Re: We do not know the distance of stars

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mvill...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
mccoy@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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[comment: impossible to get equilateral triangles for astronomical
work.]


You're absolutely right BTW, for the most part you can't really measure
interstellar distances in a geometric manner. But you're going to let
that stop you? You can't think of another way to work around this
problem?

Man if I had that attitude I'd be fired from my job long before my
morning coffee break. You must have a job that doesn't have to deal
with these types of problems. Good for you!

Actually the truth be told, if you speculated on the distance of the
star and made certain claims nobody could verify it and nobody could
find a way to test it, so if your employer, some guy who isn't well
versed in surveying had your results, he may accept your answer given
that perhaps you had a Ph.D attached to your name.

Two ifs, one may, and one perhaps. Wotsamatter, McCoy, have you got some
doubts?

Just be sure to put on thick-rimmed glasses.

Ding! Stereotype. What about the white lab coat, huh? Huh? And the
clipboard?

It's interesting that the so-called
distances of stars continue to hold sway even though there is no way to
verify the distances.

Of course there is a way. Build yourself a big expensive telescope and go
make the observations yourself. You do know that astronomers at many
different observatories have measured the same stars, don't you? With
essentially similar results? Just to check on each other?

And why? One reason is that the age of the
universe is propped up by the supposed pseudo-distances. That's the
number one error.

You haven't established that there is an error. Just innuendo.

The second error is that such distances have been
accepted without challenge. In other words everybody assumed that
somebody had it right in the first place.

Not an assumption, but something that has been checked and cross-checked.

Incidentally, how do you explain the fact that the "moving cluster method"
for the Hyades gives a distance similar to that found from the parallaxes?
Evil Conspiracy? (tm)

Such is the
compartmentalization in various fields and perhaps in astronomy itself.
Many have sought answers to other astronomical questions based on the
assumption that these ages were correct in the first place. But sooner
or later the dam is going to burst.

Is it? If there are problems, how come every observation and experiment
tends to confirm the earlier results, rather than blowing a hole in them?

This is inevitable. It happened in
geology with people questioning uniformitarianism. It happened in
embryology with the biogenetic law and Haeckel's charts.

JM


Oh. The book with the orange cover. Now I get it.

<ironic smiley mode>As an astronomer, I thought I would never get the chance
to join a really evil conspiracy, like the guys who studied philosophy,
politics, and economics. I would just sit there each day, marking exams and
homework, occasionally getting a research result and writing it up. What a
dull life. Well, McCoy has opened my eyes, let me tell you!! I'm heading
straight to the Observatory, to burn all the scientific journals and
catalogues, then I'll stop by the nearby churches and synagogues, maybe a
mosque or two, then lunch. After that I'll grow a long thin moustache that
I can twirl while secretly practicing my leer and evil laugh.

Boy is it FUN to suddenly find yourself part of the Conspiracy!</ironic
smiley mode>

(Good grief McCoy, do you have any idea how much of an idiot you have made
yourself look?? "There is no science, just a big conspiracy against Jeebus,
and all those stars are actually luminous dots painted on the inside of a
big dome.")

--
Mike Dworetsky

(Remove "pants" spamblock to send e-mail)

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