Mars, Mercury May Have Formed From Earth and Venus

goran72 sends along a report on a radical new theory of planet formation that suggests that Mars and Mercury were formed from the scraps of Earth and Venus. The theory has testable predictions — for example that the compositions of the rocky inner planets should be more similar than the current theory of planet formation would have them.

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Re:Falsifiability

[UnknownSoldier]

> And if it's like any other mainstream astronomical theory, the testable predictions really won't matter. At all. If those predictions are found to be false, they'll just make a long series of ad-hoc modifications to the theory in order to "save" it instead of seriously questioning their worldview/paradigm/framework (whatever you care to call it) because of the pseudoscientific disaster that astronomy has become.

That's true of any institution -- it eventually becomes self-serving to maintain the status-quo because that is in its best interest for its own survival. Science, sadly, is not unique in this.

And like they say, "Science progresses one funeral at a time."

> Edwin Hubble and the fact that there are two equally valid interpretations of the redshift equation and we have settled the question of which to use by making an assumption.

Actually the story gets even weirder! Halton C. Arp a professional astronomer, who ironically enough, was Edwin Hubble's assistant (!), proved the "redshift equals distance" is junk science.
http://www.electric-cosmos.org/arp.htm

> When astronomy has a crisis in the next 5-10 years or so, perhaps most of you will be surprised.

Actually, the sh!t hits the fan and the real party starts when they find human skulls on Mars -- that will be the big "WTF?" moment in astronomy, cosmology, and religion, but not sure if that will happen in the next 10 years, as the exact date is not important. The fact that a paradigm shift WILL happen in Science, is only thing that DOES matter.

Its about time for us to remember where we came from.
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You are a Spiritual Being in a Human Body have a Physical Experience.

Re:Falsifiability

[causality]

I wish I had mod points today, thanks for posting that. It was an excellent and constructive criticism.

Haha, that didn't stop the mods from deciding that a post about problems with astronomy during a discussion about astronomy is somehow -1 Offtopic. Ah well, it wouldn't be the first time someone was just a little too eager to find an excuse to dismiss or silence me or any other critical thinker. I hope others react to that the same way that I do, which is to realize that these are small-minded men who are easily threatened when you challenge their pet beliefs and that therefore, the worst thing you could do is allow their little temper tantrums (in the form of abusing the moderation system) to discourage you.