Sorry for another black hole question

[gmalivuk]

And fresh, new minds often take their physical theories from metaphors in popular books and try to put them on the same level as rigorous mathematical treatment and end up in all sorts of trouble.

Or, worse, from movies about women who claim to be channeling people who lived 35 millennia ago...

[Yakk]

Fresh, new minds who hold ignorance as a virtue are not useful. :)

Put forward your theory. Admit your ignorance. Work to eliminate your ignorance.

I tossed out a number of possible problems about your theory: as an example, the degree of uniformity in the spectrum of the microwave background radiation.

If you want to seriously see if your theory holds water, at least do a small amount of minimal grunt work: Run the calculus on what it would look like being in part of a large explosion with an actual starting 'location'. See how it compares to space itself expanding.

Any heat gradients? Any doppler effect differences?

I don't think you'll manage to upset the big bang theory, but you might just teach yourself something.

If you are unable or unwilling to learn the language of science (mathematics), then you will be chronically incapable of determining if your own ideas are poor or not. :)

[Amaroq]

Well, I guess that discredits me.

I'm an aspiring programmer, not a mathematician. The kind of mathematics required to test my theory are outside the scope of my knowledge.

So while I rather like my theories, and feel that they aren't just something I pulled outta my ass, theories are all they will ever be.

God help me if I ever have to learn those kinds of mathematics. xD
I can work on php all day, but I couldn't even stay awake during normal math classes...

[une see]

Yes! Twenty-ninth person to pick option 3. Metaphysics is always fun. (Correct me if I'm not using the right word here.)

[Vaniver]

Just saying that relative lack of experience on a certain subject shouldn't stop one from participating in that subject.

And this is the fundamental problem with Wikipedia.

So while I rather like my theories, and feel that they aren't just something I pulled outta my ass, theories are all they will ever be.

To a scientist or a person who works with actual theories, the use of them to describe opinions and notions is insulting. If it's a theory, it's rigorously explained and can be tested. If it can't be rigorously explained or tested, it's not.