physics for ex-farmers

Well the papers are with the institute of physics. It's got past the
editor and the web tracking page tells me that two referees have felt
unable to report, but it has been with a third for about 10 days now,
so
presumably he is having a shot. I expect it to take at least a couple
of
months before he reports.

Meanwhile I come more and more to the feeling that I am still missing a

vital piece of the jigsaw concerning the Pioneer acceleration and MOND.

I am reasonably happy that the analysis given is basically right, and I

am pretty convinced that I now know how to extend it to the Milky Way.
The teleconnection removes the undetermined interpolation function from

MOND, and gives a better fit with data in the intermediate regime than
MOND, but I am still having trouble with the solar system.

I don't think there is anything that conclusively shows this, but the
indications seem to be that if the doppler anomaly is present in the
inner solar system it would have been picked up in other measurements
than Pioneer. Possibly a MONDian anomaly should have been picked up in
the Earths motion from Pioneer, although I think the analysis shows
that
isn't the case.

Trouble is, while the measurements are extremely accurate, they are not

at all simple, which makes analysis difficult, especially for a mathmo
with no great background in physics and almost none in engineering.

But I think the fundamental problem is that I still can't state clearly

the condition under which the anomalous shift is observed. I have gone
back to thinking that it has to do with continuous measurement in a
reference frames. As it seems to me everything in the inner solar
system
contained in well defined reference frame, defined by classical
motions.
Under such circumstances quantum wave functions are constantly
collapsing to yield classical motions, and with that we should expect
also classical Doppler measurements.

For a distant galaxy, there is no way it can be considered as part of
the same classical reference frame as the solar system, and under such
circumstances I expect an anomalous shift, yielding the MONDian law.

My original thought was that Pioneer was not bound to the solar system,

ergo the anomalous shift, and I have gone back to thinking this is
probably the answer. But if that is the case I should be able to write
down a clear criterion as to why Pioneer cannot be treated as a
classical motion in the solar system. As you remember, I thought it was

because it was in a non-bound orbit, a solution much scorned by Oz. But

I don't think it is as simple as that, because it raises the issue of
why bound orbits in the Milky way exhibit a shift, whereas those in the

solar system don't.

That's when I started expecting the shift would be present even in
bound
orbits in the solar system. I can't fully write off this possibility,
because I can't find a clear test, but given the uses to which Doppler
has been put it now seems less likely that it would not have been
noticed.

Meanwhile I have found indication within the Galaxy which may yield a
clear result. The distance to the Pleiades has been measured by
parallax
using the Hipparcos satellite. This is not consistent with other
determinations which use Doppler as part of the method. It is about 10%

lower. They now think the Hipparcos measurement was in error (will be
repeated with greater accuracy by Gaia, due for launch in 2011). But if

true orbital velocities are less than currently thought, the other
method would also give a lower result. Haven't calculated yet, but I am

moving to Cambridge this month and mean to settle down to it after the
move. If the Hipparcos meausurement turns out to be right, it will
alter
the Cepheid scale and increase Hubble's constant by 10%, much closer
the
value of Hc given by Pioneer, and I will get a better fit with big bang

nucleosynthesis too.
--
Best regards

Charles Francis

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