re: Not an Arp fan
Well, as I mentioned in the other "half" of the thread, it's not just Arp, he's just the most well-known and the "first" to question things (as you say, the iconoclast of the group; and it's definitely hard to go against dogma; maybe that's why they call it dogma, it bites back). I also agree with your distaste of the growing complexity of the "standard model" to account for stuff it found "completely unexpected." Black holes, quasars, pulsars, dark matter/energy, etc. etc. One thing after another. You'd think by now they'd be amazed the universe even exists at all with all the myriad materials ad forces involved... Lord knows I am, with the overly complex and elaborate schemes. *Evil pinky gesture*