Re: i dared... (a li'l here for you too, mara)
Posted by DA Morgan on Jun 05, 2002 at 11:59
(156.74.250.7)Re: i dared... (a li'l here for you too, mara) (anyman)
You ask:
"why? ...because we have faith in our apriori philosophical commitment to billions of years and a particular topology"My response:
I thought you had a college degree in something with more intellectual content than pottery 101?Because the laws of physics don't allow spiral galaxies to hold together unless there is substantially more mass than we can see.
Of course we could always posit that some invisible incarnation such as Santa Claus keeps all the spiral galaxies together ... but I don't think you could sell to many reviewers on that concept.