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From: [redacted]@aol.com

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:19:00 EST

Subject: dark junk hoax

To: carroll@theory.uchicago.edu



i am amazed you morons are trying to keep this crap alive...along  with 

'inflation'....hawking as i do thinks it is junk.....why cant you  acknowledge that 

hoyle, narlikar, and burbridge are right with their ideas  published 3-4 yrs 

ago...i know that none of you can admit that halton arp is  dead right with 

his postulate that redshift is not solely distance  related.....the whole of us 

and british scientific punditry have so much  reputations at stake that they 

will never accord hoyle, arp and others the  recognition due......and you fools 

have wasted 30 yrs and billions of dollars in  an obscece 'cover-your-ass'  

endeavor...you make me sick

If anyone's interested, Ned Wright has done a thorough job of explaining why some "alternatives" to the Big Bang are all miserable failures. My own intemperate thoughts are here. Amazing to me how emotional people get about this.

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