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There is a complementarity (spelled with an ‘e’) about observation.  The processes of the emanation and detection of radiation are completely symmetric, and in fact, are co-conspirators.  The ‘observation’…Read more

Okay so we ended up the other night with what could be considered a minor success with a plot that was definitely closer to what I had wanted, but…Read more

I wanted to create plots to go with considerations of coherent reinforcement of electromagnetic radiation — as in a telescope for example. So this was my ineffective approach with…Read more

Investigations into the generally observed invariance of the spectra of electromagnetic radiation after having propagated to a considerable distance from its source through a scattering medium by Wolf and…Read more

All implications of scattering by the intergalactic medium that we have examined thus far have derived primarily from its electron density. Implications of its high temperature – although less…Read more

The reader of this and the previous post might well ask, “What does all this have to do with what will actually be observed when incident radiation passes through…Read more

I concluded my previous post with the following comment: “It is reasonable for you to not take my word for it. I could have just taken a marker and…Read more

In my previous post I lampooned the Washington Post article that heralded an assumed fact that the entire universe would soon quit accelerating and may even decelerate. Sometimes one…Read more

Well, isn’t that just… something? No.  No, it isn’t something… real; it is a misinterpretation of data attempting to force the universe into a model in which it does…Read more

This article was extracted from one I wrote for Gift of Fire, issue 133, 46-47 (November 2002). There is more to knowledge than a vague familiarity, or lexicographical and…Read more