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Henri Wilson  
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 More options Apr 30 2007, 8:20 pm
Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity, sci.astro
From: HW@....(Henri Wilson)
Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 00:20:19 GMT
Local: Mon, Apr 30 2007 8:20 pm
Subject: Re: Why are the 'Fixed Stars' so FIXED?
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:16:22 +0100, "George Dishman" <geo...@briar.demon.co.uk>
wrote:

>"Henri Wilson" <HW@....> wrote in message
>news:paa233tfpm0cjqmq1d3j5opoigo7d9f54l@4ax.com...
>>>Or to state it more truthfully, you prefer to leave it out of your
>>>program for the usual reason, correcting it would prove you wrong.

>> No George, I just do it mentally in seconds.

>Then why have you never realised it was orders of magnitude
>larger than matching the observations?

I have. That's why I discovered the 'rubber photon theory'....which is
perfectly feasible and explains everything.
........and since you have now dropped the classical wave theory you should be
able to agree with me.

>>>The correspondence is a consequence of the "c+v" equation,
>>>either my statement is true or false but it is a purely algebraic
>>>question. If it is true then it is true always.

>> You're talking nonsense again George.

>Nope, simple maths you said you could do "mentally in seconds".

>> The Bath can predict and produce luminosity variations up to about mag 3.0
>> (before peaks start to appear), using source velocities as low as you
>> like.

>Not source velocity Henry, observed velocity. They are
>quite different.

George, you are still insisting that the wavelength changes in the observed
light will be of the same proportion as the brightness variation...a tenfold
increase in brightness would also mean a doppler shift corresponding with 10c
!!!!!...if the VDoppler equation was used.

I have now explained why that is not true.

Fractional Photon Length Change = (Bunching Factor)/K
...where K can be large.

This means the observed doppler shifts are still ADoppler with regard to phase
but are much much smaller in magnitude.  
Now there is now confusion about cepheid velocity/brightness phase
relationships.

>>>Provide the equations that come from it to replace "c+v" and I will
>>>consider them. Until then there is nothing for me to look at.

>> It doesn't replace c+v.

>Below you say "Photon shrinkage = (bunching factor)/K"

>By "shrinkage" I assume you mean the wavelength of an
>individual photon is shrinking. The "bunching factor"
>presumably refers to groups of photons but the factor
>should be dependent on the source v and a so you need
>to do a little algebra to get the equation for a single
>photon. After that you can just do a Fourier transform
>of a pulsed waveform to derive the replacement for c+v.

You can ignore v for stars.. It is only dependent on source a.

For pulsars, we have only a 'wave' situation, not an 'individual photon' one.

>>>> VDoppler is not at all important, except maybe for pulsar pulses.

>>>Try to read more carefully Henry, "larger than".

>> That's perfectly OK George.
>> ADoppler shifts are generally larger than VDoppler ones.

>Don't keeep repeating that error Henry, in the only
>examples you have calculated (contact binery EF Dra
>and the pulsars) ADoppler two orders less than
>VDoppler and there's no reason to think that isn't
>universal. In fact there's no reason to doubt that
>ADoppler doesn't exist.

George, assume the observed shifts in cepheids etc., are all ADoppler. Yet the
OBSERVED fractional wavelength shifts are much smaller than the max/min
brightness ratio.

When converted to orbit speeds, via VDoppler math, the velocities are those we
normally see in published cuves.

The truth is, the observed wavelength shifts are all ADoppler derived and are
equal to (bunching factor)/K. We know the bunching factor...that is the
brightness variation...but we don't know K. Whatever it is, there is no doubt
that published velocity curves are not correct...maybe way out.

All those high (radial) velocities calculated for contact binaries could in
fact be much lower. ..To conform with practical orbit radii, some of the orbits
can have high pitch angles.

>> That's why they are
>> always nearly in phase with the brightness curves and not with the source
>> velocity curves.

>Wrong way round Henry, the observations are always in
>phase with the VDoppler curve and 90 degrees out from
>the ADoppler in those we have looked at.

Not so George. The ADoppler shifts are always (or nearly) in phase with the
brightness curves.
You are confusing this factor with my original red curve, which assumed photons
were incompressible.

>> I have. You didn't take any notice.
>> Photon shrinkage = (bunching factor)/K

>I was asking about _quantum_ equations, not the classical
>wave theory you are offerring so far.

This is definitel not classical wave theory. This is a completely new Wilsonian
breakthrough!

>>>> A remote atom in space emits a single light quanta. What name would you
>>>> give to
>>>> it George?

>>>You can only treat it as a burst of waves.

>> ...waves, waves?????....what's 'waving' George?

>Since you are still talking classically it would be
>the electric and magnetic fields.

I am not talking classically. Bunching is purely ballistic.

>> Photon shrinkage = (bunching factor)/K

>>> v' = c + v                     [1]

>>> dv'/ds = (c/n-v')/R         [2]

>>>What do you propose to replace them with?

>> they don't have to be replaced.
>> Just add: Photon shrinkage = (bunching factor)/K

>OK, I'll leave you to calculate the new equation replacing
>my [1] from that. The instructions are above.

I think you are talking about something else here.
You are asking how a photon changes when it encounters different conditions
during flight, in which case bunching occurs.
The factor K would imply that an RF signal, for instance, would be affected
more by ADoppler than the individual photons which make it up.
That could be true. How would we know? Nobody looks at individual photons when
they detect RF.
It might be possible to do something along these lines with Pulsar pulses,
which are wide enough to provide a decent spectrum.  

>>>I do, but that's irrelevant. The point is that acceleration is 90 degrees
>>>out of phase with velocity (for a circular orbit) and the observeration
>>>is of VDoppler only.

>> It appears to be mainly VDoppler for pulsars and maybe contact binaries
>> (although I don't have enough data to verify that).

>Yes you do, you have the curves for EF Dra and probably
>several other from the same papers. Let me know if you
>find one that isn't pure VDoppler.

You saw MY constructed curve for EF Dra. ..but I don't know the actual shape
behind the eclipsed part.

>> It does NOT appear to be VDoppler for Cepheids or other variable stars. It
>> is
>> all ADoppler.

>You haven't shown a single Cepheid where the orbital phase
>can be determined to distinguish which it is, and of course
>you never will because they are intrinsic variables.

It so happens that the VDoppler velocity curve shape and the ADoppler one are
virtually the same for certain values of eccentricity and yaw angle. That's
just a strange mathematical fact....and I say one that has confused astronomers
for a long time.

>>>> Incidentally, the harmonic could be result from egg shaped stars in
>>>> tidal lock.

>>>Show the maths Henry.

>> Photon shrinkage = (bunching factor)/K

>No Henry, pay attention. Show your mathematical proof that
>an egg shaped tidally locked star produces the same harmonic
>content.

You're changing the subject.
The answer should be pretty obvious anyway.

>>>> Concentrate on the rubber photon theory George.

>>>Tell me what is is then, where are you new equations.

>> Photon shrinkage = (bunching factor)/K

>Carry on then, c+v is replaced by .... (show your working).

All values of c+v, c+v1, c+v2.....c+vn will alter by about the same 'bunching
factor' as they negotiate much the same 'space swirl'.

>>>> >Nope, that doesn't do it. What you need to do is choose a
>>>> >particular star or Cepeheid or binary or pulsar or whatever
>>>> >you like and show that the phase is 90 degrees out from the
>>>> >VDoppler only curve.

>>>> Explained by the rubber photon theory George.

>>>Sorry, you still haven't shown a single case that can't be explained
>>>by VDoppler alone.

>> George, typical star magnitude changes cannot be even approached with
>> VDoppler.
>> Only ADoppler can generate them.

>Intrinsic variability explains them. The only way to prove it
>is ADoppler is by showing the curve is by the orbital phase
>for which you need something like an eclipse or Shapiro delay.

George, as I explained to Bob, our own sun would appear variable to an observer
50000 LYs away simply due to its small, long period orbit around the
sun/Jupiter barycentre.

>>>> >You have not put forward any theory whatsoever. In fact it
>>>> >was _I_ who put forward the BaTh theory for you! I have posted
>>>> >the two equations a number of times so I won't repeat them
>>>> >but you have offered no alternative to them so don't claim
>>>> >you have.

>>>Still waiting.

>> Photon shrinkage = (bunching factor)/K

>> As the photons aggregate, each individual photon shrinks a little due to
>> 'photon pressure'.
>> Simple, concise..AND IT WORKS!!!!!

>Sorry, it doesn't. Do a Fourier analysis. The same factor
>must apply to the bunching.

Now you're back to classical wave theory.

>You could hand-wave it to say
>that the pressure resists the bunching as well as reducing
>the compression. A hand-waving guess would then be that c+v
>will become (c+v)/K (my eqn [1])but you need to do the maths
>properly to find out what happens to [2].

I explained, above.

>> But what is also obserevd are magnitude changes that are 1000 times bigger
>> than
>> anything VDoppler can produce.
>> ..........have you lost the plot again George?

>No Henry, those are intrinsic, "huff-puff" as you call it.
>You have no evidence for a phase difference between the
>VDoppler and the observed curve. You will struggle to do
>that because in reality there is no second body (or if the
>Cepheid is part of a binary, it is not syncronous).

For my purposes, the cepheid doesn't need a second body. Its huffing is
analogous to orbiting eccentrically as far as radial velocity is concerned.
The BaTh DOES however provide a perfectly sound and accurate expanation for the
brightness variation, something no other theory can do.

>> George, there are PHOTONS...and there are GROUPS OF PHOTONS.
>> The two are not the same.

>No, but the aggregate wavelength of a groups of photons
>has to be the same as that of an individual photon or
>a photomultiplier would show the peak photon arrival
>rate at a location offset from the location of maximum
>light intensity. That isn't possible of course.

George, if you're going to introduce new experiments like this you will have to
provide a few details.
What is the PM measuring?..an oscillating light beam?

>> You can have one XRay photon or one high energy gamma ray photon...or you
>> can
>> thousands grouped together to make a super powerful xray or gamma....but
>> grouping them doesn't change the wavelength much.

>No, but the energy in the beam is deposited at the place
>where most of the photons land.

That's OK.
Perfectly in accord with hte P.E. effect.

>> George, we know that classical wave theory breaks down at the quantum
>> level.
>> So stop trying to use it there.

>OK, show me a set of probability equations that apply to
>individual particles saying where they will land and forget
>about your classical model.

>> That theory might works for GROUPS of photons...but not for individual
>> ones.

>If you ever produce a quantum version, you write down the
>equations for an individual photon and then derive the
>consequences for large numbers.

I haven't gotten that far yet George.

>> INDIVIDUAL Photon shrinkage = (bunching factor)/K

>OK, so first what is the "bunching factor" for a single
>photon and then show how you derive the speed with which
>energy is transported by a flux of many photons. Don't
>just wave you hands and try to pull "c+v" out of thin air
>Henry, show the derivation.

There is no conflict with energy conservation.

>> Hey that's wrong.
>> All cepheid curves have ADoppler phasing....when the observed spectra are
>> analysed with VDoppler methods, that is.

>Sorry Henry, all Cepheids have intrinsic variability and
>you have no phase reference - no eclipses and no Shapiro
>delay.

..and nobody has a hydrodynamic theory that even comes close to explaining
INTRINSIC Cepheid brightness variations.

>>>> There is no speed term in the grating equations.

>>>You haven't written the ballistic theory equations yet Henry, speed
>>>will be in them.

>> I'm talking about classical theory not BaTh..

>So wa I. You haven't applied your current classical BaTh to
>a grating so there are NO "grating equations" to have a speed
>term or not.

There is 'frequency of wavecrest arrival'.

>>>There is only one set of equations Henry, and a photon is just a short
>>>length
>>>of a few thousand cycles cut from a macroscopic wave in ballistic theory
>>>so
>>>the factors can only be identical.

>> No.

>Yes, in your current theory. It is purely wave based.

Hardly...
The bunching part is...but the photon shrinkage is more a mechanical effect.

>>>I don't need to know the velocity, only the phase matters and it matches
>>>VDoppler not ADoppler. If the ADoppler contributed a tenth of the VDoppler
>>>then the phase would shift by about 6 degrees relative to the time of the
>>>eclipse and that is independent of the velocity.

>> I gather you are refering to short period eclipsing binaries...

>You seem to have lost the context, this refers to EF Dra
>specifically.

>> where we know
>> VDoppler might be significant or even dominant. But we don't have many
>> brightness curves to work with.
>> Try some longer period ones George.
>> Can we see a velocity curve for Algol?

>If you think you have evidence for a phase difference
>from the VDoppler expectation, go ahead and present it.

I haven't seen a velocity curve for Algol.

>>>> >You miss the point, if photons were incompressible there would

>>>It is always dominant in observations.

>> Negligible.

>No dominant, ADoppler < VDoppler * 1% in all cases so far.

VDoppler can't match brightness curves...not even to 0.01%. VDoppler is
negligible.

>> Ps=Bf/K

>Just meaningless letters Henry, what is Bf in terms of
>observables (such as a and v of the source) for a single
>photon?

>> ...observed spectral shift is now correct in phase and magnitude.

>Correct for VDoppler, yes.

It is similar to VDoppler ..but the diffeence now, George,  is that I can
produce a whole range of brightness curves that match obseerved ones and I can
also match observed spectra with those curves.

>>>Nice that you can tell what the result is before having an equation
>>>to analyse. Clairvoyant are you?

>> I sense a sqrt somewhere.

>Tough, show your working.

when I get time.

>> The real point is exactly what I am emphasizing.
>> If acceleration is NOT CONSTANT then two unequal lengths will contract by
>> different proportions.

>Garbage, a length doesn't contract. Objects might.

George, it was you who first alerted me to this.
You exlained to me that the length between pulsar pulses should continue to
contract during flight according to the BaTh. Have you forgotten?

I have merely pointed out to you that the proportional change in length will
depend on the (~average) acceleration at the time of emission. Surely that's
not hard to grasp.
Therefore a short length (of time) around an orbit should contract by a
different proportion to a long length.

>> The radial acceleration is NOT constant around an orbit.

>So what, I told you days ago the difference in _speed_ is
>the integral of the _acceleration_ between the emissions
>and you finally grasped that. The comprssion depends _only_
>on the difference in speeds, not the shape of the
>acceleration curve.

We are really talking about bunching in time, not space.
Consider an orbit with zero phase nearest observer.

A pulse is emitted at 0 and another at 1 degree. Acceleration is maximum as is
the velocity difference. Bunching here will be greater than for pulses emitted
at 90 and 91.
BUT the proportional bunching between 0 and 0.1 will be vastly different from
that between, say, 0 and 1 because the average acceleraltion is different.

Similarly a photon emitted between say 0 and 0.0000000001, will have a
different ""proportional"" contraction from a pulse width originating from 0
and 0.01.

get it now?

>>>No Henry, I just don't know what you think "change in length of a
>>>short radial length" has to do with radial acceleration. You seem
>>>to have gone off onto another subject entirely.

>> I'm talking about your classical wave approach.
>> BUNCHING...how the 'ends' move in relation to each other.

>Yes, in YOUR theory, the ends are launched at different speeds.

>Ot perhaps you are thinking that the middle of the photon
>wouldn't move at exactly the mean of the speed of the ends?
>Yes, that's another self-contradiction in Bath, the
>"wavelength" of a photon varies along its length. Nuts, eh.

I am saying George, that a photon is a discrete entity, with length and cross
section as well an intrinsic structure and properties that give it a particle
like quality.

I am saying that movement between 'photons ends' is either dampened very
quickly or ceases altogether after it leaves an accelerating source.
The important point is that its length change is proportional to the difference
in emission speeds of its ends...that is an ADoppler change.

>> You showed weeks ago why you thought a photon would shrink in the same
>> proportion to the group.
>> I'm showing you that if da/dt <>0 then this does not hold.

>The _mean_ wavelength of the photon would be the same as the
>group but you are right, an individual photon no longer has
>a specific wavelength any more. Just another ludicruous
>prediction of BaTh.

It still has an intrinsic oscillation...but this has been affected by its
permanent length change..

>However, if you want to get to that level of detail, calculate
>the acceleration distribution of the indiviual atoms in the
>photosphere of a star and see what spread you should get in the
>ADoppler factor.  ;-)

My program already includes random distribution of molecular velocities for
diffrent temperatures. It's prety rough but provides an indication of what to
expect.

>> The proportional change will be the same only if the acceleration is
>> constant.
>> You even provided the math for this once.

>If you mean f'/f = c(c+v)/(c^2-da), yes that's right for
>the assumption that a photon is a particle emitted at an
>instant when the acceleration is a and the velocity is v.
>That's the formula that would control the plots on my Java
>applet.

That equation applies to pulses but not to individual photons.
You need the factor K.

>> No. I find it quite obvious....but you're being deliberately stubborn

>Your waffle about shrinking lengths was incomprehensible, why
>not just say the ADoppler factor would vary along the length of
>the photon if that's what you mean?

It isn't what I mean at all.

I mean the bloody thing DOES shrink but by a lot less than the distance between
photons.

>>>> I was thinkinig of transmission gratings actually.

>>>Good point, what does ballistic theory say for the speed then?

>> In remote space, c+v naturallly.

>No, no, what does BaTh say for the change of speed of the
>light as it passes _through_ the grating?

Well this is another factor. I presume it becomes c/n.
I must p[oint out that I have discused grating before and I was the one who
wanted reflection gratings not transmission gratings, for this very reason.

>You should also think about how BaTh would deal with a
>"quarter-wave" plate, dichroic mirrors, and so on.

One day George...but I don't see how my theory would violate any of these.

>> At ground level on Earth, it is c/n wrt the
>> surface....but the wavelengths will have adjusted accordingly to still
>> produce
>> the right doppler shifts.
>> However, if I move the grating away from the star at v.....????  What
>> should
>> happen George?

>They're your equations Henry, you tell me.

Don't you know the equation for diffraction angle for a reflection grating
George? It's pretty simple.

>>>> but no matter, in either case the light's wavelength is not affectd by
>>>> the
>>>> movement of the grating.

>>>That may or may not be true.

>> How could remote light be affected by the movement of the grating?

>I explained before, if you light arrives at c and the
>grating moves at v then BaTh would say the incident
>speed is c-v but the reflected light moves at c which
>would change the wavelength.

No, the light initially arrives at c+v and certain diffraction angles are
recorded, indicative of doppler shift. Then the grating is moved at v so the
light now arrives at c. I'm asking why the angles should change when the
equation does not contain a light speed term.

>>>What is true is that the frequency at
>>>in the grating frame is not affected by reflection but if the
>>>reflected
>>>speed changes then the process will alter the wavelength.

>> We in BaTh like to hear this kind of talk.

>That's because I am describing the BaTh predictions, have
>you lost the plot again? The posts are getting rather long
>and the context is sometimes separated.

I think I'll start a new thread on gratings.

>> We have always said grating wortk on
>> FREQUENCY not wavelength.

>To naive Henry, the correct statement is that the combination
>of a grating and screene works on the relative phase of the
>individual paths at the screen.

If perpendicular light is directed towards a grating the diffraction angles for
reinforcement of particular wavelengths are just a lambda, cos theta thing.
Note curved gratings are preferable to focus each colour.

>> Thank you George. You are coming around...

>I think that aspect is the same in all the theories.

>>>> >Then it is wrong, the variation is fixed by the green curve
>>>> >amplitude since both derive from TDoppler.

>>>> All has now been explained by the rubber photon theory..

>>>ROFL, Henry you are hilarious at times. Where are the equations ? :-)

>> Throughout history, all major breakthroughs were  initially ridiculed.

>So were all the screw-ups.

Including SR....and it still is..

>> Ps=Bf/K

>> Mind you, K might not be a constant but a function of other
>> factors...which
>> might answer bz's query about photon shrinkage in strong laser beams.

>Nope, K=1 from the first order measured VDoppler.

This 'K' is not something we know much about George.

>>>> ....thanks for your assistance George.

>>>A true delight Henry.

>> Throughout history, all major breakthroughs were  initially ridiculed.

>So were the cranks, the difference is cranks propose
>"breakthroughs" that have already been falsified before
>being proposed. Ritz wasn't a crank IMHO as the de Sitter
>argument, while valid in principle, really needed better
>telescopes than were available at the time but since then
>his theory has falsified by Sagnac, Ives and Stilwell and
>the Shapiro delay to mention only those we have already
>covered.

De Sitter was te crank.
The BaTh has never been proved wrong.
Every experiment I know of supports the BaTh. It is obviously correct.

>>>Not "linked with" Henry, it is nothing but classical! You never
>>>seen QM, have you.

>> The particle/wave duality is finally explained.

>ROFL, go ahead, show how you derive the photo-electric
>equation from "Ps=Bf/K". I don't think you appreciate
>what "particle/wave duality" really means Henry.

I have raised that question before. Does the PE effect apply exactly to doppler
shifted light?

>George

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