Re: Cosmic acceleration rediscovered

From: George Dishman (george_at_briar.demon.co.uk)
Date: 12/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 21:50:39 -0000

"Bjoern Feuerbacher" <feuerbac@thphys.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote in message
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> George Dishman wrote:
>> "Bjoern Feuerbacher" <feuerbac@thphys.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote in message
>> news:cq6ajl$1nn$1@news.urz.uni-heidelberg.de...
>>
>>>George Dishman wrote:
>>>
>>>Yes, that argument was clear. But you talked about the
>>>exponential form of the curve that was *detected*. *That*
>>>is news to me.
>>
>>
>> That's all I thought he meant by the exponential form,
>> redshift versus distance, which can be indirectly
>> inferred from the measurements.
>
> And if one plots observed redshift versus inferred distance,
> one gets an exponential curve? Really???

That would depend on how he tried to infer the
distance. I don't think he can get an exponential
for the combination but the problem lies with
relating distance to magnitude (or whatever other
measurable is appropriate), not distance to
redshift.

>> He is quite adept at
>> saying one thing while appearing to say another.
>
> And then accusing you of misrepresenting him, while at the
> same time misrepresenting your arguments...

Oh yes, I've experienced both of those too!!

best regards
George

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