On 29 Mar 2007 17:24:58 -0700, "Leonard Kellogg" wrote:


Henri Wilson wrote:

The extinction distance is directly proportional to period.
The 0.0007 value is for a period of 0.0042 years.
It becomes 0.007 for 0.042 years, 0.07 for 0.42 years..etc.
...always independent of peripheral velocity.

How can you explain THAT?

As I said 19 and 20 March, the light speed unification
distance is inversely proportional to the rate of pulse
bunching. The more rapidly the pulses bunch, the shorter
the unification distance. What you have found is the
obvious fact that the rate of pulse bunching is inversely
proportional to the period. All else being equal, the
shorter the period, the more rapidly the pulses bunch.
So naturally, the shorter the period, the shorter the
unification distance.

That's an interesting idea....I'll think about it........but unification - or
classical extinction - should depend only on the properties of the space
through which the light travels...should it not?
Obviously however the speed of a pulse cannot be unified with that of another
that hasn't even been emitted.
I'm somewhat mystified by this.
I don't think unification takes place as rapidly as I originally believed. I no
longer need it to explain why my distances had to always be much shorter than
the Hipparcos ones.






Leonard


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