On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 10:27:38 AM UTC-6,
[email protected] wrote:
I am sure that many observers and even researchers do
not wish to have the drag of theoretical misadventures
in the past ruining new information that will pour in from
the new telescope.
You are, are you?
Within 5 minutes of the webcast on July 12th, they were
using imaging to demonstrate that Einstein was right in
terms of elongations of the galaxies as seen from Webb,
Shocking, isn't it? But gravitational lensing has been seen
on plenty of Hubble images. So there's no longer a need
"to demonstrate Einstein was right"; we _know_ he was,
and now we're putting the phenomenon of gravitational
lensing to *use* in seeing things further away.
however, readers here can judge for themselves how poor
his perspective was back in 1920 along with the following
chapter used to support what is effectively celestial sphere
or RA/Dec modelling-
https://www.bartleby.com/173/30.html
I'll have to admit that you _have_ found a section of Einstein's
writings where he was merely handwaving. Yes, Olbers'
paradox does eliminate a Universe of uniform finite nonzero
density, and a finite universe in an empty flat space is sort of
unsatisfying for the reason he notes, but getting unsatisfying
confused with impossible... that is one of his faults.
John Savard
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