Why are the 'Fixed Stars' so FIXED?

On 16 Feb 2007 22:14:51 -0800, "Leonard Kellogg" wrote:


Henri Wilson wrote:

The method I use is to reduce the difference between actual
speed and c by a fixed factor per unit distance.

If the initial speed relative to the barycentre of the binary
is say, 1.00015c, then I multiply the 0.00015 by the extinction
rate each light day of travel.

speed relatively to what ? Ether ?

I plainly stated the reference for speed....the binary barycentre..

How does the light know that it should adjust its speed
relative to the barycentre rather than something else?

In actual fact light only 'knows' of one object, its own source. Theoretically
the source could be the only object in the universe.
The best reference for a change in speed is the source itself.

Since I am discussing the unification of light speed from the star over a
complete orbit, I am suggesting that its barycentre is the most practical
reference to use. It is not the only reference one could use.

How does the light determine its speed relative to the
barycentre of the system it has left?

It leaves at between c+v and c-v in the observer direction, wrt the orbit
centre. I'm saying, that in time, it unifies to something like c wrt that
centre. Don't ask me how of why... but this seems to happen in varying amounts
according to the BaTh.


Would light leaving the Moon toward a distant viewer unify
its speed to c relative to the Earth-Moon barycentre or to
the Moon-Sun barycentre?

For a three body system, The radial velocity would be something like
c+Acos(xt)+Bcos(yt).

The max amd min are c+A+B and c-A-B.

So I presume there would be two separate unification processes occuring
simultaneously at different rates. The A would go towards zero over relatively
short distances followed by the B over larger distances.

I say this because unification rate appears to be dependent on orbit period.
Don't ask me why. There could be an entirely different explanation as to why
the hipparcos distances are generally longer than those I need to match
brightness curves.

Leonard