Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms

Now consider that, at the time of the Big Bang, the entire cosmos was in a quantum state. When the Big Bang is observed, say with a radio telescope, it is changed by the observer (Copenhagen). What is the nature of this change? One can only supposes that the universe is changed to make the observation itself more likely; that is, to optimize the universe for the being to see furthest back in time, and to ’see’ in the most detail. That being would be the Maximal Observer.

This explains the mechanism behind the Anthropic Principle.

The question is, to what extent should we fund astronomy? Are we in a universal race to see furthest back in time? Mr. President, we cannot allow a Radio Telescope Gap !!!

@terry9

If you really want to expand your mind further to the cutting edge, consider the possibility that the Big Bang never happened! There’s a rather interesting book by that name: “The Big Bang Never Happened”. I think it’s been decades since I read it, but I might be reading it now…perhaps I never stopped?

Back in the day, ’Big Bang’ was a derogatory name for the theory that eventually came to dislodge ’Steady State’. Perhaps it’s time for the pendulum to swing back.

I used to commute with a Lady, who's husband is a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, as a result of their work in astronomy, where the supplied coordinates were located by all the major Institutions known for observing Space.

Curved light was discovered at a particular coordinate, that is now strongly suspected as being the point the Big Bang occurred.

The Theory has moved forward a few steps and the Hypothesis is certainly one that has extended and created a new era of Math. 

A 9" pivoted tonearm using the Lofgrin A pivot to stylus distance and a 30-degree offset has a tracking error less than 2% and this causes second order harmonic distortion far below that of a SET amplifier, which is inaudible. Good luck mounting a cartridge to the nearest degree. This is why linear tracking tonearms are no advantage over the advantages of pivoted tonearms.