but if we manage to eliminate any hypothesis considered more likely then what remains?
Quote from: Stormbringer on 12/02/2016 12:09 pmbut if we manage to eliminate any hypothesis considered more likely then what remains?Most likely a measurement error, another explanation which has been missed, or a minus sign that was dropped from an equation. Although that Sherlock Holmes quote sounds good in theory, it doesn't work so well in practice.
With all the scientists pounding away trying to come up with an explanation i am pretty sure that measurement error isn't an explanation at this point. However i didn't really post this to discuss the weirdness at Tabby's star. I posted it because the idea that a sun could be manipulated this particular way is new to me and is somewhat more probably that the other methods i have read about to wit: picotech bot swarms using exotic matter, Dyson swarms (even though this uses a dyson swarm in a new way) or trillions of nano scale artificial wormholes. This one is simpler in execution and i did not know that it was "possible" even to alter a star's mechanics and behavior by zapping it... Edit: but if they could do this and still preferred living on planets rather than banks orbitals or other large space stations then they could easily pull out enough matter to make a few new planets to order.
Interesting. But this is a little last drastic than making it go nova
Also there is at least one (and maybe two) legitimate professional astronomy teams looking for spectral tell tales that would be present if a black hole is actually a wormhole in disguise. This is important because primordial wormholes did not need exotic matter/energy to be created/continue to exist.
they think that all such primordial wormholes throughout the universe in both space and time would connect to each other. if so i would then be problem of reaching the nearest primordial worm hole/black hole. these would most likely be galactic wormholes but might possibly be some that are stellar mass black hole size as well.
There were 2 books written in the 1970's that discuss "stellar engineering" by Adrian Berry.In "The Next Ten Thousand Years" giant X ray lasers are used to shift a stars energy balance to force it to go nova, in order to mine minerals from it. A staggering feat of imagination at the time at the time given no one had built anything close to one and AFAIK only the DoD was considering something in the classified research area.In "The Iron Sun" the idea of using multiple Bussard ramjets to "heard" Hydrogen over a big enough volume of space is outlined to create a sun big enough to implode into a Black hole, aiming at a transport system leading to a "White hole." I'm sure wheather the physics of this idea has now been discredited but it's certainly engineering on a large scale, although physics suggest once you get a high enough concentration over a large enough volume of space the process would be unstoppable.
when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truthYeah I noticed that too. It does not work at all. The impossible are usually more probable than the highly improbable. You have probably carefully defined the highly improbable if you feel you can do math on it. Impossible things happen because you misdefined them to begin with. And you can't possibly enumerate all the well defined impossible things. It was probably hard enough doing the math for the well defined improbable thing.
This guy is usually interesting: