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Re: “Racial purity” DNA test slammed as perversion, but (June 18): Since many scientists are now seeing that we have a mix of pure humans and those humans with Neanderthal genes in them, continuing to show racial purity by color is meaningless. Maybe we can see from the DNA studies how close that Hungarian politician is to his Neanderthal descendants.
Re: Spate of recent big quakes looks like a fluke, scientists say (Aug. 2): I just read your article on the great earthquakea fluke taking place in the last few years. However, I would like to point out that the Haiti quake was mistakenly added to the list, along other seismic events in the likes of Sumatra, Japan and Chile. Haiti’s was merely 7.0 and though it caused a lot of deaths because of the lack of a building code and the stranglinf pocerty of its people, it cannot enter such list. We had a 7.4 a few months ago in the state of Guerrero, which severely rattled the buildings of Mexico City. However very little damage was caused because we have better building codes and that pays off in the end. On the other hand, earthquakea such as the ones that took place in Indonesia in April this year deserve a place in your list, as they surpassed the 8. 5 mark. Really, Haiti has no place there.
Re: Instead of “dark matter,” rogue planets? (May 13): I like the article. It actually attempts to report a possibility that may well be true. Since it explains a possible outcome for the data at hand, I would also like to point out that it isn’t just in our galaxy, but outside of all of them too. They just didn’t get sent out at perfect planes but Randomly. I am glad that dark matter is being attacked. They jumped to a conclusion so fast, they may cause problems when the facts come in. It isn’t just that the dark matter and dark energy creation that is causing us to look away from facts, but the millions invested so far in it’s search may prove hard to resist. It’s like trying to find a Higgins particle for a billion dollars, or try to count the planets outside of stellar orbits for 12, 000 a year... Which would we choose? If Hawking is right, and information IS being destroyed inside a black hole, then it would also account for the lost. 13 billion years of black holes sucking the mass out of the universe would account for much of the loss already. Rogue planets would account for the rest. As for the information, it entered the grandfather paradox. It returned to the first point (the only point) at the beginning and was created to be destroyed again. It would also throw a monkey into the proverbial wrench on the “Expanding Universe”. Light would have to fight gravitational drag, and thus, Shift to red.
Re: Long-sought Higgs particle probab ly found, scientistssay (July 4): Hawking is simply wrong in accepting it. Obviously wrong. Everyone who accepts the story of the Higgs particle is simply wrong. Plain commonsense.
Singularity and the Big Bang MUST have happened with the smallest base universe particles, the gravitons, that MUST be both energy and mass, even if they are inert mass just one smallest fraction of a second at singularity. All mass formats evolve from gravitons that convert into energy i. e. extricate from their gravitons clusters into mass formats in motion, energy. And they all end up again as mass in a repeat singularity.
Universe expansion and re contraction proceed simultaneously. .
Re: Long-sought Higgs particle probab ly found, scientistssay (July 4): Hawking is simply wrong in accepting it. Obviously wrong. Everyone who accepts the story of the Higgs particle is simply wrong. Plain commonsense.
Singularity and the Big Bang MUST have happened with the smallest base universe particles, the gravitons, that MUST be both energy and mass, even if they are inert mass just one smallest fraction of a second at singularity. All mass formats evolve from gravitons that convert into energy i. e. extricate from their gravitons clusters into mass formats in motion, energy. And they all end up again as mass in a repeat singularity.
Universe expansion and re contraction proceed simultaneously. .
