Ranging and Pioneer

Thus spake "John (Liberty) Bell"


But you have already claimed, in prior discussions, that observers
placed on opposite sides of Pioneer 10 or 11 would both see an illusory
acceleration (now illusory momentum) directed towards them.

acceleration is measured as a drift in momentum. Essentially this is not
much different from the standard idea in an expanding universe that
every point is moving away from every other, and appears in the model as
a correction to that idea.

You are now
simultaneously claiming that extragalactic observers on opposite sides
of any star within the galaxy will, in contrast, see illusory momenta
in the same physical direction (ie towards one and away from the
other).

These two momentum illusion claims also appear mutually incompatible.

This is a different instance, where what is measured is an effect only
apparent due to the distortion of space-time due to galactic mass.



Regards

--
Charles Francis
substitute charles for NotI to email