Re: Hawking and distance of stars

mccoy@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Lee Jay wrote:
> > I already proved that, with instruments available today (accurate to a
> > milliarcsecond), and the base distance of the Earth's diameter (which
> > is a lot more than an inch), you can measure accurately out to hundreds
> > of light years.
>
> I don't know how many times I need to stress the point, but you can't
> prove the accuracy of any instrument that measures supposed light years
> unless you can travel to that destination.

We are not proving the accuracy of an instrument that measures light
years, we are proving the accuracy of an instrument that measures
angles. Can you see the difference there? So it's a 2-step process.
We can prove that we can measure the angles by doing tests on those
instruments here on Earth (and in space as well) and we can prove
mathematically that, if we can measure the angles, we can compute the
distance. Perhaps you just aren't capable of understanding a process
that takes more than one step to understand.

> This is the second time that I've debated this subject on talk.origins.
> And the same arguments have been recycled replete with so-called
> satellite. My intent of the post was, however, to establish the fact
> that Stephen Hawking states that the distance of stars was determined
> by the luminosity of the nearest star which was determined by knowledge
> of the distance of the nearest star. And of course this is absurd
> because the distance of the nearest star is not known.

Except that that distance is known plus that explaination is overly
simplistic anyway.

Lee Jay

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