-24T12:43:47.552-06:002014-09-24T12:43:47.552-06:00Resonnances digests the BICEP issues at http://res...Resonnances digests the BICEP issues at http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2014/09/bicep-what-was-wrong-and-what-was-right.html<br /><br />He argues that the authors faults were insufficient care with critical points and refusal to admit to their mistakes.andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08172964121659914379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-76083822603356942152014-09-24T12:25:04.662-06:002014-09-24T12:25:04.662-06:00See also here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.5738.pdf ...See also here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.5738.pdf re BICEP2, a new Planck collaboration paper. The abstract states in the pertinent part:<br /><br />"Finally, we investigate the<br />level of dust polarization in the specific field recently targeted by the BICEP2 experiment. Extrapolation of the Planck 353 GHz data to 150 GHz<br />gives a dust power DBB ` ≡ `(` + 1)C BB `/(2π) of 1.32 × 10−2 µK 2 CMB over the multipole range of the primordial recombination bump (40 < ` < 120); the statistical uncertainty is ±0.29 × 10−2 µK 2 CMB and there is an additional uncertainty (+0.28, −0.24) × 10−2 µK 2 CMB from the extrapolation. This level is the same magnitude as reported by BICEP2 over this range, which highlights the need for assessment of the polarized dust signal even in the cleanest windows of the sky. The present uncertainties are large and will be reduced through an ongoing, joint analysis of the Planck and BICEP2 data sets."<br /><br />In English and without the character mistranslations in my cut and paste from the abstract, Planck's researchers find that the part of the sky being observed by the BICEP team contained significantly more dust than it had assumed.andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08172964121659914379noreply@blogger.com