Great. I'm sure you've eliminated all other *possible* sources of polarized photons, right?
Yeah, that's kind of the point. Unless by possible we're including photon torpedoes, spaghetti monsters, etc. etc. etc.
Er right. You have three laboratory falsifications of your precious exotic matter theory over 8 months, and that you just sweep under the carpet.
Pardon?
Meanwhile you hand me exactly *one* paper, claim it's evidence of your exotic invisible thingamabobs and insist I deal with your *one* tiny spectrum of light as though it's the *only* relevant topic in the whole of astronomy.
You think only one spectrum is involved?
Nevermind that it's a GR prediction, not an *inflation* prediction.
No, it's an inflationary prediction because it
relies on GR (you know, empirically tested physics, what we base most theories on). Inflationary theories predict that we should see CMB fluctuations in this pattern. Non-inflationary theories predict(ed) that we should NOT see these fluctuations. Simple as that.
At least give me a day or two to read it over and think about it would ya? Holy cow.
Just a day?
I guess if you toss out enough "predictions", one of them is bound to be a hit
Neat that it's one of the biggies, fundamental to any theory that the universe did not remain static.
even if three of them fail entirely.
Except that they didn't.
If you then sweep the failures under the rug
You are quite literally the only person who sees them as failures, from your unqualified point of view. How's the armchair?
and hail the one successful prediction of your model as the *only important thing* you've discovered over the past 18 months
try the century
, you sure make it sound nice.
It's awesome
When did gravity wave show up in LIGO experiments?
not got down to the sensitivity levels needed, not even close (but that's changing quickly)
Oh ya, never. When did you tie inflation to patterns in such LIGO experiments via exhaustive empirical testing? Oh ya, never.
Because the patterns aren't in LIGO, they're in the CMB
I'm open to an expanding universe of moving *objects*.
Meaningless sentence in terms of GR. Meaningless.
I'm not prepared to *immediately assume* that all polarized photons are the result of gravitational waves however.
They're quite clearly not. These ones, almost certainly are.
Translation: "I've found an unexplained gap in our understanding in which I've inserted my magical invisible friends! Your turn to disprove it!"
No, we've found an empirically tested measurement of fluctuations in the CMB that exactly match the model of a gravitational wave perturbation from the primordial universe inflated to present size. Your turn.
Give me a break! You can't even rationally explain where dark energy comes from
Or what it is. Whoop di doo.
or demonstrate that inflation has *any* tangible effect on a photon.
If the theory is correct, the wavelength independent cosmological redshift demonstrates that perfectly
Why do you lack belief in God again?
Or Allah, or Zeus or whoever? Because they are all equal glimpses of the untrue.
How come you dead deities can't do anything in the present moment in a real life experiment?
They're doing plenty, if these findings are correct, which it seems awfully like they are, which is why you're panicking.
False. I handed you a link to to a polarization source.
There are literally countless polarization sources. What matter is what they
do, where they are and the signals they produce. Yours was not a source in the CMB and thus irrelevant.
You simply ignored it entirely.
It's irrelevant.
You didn't bother explaining how you ruled it out
Because it didn't come from the CMB, which these signals demonstrably do
or how you can be sure the patterns are *absolutely* related to gravity waves.
No...it could be God screwing with us. But mathematically they match gravitational wave fluctuations from the primordial universe inflated to scales that match what we would expect, and that have been predicted for a couple of decades. So yeah, you've got a job to do to explain what ELSE could produce them, especially in your cosmology that says they shouldn't exist.
You certainly can't demonstrate inflation is even related to gravity waves in the first place.
It's not. Why would we want to do that?
It's one gigantic affirming the consequent fallacy from start to finish.
And the Chen paper proves tired light "in the lab" (despite being completely irrelevant, incomplete as your purpose and not anything to do with your topic). It's really not, unless you set stupid standards.
So even if we live in an expanding universe, what does that have to do with inflation?
Great question. Inflation is merely a type of expanding universe.
That was another paper on GR which you simply ignored.
No, that paper was about Friedmann empty universe explanations of our space-time metric. It didn't suggest that the universe expanded, merely that our space-time lent the illusion of expansion, but never mind.
How about moving *plasma* sources, like that million degree plasma around our galaxy, and out in space? How about those Birkeland currents and other options?
1959ApJ...130..241W Page 241
Motion of particles within space-time is not motion of the coordinates of space-time, which is what GR postulates. Do you not understand this? If you bring up motion of particles within space-time - plasma, blancmange or last sunday's breakfast - none of this is relevant whilst discussing GR, which doesn't specifically talk about space-time as fixed immovable points. Learn what comoving coordinates are and why the notion of a fixed space-time isn't what GR is talking bout.

I just sat down with a cup of coffee, and I intend to read it. I'll comment on it when I've had the luxury of actually reading through it.
Great. You kind of dismissed it without reading through it, so I suppose that's a marginal improvement.
Suffice to say your commentary isn't real impressive, nor is your attitude. I'm supposed to just *ignore* six separate falsifications of your galaxy mass estimates and various claims about exotic matter
None of which come anywhere close to anything useful, and none of which say what you think they say. Your attitude is "you all must be wrong, I'll just figure out why later". Sure.
Meanwhile you whip up a new affirming the consequent fallacy paper as "gospel" without so much as demonstrating any tangible connection between gravity waves and your impotent sky thingies, and I'm supposed to just ignore your failures entirely? Wow.
I think the paper you mention is the very paper we discuss? Not sure. Whatever. Read away.