On Apr 3, 4:26*am, oriel36 wrote:

I practice astronomy as an avocation...

.... as do most of us here, and it is great fun.

The problem, in your case, is that your astronomical foundation is
woefully weak, for you do not appear to understand the very basic
concepts of this hobby. You place way too much confidence in your
"intuitive intelligence" and your interpretation of pretty pictures,
and way too little confidence in the massive work done by others over
the last 400 years. Just because you can't understand what they are
trying to teach you doesn't mean they are wrong.

It is simply not the case that you are correct in your speculations
and that the rest of the community is wrong. That is plainly
delusional.

The only gridlock here is squarely between your ears.

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some
who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the
other.”
- Douglas H. Everett

\Paul the Nuisance