{"id":208,"date":"2005-01-26T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-27T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/we-get-letters\/"},"modified":"2005-01-26T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-27T00:21:00","slug":"we-get-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/26\/we-get-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"We get letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not everyone is appreciative of our efforts to explain dark energy to a wider audience. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>From: [redacted]@aol.com\n<br \/>Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:19:00 EST\n<br \/>Subject: dark junk hoax\n<br \/>To: carroll@theory.uchicago.edu\n<br \/>\n<br \/>i am amazed you morons are trying to keep this crap alive...along  with \n<br \/>'inflation'....hawking as i do thinks it is junk.....why cant you  acknowledge that \n<br \/>hoyle, narlikar, and burbridge are right with their ideas  published 3-4 yrs \n<br \/>ago...i know that none of you can admit that halton arp is  dead right with \n<br \/>his postulate that redshift is not solely distance  related.....the whole of us \n<br \/>and british scientific punditry have so much  reputations at stake that they \n<br \/>will never accord hoyle, arp and others the  recognition due......and you fools \n<br \/>have wasted 30 yrs and billions of dollars in  an obscece 'cover-your-ass'  \n<br \/>endeavor...you make me sick<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> If anyone&#8217;s interested, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.ucla.edu\/~wright\/errors.html\">Ned Wright<\/a> has done a thorough job of explaining why some &#8220;alternatives&#8221; to the Big Bang are all miserable failures.  My own intemperate thoughts are <a href=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.blogspot.com\/2004_05_01_preposterousuniverse_archive.html#108586909898146749\">here<\/a>.  Amazing to me how emotional people get about this.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not everyone is appreciative of our efforts to explain dark energy to a wider audience. 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&#8230;along with &#8216;inflation&#8217;&#8230;.hawking as i do thinks it is junk&#8230;..why cant you acknowledge that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}