Voyager 1 Spotted from Earth with radio antennas

[Phil]

Ah, Richard, you have thereby hit the proverbial cosmic nail on the nub of the focus of the fulcrum of the head. Three decades of concerted searching for Dark Matter by the world's best scientists has so far yielded nothing but Dark Zilch, Nix, Nada. This is almost unprecedented in the history of scientific endeavour. In fact, the best comparison is possibly the long hunt for the aether. And we all know how that turned out, don't we? Even the Higgs boson turned up, eventually (it had been accidentally kicked under the rug).

Call me irrational and foolish, but my money is very much on Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation being just a little bit less elegant than the mathematicians and physicists would like it to be, and just a little less Universal. It could solve so many otherwise intractable problems.

Phil M1GWZ



On 17 Sep 2013, at 15:41, Richard O'Neill wrote:

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>   I'm no fan of 'Dark Matter / Energy'. So far we haven't been able to see, touch, smell, taste or otherwise prove its existence. As with string theory, I consider it all just theoretical speculation. For now though, I'm more concerned with what's for lunch. :-) 
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> Richard
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> On 9/17/2013 6:41 AM, Phil wrote:
>> "The initial observations, which were made on February 21, placed Voyager very near, but not precisely at its predicted location. The difference was a few tenths of an arcsecond. An arcsecond is the apparent size of a penny as seen from 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) away. The second observations on June 1 produced similar results."
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>> This observation is very interesting because the same thing has been noted with the Pioneer probes. The small error could be explained easily if Newton's theory of gravitation were to be modified with a small second-order component. The significance of this is that, if it were accepted that Newton's Law is merely a (very good) approximation, the need to find the the so-far undetectable "dark matter" in the Universe goes away - we don't need the extra mass to explain our astronomical observations. It astonishes me that the vast majority of scientists still insist that Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation is absolute and exact.
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>> Phil M1GWZ
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>> On 17 Sep 2013, at 03:51, 3t3 wrote:
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>>> ALCON -
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>>> Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and Green Bank Telescope (GBT) spotted the faint radio glow from NASA's famed Voyager 1 spacecraft -- the most distant man-made object.
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>>> www.space-travel.com/reports/Voyager_1_Spotted_from_Earth_with_NRAOs_VLBA_and_GBT_Telescopes_999.html 
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