Why are the 'Fixed Stars' so FIXED?

"bz" wrote in message
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George Dishman wrote in
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On 3 Jul, 13:19, bz wrote:
HW@....(Henri Wilson) wrote in news:rmcj83puhpk8l09pclb7ubl18ieb5khjcm@
4ax.com:

Ah, I see your problem.

You aren't taking account of the sequential emission delays between
the 'pulses'. That is fundamental to the bunching calculations.

You are assuming they are all emitted at the same instant.

you do realize that, for the velocities involved in your typical
variable star, the delta v (change in velocity of the emission source)
between the 'front end' and the 'back end' of the photon, during the
time it takes to emit a photon, is essentially zero, don't you?

[this is true whether one considers the photon length to be the same as
the wave length or millions of wavelengths.]

You have to remember Henry is using a classical
concept for a photon, so it is the latter
"millions of wavelengths" definition you have
to use. The change of launch speed between the
ends is therefore just the time taken multiplied
by the average acceleration over those cycles.
That blows Henry's model out of the water since
the spectral shift has to match the 'photon
bunching' because the mechanism that bunches
phtotons also bunches the cycles within a photon
by the same factor. The correspondence is that
an orbital speed of 300km/s (fastest contact
binary) should give a luminosity variation of
just +/- 0.001 magnitudes.

Kind of 'lost in the noise', right?

Exactly. It's surprising that people like Sekerin
who pushed this years ago didn't see that problem.

Blows holes in his concrete boat.

Not concrete, it has enough holes to be chicken wire.

That's why Henry added another ad hoc bodge to
the theory of photons being incompresible, but
that doesn't work when you consider a simple
pulse-modulated monochromatic source.

Last time I looked inside a laser, there was absolutely no sign of 'HW
bunching'. Otherwise there would be terrible keying 'chirp' [frequency
shift] {which would KILL gigabit data transfer over fiber}.

The way he looks at it, you would need to accelerate
the whole laser to get bunching. An example might
be a natural maser in a stellar atmosphere of it was
part of a binary system.

Sadly
Henry doesn't know enough about RF or audio
to follow that argument and ended up going
off on tangents about white light, but the
evidence is still there.

HWdaemons only seem to live in the space between galaxies, so there is no
way the phenomina can be tested on earth or by sighting within our solar
system.

Since any refractive index sets the speed to c/n
relative to the material, it would be limited to
regions where the density is too low to get a
dispersion measure. That rules out anything in
our galaxy.

... where intellegent life
is absent, then the ballistic theory of light can freely reign.

I would agree with that, though not for technical
reasons.

George