Re: "In Search of the Big Bang" (brief review)
- From: "N:dlzc D:aol T:com \(dlzc\)" <N: dlzc1 D:cox T:net@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 16:28:22 -0700
Dear Øystein Olsen:
"Øystein Olsen" <spam.me.senseless@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Greg Hennessy skrev:
>
>> In article <vmFme.1446$Pp.206@fed1read01>,
>> N:dlzc D:aol T:com \(dlzc\) <N: dlzc1 D:cox T:net@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>> >> Hubble expansion has been observed to be
>>> >> occurring between the Earth and the Moon.
>>> >> Over the last few tens of years. Over and
>>> >> above the tidally driven "angular
>>> >> momentum transfer"
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > Citation please.
>>>
>>> URL:http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0302008
>>
>> To claim that this paper "observed" Hubble
>> expansion between the earth and moon is a
>> definition of the word "observed" that I was
>> previously unware of.
>>
>> The gist of the article is that because the
>> measured distance to the moon is slightly
>> larger than a predicted value we might be
>> seeing hubble expansion.
>>
>> Which is clearly not the same as saying
>> hubble expansion has been observed.
>
> Correct, it is known that Earth's shape has
> been changing due redistribution of mass
> since the last ice-age. The above article
> ignores this standard explanation for the
> discrepancy between the increase in the
> Moon's orbit and the slowing of Earth's
> rotation.
Do you have a citation for this "standard explanation"? A web
page will be fine.
I have access to the papers, but I don't (know if I) have access
to peer reviews of the papers. Ignorance is seldom bliss.
David A. Smith
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