Yes, just what I expected. Another rant against the mainstream. Is DECam a camera? Yes.
It's a camera that images standard photons and maybe the amount of redshift. It doesn't image "dark energy", nor is it a "dark energy camera". The name they selected is bogus from the start!
Did they make it to look for signs of dark energy? Yes. That's it.
No, that's not it. They called it a 'dark energy camera', implying *cause* in the very *name* they gave to the camera!
No one said that dark energy itself is going to show up on the photos, no matter how badly you want to put words in people's mouths.
Right. They stilled called a "dark energy camera". Not a single "scientist" bothered to mention the fact that all they actually observe is cosmic redshift and at least three empirical forms of plasma redshift have been observed in the lab. All they did it *assume* a cause, claim a cause, and state a cause, but other than that, they were entirely blameless!
What, "the nature of dark energy"? How's that misleading?
They can't determine the 'nature of dark energy', just the nature and/or cause of "cosmic redshift". The term "dark energy" implies a cause that is not in evidence.
Sorry to say that everyone except your tiny fringe of cosmology agrees that something weird is going on with cosmic expansion.
cosmologystatement.org
FYI there was a growing group of disenfranchised scientists complaining about BB theory even before I got involved in EU/PC theory. Something "weird" has been going on since BB theory gave way to Guthanity.
They never made it a secret that they don't know what "dark energy" is.
They don't even know if dark energy actually exists! They only know that redshift happens. They have no idea as to the 'cause' of that pattern of redshift. There isn't even solid evidence of 'acceleration', let alone any evidence that 'dark energy did it'.
(In fact, the first quote calls it a mystery right in this article.) Figuring out the nature of "dark energy" is a perfectly legitimate research objective, and it can hardly be false advertising if that's genuinely what they hope to accomplish with DECam.
But the "mystery" isn't actually "dark energy", it's "cosmic redshift".
Can you then suggest some experiments to distinguish whether cosmological redshift is caused by spacetime expansion or some weird plasma effect?
Sure:
http://vixra.org/pdf/1105.0010v1.pdf
Plasma cosmology is just as unable to experiment on the universe as standard cosmology. You can demonstrate plasma redshift in the lab as many times as you like, you'll still have to test whether the same thing is going on with galaxies billions of light years away. And by the nature of the problem, that test must rely on pure observation.
No, I don't have to rely upon pure observation, I can experiment in the lab to determine the *correct* type of redshift(s) that might result in such pure observations from space. That's way more than can be said for expansion claims based in invisible sky entities galore that fail to show up in any lab experiments.
Oh, I see. Putting your money where your mouth is would be too hard.
I'll admit, it is actually easier (and cheaper) to simply complain.
I'd have to pay actual money to a court and/or a layer to sue them. It's much more fun and gratifying to publicly point out their nonsense.
I can sympathise, but then maybe you shouldn't yell about suing people from the safety of your armchair.
Why not? If they can sit around from the safety of their armchair and claim dark energy is responsible for redshifted photon patterns without lifting a finger in the lab to prove it, I can certainly threaten to sue them from the safety of my armchair too.