https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1108.4864/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15063718urn:hackerpapers:mention:1108.4864:15063718Mon, 21 Aug 2017 11:27:31 GMT<p>&gt; not shown any evidence of their existence What? Do you deny that highly similar spiral galaxes seen face-on are roughly similar in star-count? Do you deny the observation that there are highly similar spiral galaxies that occupy very different angular diameters on the sky? Do you deny the observation that spiral galaxies with lower angular diameters have higher redshifts? And that the redshifts squeeze the entire emissions spectrum from such galaxies? Do you deny the Lyman-alpha forest? These are all observations that someone with a decent back-yard observatory could make on his or her own.…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1108.4864/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.hist-ph