Re: Galaxies without dark matter halos?

Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> The "dogma" has changed, motivated almost entirely by data.  No-one ever
> suggested that Omega was 0.3 and lambda 0.7 based on anything except
> data.  Thus, I would argue that the current standard model is primarily
> data driven.  Just because someone mistakenly elevates it to dogma
> doesn't make it automatically wrong.

Dogma is not automatically wrong.  (Just ask of the various churches.)
However, dogma is primarily of theoretical origin (or theological origin --
sometimes it's hard to divorce the two).   The two values you provided are
based on the dogma that omega = 1.0.

greywolf42
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