Re:Gravitational Waves: The Silent Disaster
by fantastisch on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @04:57AM
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well I've got a crazy theory for you, then.
I actually think there's something like a black hole inside nearly every Star.
Not just a dark core. But a region of emptiness.
BTW would it be possible to have an antimatter star? Like ball of antimatter interacting at the surface with matter and looking like a star
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Re:Gravitational Waves: The Silent Disaster
by robocat on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @02:52PM
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I am just a random founder from NZ that initially joined hn for conversation about entrepreneurship. I have no axe to grind with you.
I personally find your accusation offensive, I didn’t know anything about you before your post came up the other day and I read some of your other material because it was interesting. I promise you I am not targeting you, I just really dislike it when people post comments that are deceptive (talking about yourself in third person is a deceptive practice in my opinion).
I think your comment is disingenuous: you are the only submitter of articles from Kirsten Hacker: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=kirstenhacker.wordpre...
It takes some effort to get banned on HN (and ban is clearly removed now): https://kirstenhacker.wordpress.com/2020/04/29/ive-been-blac... and personally I think her recent article is a pointless rant: https://kirstenhacker.wordpress.com/2020/04/29/evolution-of-...
I had looked through her site earlier today - lots of skepticism without good follow-through reasoning that can be evaluated.
Examples: “I don’t really believe that black holes exist because I think that theorists got drunk on general relativity and invented them.“ - https://kirstenhacker.wordpress.com/2019/08/24/signs-of-the-...
It is science to question everything, but it is also science to look for flaws in ones own guesses. https://kirstenhacker.wordpress.com/2019/09/05/blue-skies/ questions Raleigh scattering, but it then seems to accept those questions as equals (her article reads like bad journalism, or evolution vs intelligent design.)
Finally, you are framing this as sexism, which I think will usually give you a poor response. Sexism exists, and it is hard to find effective ways to fight it, but some approaches do more harm than good.
Edit: PS: I do think Kirsten Hacker’s articles are interesting, and a bit of her scepticism seems reasonable and valid to my ignorant eyes: hopefully scientists can use her criticism when it has value. Also if Kirsten wishes to be able to say “I was right” then I think her targets need to be more focused and well argued — if she is sceptical about everything and cherry picking her supporting material, then there is no signal in the noise, and there will be zero recognition for any “predictions”.