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From: Henri Wilson on 30 Jun 2005 05:17 On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 01:16:39 +0000 (UTC), bz <bz+sp(a)ch100-5.chem.lsu.edu> wrote: >H@..(Henri Wilson) wrote in news:6la6c1hcq62088s3q50bs98nri6tbarq7c@ >4ax.com: > >> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:19:52 +0000 (UTC), bz <bz+sp(a)ch100-5.chem.lsu.edu> >> wrote: >> >>>H@..(Henri Wilson) wrote in >>>news:ntr3c116fsqmuqunbm83fochjvniuh6r4o(a)4ax.com: >>> >>>> It might be worth looking at but I still think the effect would be far >>>> to small to detect in normal telescopes. What you want, Bob, is an >>>> extra long version. >>> >>>Or a phased array of telescopes. Aberration should show up quite nicely. >> >> Maybe. >> How would you know if it was real or not? > >How do we know if anything is real? We cross check against data from other >stars in the same region of the sky. We cross check against other cepheids. >We cross check against visual binaries, spectroscopic binaries, etc., etc. > >If there are c'=c+v photons out there, we should be able to detect them. You make it sound so simple. > >Active optics are going to revolutionize astronomy. > >Phased arrays of active optics will be awesome. Are 'active optics' your own invention? HW. www.users.bigpond.com/hewn/index.htm Sometimes I feel like a complete failure. The most useful thing I have ever done is prove Einstein wrong.
From: Henri Wilson on 30 Jun 2005 05:56 On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 02:35:37 +0000 (UTC), bz <bz+sp(a)ch100-5.chem.lsu.edu> wrote: >H@..(Henri Wilson) wrote in >news:iua6c192htva42b8dkla55und6pg6991ok(a)4ax.com: > >>> >>>c+v would produce, broadening of the lines. It should never produce >>>separate sets of lines because we should always be seeing some c photons >>>along with c+v and/or c-v photons. We should never see c-v only or c+v >>>only [barring a large, dark, eclipsing body that hides the star from our >>>view except when it is going away and/or approaching us]. >> >> I must interrupt. >> that is not correct as long as the observer is below the critical >> distance...and it normally is. > >You must remember that Arthur is explaining the strange waveshape of Algol, >which is a spectroscopic binary, as entirely due to BaT rather than due to a >close binary with mass streaming from one star to another. > >> If thermal source speeds are ignored, only one wavelength should be >> observed at any instant. Near a brightness peak, doppler shift could >> however change rather quickly from + to -. > >I disagree. By BaT, slower photons and more rapid photons are arriving at the >same time. This is what makes the star look brighter. Nah! Below the critical distance no light overtakes any other. Light from certain parts of the orbit bunches together. Light from other parts becomes more dispersed. >These photons will have different doppler shifts. >They will be arriving at the same time. >This will broaden the lines. No you are wrong on that one Bob. Run the 'wavefront' section of my now improved program and you will see. > >> One must also remember that all the stars we are considering are in >> orbit around something else and that something may or may not be cool >> and dark. So two distinct doppler patterns may be observed. That is the >> case for the star HD 81075 that Andersen keeps harping on. It is a >> binary pair of roughly equal size and in near circular orbit. > >If the 2nd body is cool & dark, there should NOT be signs of spectroscopic >binarys. No doubling of spectral lines. Cepheid don't usually show doubling >of spectral lines. Of course cepheids may also be part of a spectroscopic or >even optical binary system. In those cases you should see double lines. > >Of course, if the stars are different types, you will see the lines >characteristic of each type of star, showing doppler shift, but not doubling, >unless the lines represent lines found in both types of star. My theory is that most variables stars are either rotating around dark partners OR the partner is of such different size that its velocity is very different and it is way below the critical distance to the observer. The two members of a binary pair don't share the same critical distance. >>>> You have a strong prejudice in the speed of light being constant. >>> >>>I have a strong inclination to look at all available data. >>> >>>Until some c+v and c-v photons are detected in the laboratory, I will >>>need to see strong evidence before I will accept a c+v/c-v explanation >>>for a distant phenomina that has other explanations. > >> In any practical experiment, path lengths of millions of kms are >> required to compare OWLS from differently moving sources. >> There is not much chance of finding them in a lab. > >Practical experiment and path length of millions of kms do not go together. > >We do NOT need OWLS to establish c'=c+v. >All we need is a rapidly moving source that we can control the speed of and >TOFLS. Bob, do the sums please. You keep asking ME to do the same. > >>>Extraordinary claims require extraordianary evidence. >>> >>>> I,BEING objective, decided to add the velocity of the star to the >>>> velocity of light to see if it reproduces the same data. It does. >>>> Having the simpler model of the system, I win. >>> >>>If you can explain the LACK of c+v/c-v photons in the laboratory, or >>>produce some. >>> >>>Perhaps you can have someone build a railgun and have them catapult a >>>small laser diode/battery in a vacuum chamber. Accelerate the laser to a >>>few thousand mph. Measure the time of flight speed of the photons >>>emitted by the laser. Show that they were going faster than c. >>>Or use my earlier suggestion of mounting a laser at the hub of a >>>spinning wheel and using fiber optics to conduct the light from the >>>laser to launch it tangentially to the edge of the wheel, thereby having >>>a captive moving source that should, using an ultracentrifuge rotor for >>>a wheel, allow you to reach supersonic speeds with your light source. >>> >>>But, before c+v/c-v light is acceptable, it MUST be demonstrable in the >>>laboratory or someone is going to have to come up with a very good >>>explanation of why it is NOT observable. Henri has NOT come up with such >>>an explanation. >> >> But you simpy cannot perform an experiment of this nature on Earth. >> Even if you did it on the tops of two high mountains 30 kms apart, the >> biggest travel time differences are going to be too small to detect. > >It could be done with a good scope. We don't need 30 km. 3 would do fine. > >2,500 mph, 3700 ft/s is 3.72 ppm of c. >We should be able to measure a change of 3 ppm in the speed of light, >shouldn't we? > >A 10 cm radius disk spinning at 106,722 rpm would give you that kind of speed >at the edge. Ultra centrifuges spin that fast. > >So, we have to run in a vacuum. Spin both ways, you have 7.44 ppm. >Light travels 3000 meters in 10 microseconds. >If we used a 3 km path, we could expect to see changes equivalent to 1.1 cm >change in path length. light takes about 3E-11 to move that far. > >Short term stability is all that is needed. We just need long enough to spun >up and down in both directions. You do it Bob. > >> The maximum practical source velocity is never going to be much larger >> than about 0.0000002c. (Remember you must be able to determine its exact >> position). You will be trying to detect time differences of around 10^11 >> seconds. > >You are talking about 1e-5 ppm. I am talking about 6 ppm. >You are talking about 134 mph. I am talking about 2500 mph. >You are talking about 5721 rpm. I am talking about 100,000 rpm. You are talking about measuring the light travel time, NOT the diffference in two travel times. Your '6ppm' is what you need to measure OWLS to one significant figure. >Of course, if you want higher speeds, rifles have muzzle velocities of over >5000 fps. Fire a mirror or laser like a bullet. You have to know exactly where it is when it reflects/emits the light. >> >> It's just not on....even today. >We can get much higher than 134 mph. Sorry I was a factor of ten out there. 0.000002c. That involves spinning a one metre circumference (1ft diam) wheel at about 300 rps) or 18000 rpm. So the time differences you want to resolve are around E-10. Maintaining a constant distance might be the biggest problem. >>>> I've heard it all before, old son, and I've got the answers. Some may >>>> be a little too hard for you to comprhend, though, even though they >>>> are simple once you create your own model of ballistic light. Not that >>>> you will bother, right? >>> >>>I have been helping Henri improve his program by asking him questions >>>and looking over his code. >> >> That is true and I am grateful. >> I am still finding minor errors and improving the whole program >> generally. > >I look forward to seeing the improved version. It's up there now. > >>>> Even >>>> Henri used a circular orbit for his first attempt, though I warned him >>>> not to. c+v is very simple to understand, but modelling it is another >>>> story, you have to use Kepler's law to do it right and reproduce >>>> the light curves we see in Nature. A circular orbit is simply an orbit >>>> with an eccentricity of zero and is the exception rather than the >>>> rule. If you want to learn, old son, you have to do your homework and >>>> you have think outside the box. >>> >>>If I didn't think 'outside the box', I would have left you and Henri >>>long ago. >> >> Bob, since you are a relative newcomer here, you never had the pleasure >> of witnessing how 'Androcles' alias 'Arthur Dent' got stuck into someone >> he really didn't like. >> I can assure you, he must consider you one of the more intelligent >> people here or he wouldn't be so kind. > >I try to treat everyone with respect. >I enjoy communicating with people that treat others with respect. So do I. These groups are a lot of fun as well as being contructive. HW. www.users.bigpond.com/hewn/index.htm Sometimes I feel like a complete failure. The most useful thing I have ever done is prove Einstein wrong.
From: bz on 30 Jun 2005 07:38 "N:dlzc D:aol T:com \(dlzc\)" <N: dlzc1 D:cox T:net(a)nospam.com> wrote in news:VdKwe.3720$Qo.1690(a)fed1read01: > Dear bz: > > "bz" <bz+sp(a)ch100-5.chem.lsu.edu> wrote in message > news:Xns9684DBB983C2WQAHBGMXSZHVspammote(a)130.39.198.139... > ... >>> But you simpy cannot perform an experiment of this >>> nature on Earth. Even if you did it on the tops of >>> two high mountains 30 kms apart, the biggest travel >>> time differences are going to be too small to detect. >> >> It could be done with a good scope. We don't need >> 30 km. 3 would do fine. >> >> 2,500 mph, 3700 ft/s is 3.72 ppm of c. >> We should be able to measure a change of 3 ppm >> in the speed of light, shouldn't we? > > "We" bounce light off of very high energy electrons to generate > TeV photons for further experimentation. There is no surprise > that total_path_length / (time_of_detection - time_of_emission) = > c. The resulting energy is boosted by as much as gamma^2, > depending on the reflection angle. How much room does this leave > for c' <> c? Not much, in my book, but I am trying to find an experiment that Henri will accept. Perhaps you can cite an experiment that will meet his strict requirements. Anything that has had negative results, is pretty much ruled out by one or another of his arguments. He doesn't like accelerator experiments because the nearby electric and magnetic fields might have an effect on the c' photons, etc. -- bz please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an infinite set. bz+sp(a)ch100-5.chem.lsu.edu remove ch100-5 to avoid spam trap
From: Jerry on 30 Jun 2005 08:34 bz wrote: > "N:dlzc D:aol T:com \(dlzc\)" <N: dlzc1 D:cox T:net(a)nospam.com> wrote in > news:VdKwe.3720$Qo.1690(a)fed1read01: > > "We" bounce light off of very high energy electrons to generate > > TeV photons for further experimentation. There is no surprise > > that total_path_length / (time_of_detection - time_of_emission) = > > c. The resulting energy is boosted by as much as gamma^2, > > depending on the reflection angle. How much room does this leave > > for c' <> c? > > > Not much, in my book, but I am trying to find an experiment that Henri will > accept. > > Perhaps you can cite an experiment that will meet his strict requirements. > > Anything that has had negative results, is pretty much ruled out by one or > another of his arguments. He doesn't like accelerator experiments because > the nearby electric and magnetic fields might have an effect on the c' > photons, etc. He's never given any coherent arguments why he doesn't like Brecher (1977). He just ignores it. >From the abstract: "Recent observations of regularly pulsating x-ray sources in binary star systems are analyzed in the framework of the 'emission' theory of light. Assuming that light emitted by a source moving at velocity v with respect to an observer has a speed c' = c + kv in the observer's rest frame, we find that the arrival time of pulses from the binary x-ray sources implies k < 2x10^-9. This appears to be the most direct and sensitive demonstration that the speed of light is independent of the velocity of the source." Brecher, by the way, carefully allows for "extinction" effects. Henri always tries to get it both ways re extinction. If an experiment or experimental observation is negative, Henri cries "Extinction! Extinction!" Then he turns around and says that BaT explains Cepheid light curves, which to me cries out, "Extinction is negligible! Extinction is negligible!" Jerry
From: bz on 30 Jun 2005 08:29
H@..(Henri Wilson) wrote in news:24e7c19k9nsrtdjf9kfs3o0v5nldqtt2l6(a)4ax.com: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 01:16:39 +0000 (UTC), bz > <bz+sp(a)ch100-5.chem.lsu.edu> wrote: > >>H@..(Henri Wilson) wrote in news:6la6c1hcq62088s3q50bs98nri6tbarq7c@ >>4ax.com: >> >>> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:19:52 +0000 (UTC), bz >>> <bz+sp(a)ch100-5.chem.lsu.edu> wrote: >>> >>>>H@..(Henri Wilson) wrote in >>>>news:ntr3c116fsqmuqunbm83fochjvniuh6r4o(a)4ax.com: >>>> >>>>> It might be worth looking at but I still think the effect would be >>>>> far to small to detect in normal telescopes. What you want, Bob, is >>>>> an extra long version. >>>> >>>>Or a phased array of telescopes. Aberration should show up quite >>>>nicely. >>> >>> Maybe. >>> How would you know if it was real or not? >> >>How do we know if anything is real? We cross check against data from >>other stars in the same region of the sky. We cross check against other >>cepheids. We cross check against visual binaries, spectroscopic >>binaries, etc., etc. >> >>If there are c'=c+v photons out there, we should be able to detect them. > > You make it sound so simple. When you look at things right. >>Active optics are going to revolutionize astronomy. >> >>Phased arrays of active optics will be awesome. > > Are 'active optics' your own invention? I wish. Google on 'active optics'. here is one: http://www.eso.org/projects/aot/introduction.html bz please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an infinite set. bz+nanae(a)ch100-5.chem.lsu.edu -- bz please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an infinite set. bz+sp(a)ch100-5.chem.lsu.edu remove ch100-5 to avoid spam trap |