Message from @jeremy
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He flipped out and said go away
Hey haven’t lol
He couldn't reconcile being wrong
"scientists" have only calculated the distance by using the hubble law (for far distant stars) and *maybe* some triangulation (I don't really know) for nearer stars
@SunRazor stellar paralax
@RogueReflector be careful, don't start name calling
yea stellar paralax
either way, it's calculating using models
I don't think we can really measure the distance to stars
That's based on measurements
U need to know the size of something or the distance to it to find out the one measurem t u don’t have
the measurements that are made, I might not doubt their accuracy... but it's the models used that I question
@jeremy ya, that's not true
You can do it with two angles and a distance
stellar paralax? fine, I can accept that. But the hubble law is founded on assumptions
The red shift thing?
yep
Ya I gotta read about that
I think it's corraborated in another way
Like the size of the objects has certain things going on
If I cut a circle out of cardboard go@in a field and u don’t know how far away I am I can tell the size of the circle ?
Yes,
U can tell ?
Wanna know how?
I doubt u could
But go ahead
I can tell you
Go tell me
Please
I can stand in one spot and zero out my pointer , targeting the object
Ok
Then walk 45 ft to the right, and read my pointers new angle
Ur pointer ?
Yes a device that tells me the angle I'm pointing
I have a right triangle then
And angle and a side of the triangle, boom I can calc the distance
Then I can measure the angular size of the object
Then calc its actual size
This device
@RogueReflector as I mentioned before, there are two sources of redshift: The most obvious source of redshift is doppler (including time dilation due to special relativity); the less obvious source of redshift is gravitational, which depends on gravitational potential (confirmed through the Harvard Tower Experiment, and similarly repeated experiments).
Is a sextant ?