Talk:Alexander Kashlinsky

Merge with dark flow

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested merge. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the merge request was no consensus to merge. – Paine Ellsworth  (  C LIMAX   )  00:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Oppose. Re: merge proposal with dark flow I don't believe these articles should be merged, one a biography and the other a theory. Lee&there4;V (talk • contribs) 20:59, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Agreed, a person is not defined by a discovery. Especially not a currently living and researching person! 24.18.243.189 (talk) 13:47, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose. -I don't think it should be merged. One is a biography the other a physics theory page..--helohe (talk)  21:18, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose. This scientist is notable for more than just the discovery of Dark Flow.  At this point, what I'm about to point out appears to be OR, so it cannot yet be added to either article.  If the coordinates of the area of space where the Dark Flow is headed are compared with those of the Great Attractor, then it is found that they are almost precisely the same.  Our galaxy is moving, and out in front of the Milky Way is this anomalous area of space that we are moving toward.  That anomaly was first discovered by a team of astronomers led by Shapley in the early part of the 20th century.  Not just the Milky Way, but an enormous number of galaxies are headed for that same area of space.  Then in 1973, that area of space was rediscovered by a different team of astronomers, and it was then named the Great Attractor.  Since such an anomaly flies "SLAP IN THE FACE" against the presently accepted Big Bang model, it has been pretty much "swept under the rug".  Now recently, this scientist leads a team that rediscovered that same anomaly in that same area of space again, and this time the flow of galaxies is dubbed Dark Flow.  And again this stirs controversy with Big Bang cosmologists.  So this particular rediscoverer of that anomalous area of space can be considered just as notable as any before him who discovered and then rediscovered this anomaly.  In my opinion, Alexander Kashlinsky is notable enough to be in a separate article.  I hope that soon the connection between the Great Attractor and Dark Flow becomes official.  Until it does, and we can cite a reliable source to that effect, then the connection between the two discoveries of this enigma is original research. –  Paine Ellsworth  (  C LIMAX   )  23:56, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
 * ''The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested merge. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.