After finding that picture I started reading lots of good articles on wiki covering this part of our history. It's a pretty cool summary of what happened. I did not know there was such a thing a the Reionization Era.
Did you guys know about this? :/
You know, as much as I LOVE astronomy, I don't see what's so exciting about this. Is there any real significance?
(Much more interesting to me, is your seeming attempt to derail your own thread in the first post! :P)
This is just a theory, correct? Or do they have enough evidence that we more or less know that's how it went down?
| Broncos724 said: This is just a theory, correct? Or do they have enough evidence that we more or less know that's how it went down? |
It's an integral part of Big Bang cosmology. We can observe this from looking at/analyzing all the light particles.
| Broncos724 said: This is just a theory, correct? Or do they have enough evidence that we more or less know that's how it went down? |
I'm sorry I have to this bronco, and it's nothing personal, I have OCD when it comes to this phrase, like a pet peeve, I say it to everyone that uses it.
But, something cannot be merely "Juat a theory", a theory is a very high scientific acolade. You start off with a hypothesis, which is an idea that has to be tested. You conduct research to find if the hypothesis is correct, if it isn't start again, if it is you have a theory... then you further test the theory to adapt it to the new evidence.
If you were to say "This is just a hypothesis correct?", then I would have agreed with your statement.
Once again I do appologise.
anyway, on topic:
I read something in New Scientist that said they had gained some evidence to adapt to it. So I think they are pretty sure they are on the right tracks.
GamingChartzFTW said:
It's an integral part of Big Bang cosmology. We can observe this from looking at/analyzing all the light particles.
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@highwaystar - Exactly. Anyone who says something is "just a theory" and therefore not worth listening to probably slept through and/or failed high school science class.
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While I find this all cool. I took enough Astronomy to learn to take anything that's an educated guess with a grain of salt.
They are very good at predicting things they can prove (like orbital dynamics), but really suck at things that they can't prove out.
When this was driven home, was when learned that we landed a probe on Venus in 1972. Every major Astronomer had a different opinion of what venus was made up of, and looked like. Every one of them was wrong.
We can't even do a good job of predicting characteristics about the closest planet to us, and they want to tell us what stars are made out of, just based on light that has traveled billions of miles.
Yea, cool stuff, but I will put it in the "clever guess" section, and not "history" section of my brains library.
akuma587 said:
@highwaystar - Exactly. Anyone who says something is "just a theory" and therefore not worth listening to probably slept through and/or failed high school science class.
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Hey, that's not fair, it is a minor mistake, lots of people make it. I'm sure he knew what he meant really, lots of people get hypotheses and theories confused. Give him a break, I meant no malice in that comment.
However, it is something that annoys me a little lol.
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