{"id":2719,"date":"2012-01-20T13:59:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T21:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/?p=2719"},"modified":"2016-02-13T19:57:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T03:57:05","slug":"is-dark-matter-the-emperors-new-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/is-dark-matter-the-emperors-new-clothes\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Dark Matter &#8220;The Emperor\u2019s New Clothes?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2825\" style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/is-dark-matter-the-emperors-new-clothes\/narlikar\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2825\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2825\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2825\" title=\"Cosmology Professor Emeritus Jayant V. Narlikar\" src=\"http:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Narlikar.jpg\" alt=\"Cosmology Professor Emeritus Jayant V. Narlikar\" width=\"236\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cosmology Professor Emeritus Jayant V. Narlikar<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;To claim that you have simulated the Big Bang is like a schoolboy claiming after winning a high jump medal that he is close to jumping on to the moon.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.asianage.com\/columnists\/chasing-elusive-particle-206\">Esteemed Cosmologist Professor Emeritus Jayant V. Narlikar reports from a Cosmology Conference on the latest developments in Dark Matter, Gravitational Waves, FTL Neutrinos, Big Bang cosmologists hugely overstating their conclusions<\/a>, and a few other topics.<\/strong> <!--more--><strong>Professor Narlikar&#8217;s many decades of experience as a Big Bang skeptic provides a context to current Cosmology that should be required reading for all astrophysics students.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To claim that you have simulated the Big Bang is like a schoolboy claiming after winning a high jump medal that he is close to jumping on to the moon.&#8221; Esteemed Cosmologist Professor Emeritus Jayant V. Narlikar reports from a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/is-dark-matter-the-emperors-new-clothes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,46,27,15,14,45],"tags":[67,189,59,190,197],"class_list":["post-2719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-bang","category-dark","category-dark-matter","category-education","category-events","category-unobserved","tag-big-bang","tag-cosmology-conference","tag-dark-matter","tag-gravitational-waves","tag-professor-jayant-narlikar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}