Hugh,
You point out an interesting fact that I had sort of overlooked. The
currently fashionable, or at least for the last few years,
fashionable, theories, all have at their base information from the
Michelson-Morely and Planck's work. It would appear that they, and we,
are agreed that there are basic answers hidden there, However, the
others all interpret the results in one way, we use an almost opposite
version. \
They were trying to invent a theory while we were just following up a
string of logic to see where it would go.
It could be that there is a definite point in this that needs to be
somehow gotten across,,,the answers are probably in front of our
noses, if we are looking in the right direction, in the right way.
Maybe that "Theory of Now" is somewhere around what we are talking.
It seems to me that what has developed so far seems to explain more
things and make more sense than what the "real geniuses" have come up
with in the last 100 years or so.
The idea from Astronomy Mag.is interesting. We could use some good
astronomers in this group , or an astrophysicist or two.!!
I just sent in for a "Great Courses" copy of "The Joy of Mathematics"
which is a popularization of math. which takes one up through Calc.
I'm hoping that I can go thru it and get some of my old math. training
back in focus. I was quite good with Calculus for about 6-7 years
after I took the course, but that course was about 1952-53. l..don't
know if any of that will help with fitting the work to the cosmos, but
it can'[t hurt....