Why are the 'Fixed Stars' so FIXED?

On 25 Mar 2007 11:48:44 -0700, "Leonard Kellogg" wrote:


George Dishman wrote:

He obviously wants to avoid PSR1613+16 altogether.

Not at all, I expect you to model J1909-3744, PSR1613+16
and J0737-3039A/B but I've learned from experience that
you waste a lot of time looking at multiple examples if
you haven't got the software right for the first one.

Henri,

FYI, when George says 'you waste a lot of time looking at
multiple examples if you haven't got the software right'
he is referring to people in general, not just you.
I have made the same mistake more than once, even after
learning the lesson. It is important and necessary to run
several different examples to help determine whether the
software is working correctly, but until you know that it
is working correctly, it is pointless to use it for data
analysis.

It is working perfectly well. It produces the same curve using four different
methods. Androcles has a similar program that produces the same curves.

George has a strange idea that I am not incorporating the classical VDoppler
effect that occurs immediately, as distinct from the ADoppler that build up
over distance and far outweighs the former.
George doesn't understand that, in the BaTh, VDoppler does not occur at the
source. Its effect is operative at the observer end and it is negligible at all
practical star distances. George doesn't understand that my method precisely
follows the movement of pulses across space and includes both factors.
George believes my theory requires a high degree of extinction in order that my
distance settings will match the observed ones. .....That WAS the case...but in
light of the fact that I now know the published velocity curves of ALL pulsars
and variable objects are likely to be very very exaggerated, the need for
extreme light speed unification is negated.

The program now includes what George wanted to see and reveals nothing new.

Another example of George referring to people in general
when he says 'you' is:

If your theory doesn't match, you discard the theory, not
the observations.

That clearly does not describe you.

.....but my theory DOES match...

The only thing Einstein's SR matches is LET.

Leonard


"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know
him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
--Jonathan Swift.