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Title: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Phlat Damon on July 24, 2017, 11:45:05 AM
Hey globers! If the earth is so undeniably spherical, then someone explain to me how there is going to be a perfect solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Crutchwater on July 24, 2017, 12:03:16 PM
Round planet orbits sun, round moon orbits  planet, sometimes moon gets between sun and planet.

Eclipse.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Phlat Damon on July 24, 2017, 12:28:09 PM
Round planet orbits sun, round moon orbits  planet, sometimes moon gets between sun and planet.

Eclipse.

Not likely. Ever heard of the Mayans? See video



Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Crutchwater on July 24, 2017, 12:36:18 PM
Please!

That video is pure, absolute horse shit!
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Phlat Damon on July 24, 2017, 12:39:29 PM
Please!

That video is pure, absolute horse shit!

So your admitting you have no way of arguing the facts? You just call it horse shit... Did you even watch the whole thing?
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Crutchwater on July 24, 2017, 12:43:03 PM
August 21st

Go outside.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Sentinel on July 24, 2017, 12:51:08 PM
Hey globers! If the earth is so undeniably spherical, then someone explain to me how there is going to be a perfect solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017.

Since both exact time and position of landfall/trajectory of that eclipse was predicted by using SHM calculations I really do wonder what point you're trying to make here. If any.  ???
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: markjo on July 24, 2017, 01:28:25 PM
Round planet orbits sun, round moon orbits  planet, sometimes moon gets between sun and planet.

Eclipse.

Not likely. Ever heard of the Mayans? See video


Why is he talking about lunar eclipses but showing footage of a plane chasing a solar eclipse? ???
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Crutchwater on July 24, 2017, 01:31:14 PM
Hey globers! If the earth is so undeniably spherical, then someone explain to me how there is going to be a perfect solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017.

Since both exact time and position of landfall/trajectory of that eclipse was predicted by using SHM calculations I really do wonder what point you're trying to make here. If any.  ???


All that information is fake, along with EVERYTHING that NASA and every other space agency has achieved...


But that YouTube video is DA TRUTH!!!

When will you get WOKE'D??
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: JRoweSkeptic on July 24, 2017, 02:55:18 PM
Since both exact time and position of landfall/trajectory of that eclipse was predicted by using SHM calculations
Source?
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: JackBlack on July 24, 2017, 02:59:05 PM
Hey globers! If the earth is so undeniably spherical, then someone explain to me how there is going to be a perfect solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017.
Seriously? What do you think is so difficult about it.
The moon and sun, due to their respective distances and sizes are approximately the same angular size.
The moon is more variable due to its elliptical orbit.

If the moon passes in front of the sun, it will block the light of the sun.

What is wrong with this explanation?

Rather than just providing a video and basically just telling us to watch it, how about you explain it?
What argument is it trying to make?

Or here is a better idea:
Perhaps you can explain how eclipses work on your flat Earth?
Including both total and annular eclipses.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: InFlatEarth on July 24, 2017, 11:46:33 PM
Please!

That video is pure, absolute horse shit!

Like the moon does not accelerate?

Quote
The time occupied by the moon in returning to the same star is called the time of her sidereal revolution. At the beginning of this century it amounted to 27.32 mean solar days. Its value is not the same in every century. From the time of the most ancient observations until the present day, we find that the sidereal revolution has been gradually becoming shorter and shorter. Will this acceleration always continue? This is a question which observation is incapable of deciding.

Popular Astronomy by Francois Arago 1858 - Page 235

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bNAUAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA257&dq=Popular+astronomy+volume+2&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUsPij6e7TAhWELcAKHQfdDo4Q6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=Popular%20astronomy%20volume%202&f=false (https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bNAUAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA257&dq=Popular+astronomy+volume+2&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUsPij6e7TAhWELcAKHQfdDo4Q6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=Popular%20astronomy%20volume%202&f=false)
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: JackBlack on July 25, 2017, 04:54:36 AM
Please!

That video is pure, absolute horse shit!

Like the moon does not accelerate?

Quote
The time occupied by the moon in returning to the same star is called the time of her sidereal revolution. At the beginning of this century it amounted to 27.32 mean solar days. Its value is not the same in every century. From the time of the most ancient observations until the present day, we find that the sidereal revolution has been gradually becoming shorter and shorter. Will this acceleration always continue? This is a question which observation is incapable of deciding.

Popular Astronomy by Francois Arago 1858 - Page 235

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bNAUAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA257&dq=Popular+astronomy+volume+2&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUsPij6e7TAhWELcAKHQfdDo4Q6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=Popular%20astronomy%20volume%202&f=false (https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bNAUAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA257&dq=Popular+astronomy+volume+2&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUsPij6e7TAhWELcAKHQfdDo4Q6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=Popular%20astronomy%20volume%202&f=false)
How about you stop spamming the same crap all over the place and focus on the discussion at hand?
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Mikey T. on July 25, 2017, 05:03:19 AM
No no, you have to give him a bit.  He is in the pre-temper tantrum phase.  He will shit all over other threads, but when too many people call him out he will explode.  If you sort of ignore it he may be able to avoid the explosion. 
It's the natural adolescence cycle of a young troll in puberty, there can be many of these phases.  We should use this time to study it.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: InFlatEarth on July 25, 2017, 07:06:08 AM
OK, I will stop writing on this thread as of now!
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Phlat Damon on July 25, 2017, 07:42:50 AM
Hey globers! If the earth is so undeniably spherical, then someone explain to me how there is going to be a perfect solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017.
Seriously? What do you think is so difficult about it.
The moon and sun, due to their respective distances and sizes are approximately the same angular size.
The moon is more variable due to its elliptical orbit.

If the moon passes in front of the sun, it will block the light of the sun.

What is wrong with this explanation?


I don't want to sound arogant here, but your explanation doesn't make any sense. This does:

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/73/77/55/737755f8ef50768472adb34d4d5c4ce3.jpg)

Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Sentinel on July 25, 2017, 09:35:34 AM
Since both exact time and position of landfall/trajectory of that eclipse was predicted by using SHM calculations
Source?

https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2017Aug21Tgoogle.html

Just ignore the header including NASA if you could...  ;D
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Sentinel on July 25, 2017, 09:42:13 AM
Hey globers! If the earth is so undeniably spherical, then someone explain to me how there is going to be a perfect solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017.
Seriously? What do you think is so difficult about it.
The moon and sun, due to their respective distances and sizes are approximately the same angular size.
The moon is more variable due to its elliptical orbit.

If the moon passes in front of the sun, it will block the light of the sun.

What is wrong with this explanation?


I don't want to sound arogant here, but your explanation doesn't make any sense. This does:

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/73/77/55/737755f8ef50768472adb34d4d5c4ce3.jpg)

What in the name of the effing flying spaghetti monster is this freaking sorcery?  ???
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Buzga on July 25, 2017, 11:53:25 AM

...

I don't want to sound arogant here, but your explanation doesn't make any sense. This does:

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/73/77/55/737755f8ef50768472adb34d4d5c4ce3.jpg)

This does ? This makes any sense?

In your picture the circumference of tropic of capricorn is two times bigger than circumference of tropic of cancer.
In reality it is not like that. People measured it.
Tropic of cancer and tropic of capricorn are the same, and both smaller than equator.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: simba on July 25, 2017, 12:00:24 PM
Hey globers! If the earth is so undeniably spherical, then someone explain to me how there is going to be a perfect solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017.
Seriously? What do you think is so difficult about it.
The moon and sun, due to their respective distances and sizes are approximately the same angular size.
The moon is more variable due to its elliptical orbit.

If the moon passes in front of the sun, it will block the light of the sun.

What is wrong with this explanation?


I don't want to sound arogant here, but your explanation doesn't make any sense. This does:

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/73/77/55/737755f8ef50768472adb34d4d5c4ce3.jpg)

So this image makes more sense? This image that isn't about eclipses...makes more sense tan the actual explanaition for an eclipse...
k then.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: JackBlack on July 25, 2017, 03:16:57 PM
OK, I will stop writing on this thread as of now!
You don't need to announce your buthurt departure.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: JackBlack on July 25, 2017, 03:22:46 PM
I don't want to sound arogant here, but your explanation doesn't make any sense. This does:
So you can't point out anything wrong with our explanation?

2 objects in space, where their distance and size makes their apparent angular size roughly the same means that when the moon (opaque) passes in front of the sun (a light source) the moon will block the light of the sun, resulting in an eclipse.
Due to the proximity of the moon and it being physically smaller than the sun, the eclipse will be partial.

Again, what is wrong with that explanation?
The moon, being an opaque object, cases a shadow.

Get a light (preferably large) and a small ball (smaller than the light) and see what it does.

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/73/77/55/737755f8ef50768472adb34d4d5c4ce3.jpg)
No, this doesn't make any sense at all.
You have the sun visible directly overhead at 3 different locations at once.
It is only directly overhead the equator at the equinox (both)
It is only directly overhead the tropic at the solstice, and that is one tropic per solstice.

You have the atmosphere simply being  a plane in the sky, no where near Earth.

So it doesn't even make sense in explaining Earth in general.

But more importantly, that doesn't have anything to do with eclipses.

Are you just trolling?
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Cartog on July 25, 2017, 04:17:07 PM
I have seen that very large picture of the Flat Earth map with the concave lens, etc., four times -- using up a lot of bandwidth -- without a coherent explanation of how this accounts for all the phenomena of a solar eclipse. 

Simple fact, the date and timing - and path of totality - of this solar eclipse - and of past and future solar eclipses - have all been calculated (accurately!) by adherents of Round Earth astronomy.  I have not encountered a Flat Earther who could do it.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Mikey T. on July 25, 2017, 08:19:27 PM
This is not really a concave lens you know.  Even if it was, the light rays you have drawn would not be refracted in that way.

Here, this may help, just a youtube of how lenses work.  Who knows, it may help you come up with the next big Flat Earth lie. 
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Zammo on July 25, 2017, 08:38:51 PM
Hey globers! If the earth is so undeniably spherical, then someone explain to me how there is going to be a perfect solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017.
Seriously? What do you think is so difficult about it.
The moon and sun, due to their respective distances and sizes are approximately the same angular size.
The moon is more variable due to its elliptical orbit.

If the moon passes in front of the sun, it will block the light of the sun.

What is wrong with this explanation?


I don't want to sound arogant here, but your explanation doesn't make any sense. This does:

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/73/77/55/737755f8ef50768472adb34d4d5c4ce3.jpg)

Oh, you most certainly don't sound arrogant. Ignorant and easily convinced by silly diagrams, but certainly not arrogant.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: savagepilot on July 26, 2017, 06:40:47 PM
Round planet orbits sun, round moon orbits  planet, sometimes moon gets between sun and planet.

Eclipse.

Not likely. Ever heard of the Mayans? See video



I stopped at 4 minutes when he said "we know the earth has neither rotatonal nor orbital velocity. That has been proven," without citing his source or proof, and immediately following "we know the Earthis a flat plane, that has been proven," with, again, nothing to back that up.  This video is balderdash because he is attempting to prove that which he claims is already proven, this supporting this proof. Circular logic.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: MicroBeta on July 26, 2017, 07:00:19 PM
Hey globers! If the earth is so undeniably spherical, then someone explain to me how there is going to be a perfect solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017.
Seriously? What do you think is so difficult about it.
The moon and sun, due to their respective distances and sizes are approximately the same angular size.
The moon is more variable due to its elliptical orbit.

If the moon passes in front of the sun, it will block the light of the sun.

What is wrong with this explanation?


I don't want to sound arogant here, but your explanation doesn't make any sense. This does:

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/73/77/55/737755f8ef50768472adb34d4d5c4ce3.jpg)
It's been a while but IIRC, that's a convexo concave lens.  Your refraction angles are all wrong.  You should probably check the various kinds of lenses prior to posting a picture like this.  In particular a convexo concave lens.

A convexo concave lens is about two thirds of the way down.

https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/lightandcolor/lenses.html

Mike
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: InFlatEarth on August 04, 2017, 03:02:06 AM
OK all you Heliocentric Priest,

Can you explain this to me about the shadows of the Solar Eclipse on Earth.

If the Moons diameter is 3474 km, all when light hits an object is parallel to it, and  it's shadow must be equal to or greater than the objects dimensions, why does the moon shadow on a Solar eclipse is only 70 miles wide?

Video time 8:28 till end



The Heliocentric hypothesis is wrong!!!!
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: InFlatEarth on August 04, 2017, 03:37:00 AM
(https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/usa_eclipse_map.jpg)
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Crutchwater on August 04, 2017, 03:40:00 AM
Sorry, I could only watch until I heard this dumbasses theory that NASA is lying to us with a goal of "reducing the earth population to 500,000"

I may try again later, but I think two words should help you.

Distance

Scale
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: sandokhan on August 04, 2017, 03:42:25 AM
Not likely. Ever heard of the Mayans? See video

I was the first to specifically state that the solar eclipse is not caused by the Moon.

I mentioned Rahu and Ketu, the Black Sun, many years ago.

Subsequently, my ideas were copied and used without acknowledging the source.

Not only that, but I provided the detailed analysis of the Allais effect, the most direct proof that the Moon does not cause the solar eclipse.

Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: southern hemispherer on August 04, 2017, 04:18:23 AM
OK all you Heliocentric Priest,

Can you explain this to me about the shadows of the Solar Eclipse on Earth.

If the Moons diameter is 3474 km, all when light hits an object is parallel to it, and  it's shadow must be equal to or greater than the objects dimensions, why does the moon shadow on a Solar eclipse is only 70 miles wide,

The Heliocentric hypothesis is wrong!!!!

Idiot, the sun is 40 times wider than the moon. If you don't understand a simple concept like light from each edge of this wider sun converging towards a central point after passing the moon, then go back to school, assuming you went there in the first place!
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Sentinel on August 04, 2017, 04:27:42 AM
Not likely. Ever heard of the Mayans? See video

I was the first to specifically state that the solar eclipse is not caused by the Moon.

I mentioned Rahu and Ketu, the Black Sun, many years ago.

Subsequently, my ideas were copied and used without acknowledging the source.

Not only that, but I provided the detailed analysis of the Allais effect, the most direct proof that the Moon does not cause the solar eclipse.

Is there, by any chance, something like aether involved?
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: southern hemispherer on August 04, 2017, 04:33:39 AM
Not likely. Ever heard of the Mayans? See video

I was the first to specifically state that the solar eclipse is not caused by the Moon.

I mentioned Rahu and Ketu, the Black Sun, many years ago.

Subsequently, my ideas were copied and used without acknowledging the source.

Not only that, but I provided the detailed analysis of the Allais effect, the most direct proof that the Moon does not cause the solar eclipse.
Amazing how this black sun never blocks any stars at night! Amazing how it just happens to be in the exact same place as the moon would be projected to be on any model! Amazing how you cannot explain why the umbra is 70 miles wide this time, but can vary  from no umbra to an even larger umbra! Nor can you explain the penumbra which is massive! Come on, give us a model of how the magical black sun would be able to do all the things that the elliptical orbits of the earth and moon allow for explanations and prediction of all eclipses past and future!
I guess it is all just some mystical bullshit which FE is famous for!
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Sentinel on August 04, 2017, 04:37:42 AM
OK all you Heliocentric Priest,

Can you explain this to me about the shadows of the Solar Eclipse on Earth.

If the Moons diameter is 3474 km, all when light hits an object is parallel to it, and  it's shadow must be equal to or greater than the objects dimensions, why does the moon shadow on a Solar eclipse is only 70 miles wide?

Video time 8:28 till end



The Heliocentric hypothesis is wrong!!!!

Gosh, not this again...  :P
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbra,_penumbra_and_antumbra
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: frenat on August 04, 2017, 05:07:52 AM
OK all you Heliocentric Priest,

Can you explain this to me about the shadows of the Solar Eclipse on Earth.

If the Moons diameter is 3474 km, all when light hits an object is parallel to it, and  it's shadow must be equal to or greater than the objects dimensions, why does the moon shadow on a Solar eclipse is only 70 miles wide?

Video time 8:28 till end



The Heliocentric hypothesis is wrong!!!!
http://mathscinotes.com/2010/10/solar-eclipse-math/
the sun is very large so the shadow converges over distance.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: southern hemispherer on August 04, 2017, 06:42:31 AM
"Moreover, both the Black Sun and the Shadow Moon orbit at a low altitude beyond the Dome, and only cross the sky to cause the solar or the lunar eclipse (respectively)."
The black sun and shadow moon pass through the dome? You are truly an imaginative idiot!
Does this black sun also change size, since it would have to be bigger than the sun to make a 70 mile umbra this time around, but during an annular eclipse it would have to be smaller than the sun, as the edges of the sun are visible? As for your 15 mile high sun and 25 mile high stars, you are one of a kind, a true flatretard.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Crutchwater on August 04, 2017, 07:02:33 AM
Amazing how this black sun never blocks any stars at night!

Johnorbital said the same thing with regard to the lunar eclipse:

I asked why your 'slightly transparent extra celestial body' doesn't block out the lights of other stars.

And you did receive the answer: it has everything to do with the DISTANCE involved.

In the first case, the Shadow Moon passes exactly in front of the Moon, perhaps less than a few hundred meters; as such, the radiation emitted by the Moon is picked up by the Shadow Moon, and its form can be seen, but only as it passes in front of the Moon.

The stars orbit much farther above: perhaps some 20-25 more kilometers in altitude. Their radiation is not nearly strong enough to make the Shadow Moon manifest itself.

Moreover, both the Black Sun and the Shadow Moon orbit at a low altitude beyond the Dome, and only cross the sky to cause the solar or the lunar eclipse (respectively).

So this "slightly transparent extra celestial body" is kinda like Transitions eyeglass lenses????

It gets more opaque as light increases??

That is the most awesome thing I've heard all week!
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: InFlatEarth on August 04, 2017, 07:07:42 AM
Basically it said that the shadow cast by a light source will always be greater or equal to the size of the object.

Why then, do we only see 70 miles of moon shadow during a solar eclipse on the earth if the moon has a diameter of 3474 km.

A very valid point, since the light source, the sun has all of its sun rays parallel between the moon and the Earth. See image below

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Seasons.svg/1280px-Seasons.svg.png)
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: frenat on August 04, 2017, 07:09:57 AM
Basically it said that the shadow cast by a light source will always be greater or equal to the size of the object.

Why then, do we only see 70 miles of moon shadow during a solar eclipse on the earth if the moon has a diameter of 3474 km.

A very valid point, since the light source, the sun has all of its sun rays parallel between the moon and the Earth. See image below

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Seasons.svg/1280px-Seasons.svg.png)
Again,
http://mathscinotes.com/2010/10/solar-eclipse-math/
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: InFlatEarth on August 04, 2017, 07:33:41 AM
Why does the site use this image to depict the sun's rays and not parallel as we have been told for all these years in school.

(https://mathscinotes.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/symboldefinitions.png?resize=640%2C313)

and not this one

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Seasons.svg/1280px-Seasons.svg.png)

Can you make me a photo of an object that will have a smaller shadow than its size?
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: frenat on August 04, 2017, 07:42:50 AM
They are effectively parallel for most anything you can measure by yourself.  The convergence happens over very long distances.  The same thing happens with the size of the Earth's shadow on the Moon and is one of the ways to estimate the moon's distance.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Sentinel on August 04, 2017, 07:44:49 AM
Why does the site use this image to depict the sun's rays and not parallel as we have been told for all these years in school.

(https://mathscinotes.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/symboldefinitions.png?resize=640%2C313)

and not this one

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Seasons.svg/1280px-Seasons.svg.png)

Can you make me a photo of an object that will have a smaller shadow than its size?

Learn the fuck what Umbra and Penumbra means, this is getting tiresome.  :P
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: InFlatEarth on August 04, 2017, 07:46:01 AM
I have created a new thread, lets talk their

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=71512.0
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: southern hemispherer on August 04, 2017, 07:46:12 AM
Why does the site use this image to depict the sun's rays and not parallel as we have been told for all these years in school.

(https://mathscinotes.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/symboldefinitions.png?resize=640%2C313)

and not this one

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Seasons.svg/1280px-Seasons.svg.png)

Can you make me a photo of an object that will have a smaller shadow than its size?
Yes, so could you!
Hang a tennis ball from a piece of string, use a light source that is wider than the tennis ball, and the shadow caste on the wall will vary according to the distance you move the light source away from the ball, and you can vary the distance the ball is from the wall to add further examples! Then use a ping pong ball and notice the differences.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: InFlatEarth on August 04, 2017, 07:49:30 AM
Why does the site use this image to depict the sun's rays and not parallel as we have been told for all these years in school.

(https://mathscinotes.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/symboldefinitions.png?resize=640%2C313)

and not this one

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Seasons.svg/1280px-Seasons.svg.png)

Can you make me a photo of an object that will have a smaller shadow than its size?
Yes, so could you!
Hang a tennis ball from a piece of string, use a light source that is wider than the tennis ball, and the shadow caste on the wall will vary according to the distance you move the light source away from the ball, and you can vary the distance the ball is from the wall to add further examples! Then use a ping pong ball and notice the differences.

I have created a new thread, lets talk their

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=71512.0
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: southern hemispherer on August 04, 2017, 07:53:37 AM
They are effectively parallel for most anything you can measure by yourself.  The convergence happens over very long distances.  The same thing happens with the size of the Earth's shadow on the Moon and is one of the ways to estimate the moon's distance.

Add to this that the sun is not a flipping spotlight, as FE'ers assume, but that light emanates from each point on its surface outwards in all directions. Since the sun is bigger than the moon, the outer parts of the sun have rays that converge towards a single point after passing the moon, and depending on the distance from the earth to the moon at the time, the larger or shorter the umbra shadow.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: InFlatEarth on August 04, 2017, 07:56:34 AM
They are effectively parallel for most anything you can measure by yourself.  The convergence happens over very long distances.  The same thing happens with the size of the Earth's shadow on the Moon and is one of the ways to estimate the moon's distance.

Add to this that the sun is not a flipping spotlight, as FE'ers assume, but that light emanates from each point on its surface outwards in all directions. Since the sun is bigger than the moon, the outer parts of the sun have rays that converge towards a single point after passing the moon, and depending on the distance from the earth to the moon at the time, the larger or shorter the umbra shadow.

I have created a new thread, lets talk their

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=71512.0
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: markjo on August 04, 2017, 08:02:41 AM
OK all you Heliocentric Priest,

Can you explain this to me about the shadows of the Solar Eclipse on Earth.

If the Moons diameter is 3474 km, all when light hits an object is parallel to it, and  it's shadow must be equal to or greater than the objects dimensions, why does the moon shadow on a Solar eclipse is only 70 miles wide?
Maybe you should as Dutchy to explain how an accurate scale model of the sun-earth-moon can help clear up some common misconceptions about eclipses.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: InFlatEarth on August 04, 2017, 09:05:42 AM
OK all you Heliocentric Priest,

Can you explain this to me about the shadows of the Solar Eclipse on Earth.

If the Moons diameter is 3474 km, all when light hits an object is parallel to it, and  it's shadow must be equal to or greater than the objects dimensions, why does the moon shadow on a Solar eclipse is only 70 miles wide?
Maybe you should as Dutchy to explain how an accurate scale model of the sun-earth-moon can help clear up some common misconceptions about eclipses.

I have created a new thread, lets talk their

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=71512.0
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: sandokhan on August 04, 2017, 11:50:30 PM
As for your 15 mile high sun and 25 mile high stars, you are one of a kind

Then, you be the first REtard to explain the acceleration of the rate of axial precession as it applies to the Earth - Sirius distance:

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1795032#msg1795032

Basic information the subject:

The greatest American mathematician of the 19th century, Simon Newcomb, discovered that the axial precession of the Earth is accelerating.

Simon Newcomb included a “constant” in his precession formula to get it to match the increasing rate of precession that was observed leading up to his era.

The “constant” amount was .000222 arc seconds per year.

In 1900 the precession rate was 50.2564 (USNO).

In 2000 the precession rate was 50.290966 (AA).

This shows us the precession rate has increased over the past 100 years by .0346 for an average of .000346” per/year. Comparing this to Newcomb’s 0.000222” figure,  we can see the actual rate of change has not simply increased at a “constant” rate – it has increased at an “exponential” rate.

(https://s22.postimg.org/x002plw4x/pre1.jpg)

This, by itself, is enough to shatter to pieces Newtonian mechanics:

The mass of the Sun/Moon/planets has not increased (we all know that the mass of the Sun is actually constantly decreasing).

The orbital distances are the same (and the Moon is constantly receding from the Earth).


Precession has nothing to do with the law of attractive gravitation.


Then you, the REtard, have a huge problem on your hands.

HOW or WHY does Sirius keep up so precisely with the exponentially increasing rate of precession?

How can Sirius' proper motion stay synched up so precisely with precession, when the rate of precession itself is changing?


If any local force in here the "heliocentrical" solar system drove up the rate of precession, it would NOT also drive up the proper motion of Sirius across the sky.



In the official theory of astrophysics, Sirius is 8.6 LIGHT YEARS from Earth.

THAT IS 81 TRILLION KILOMETERS.

And yet it keeps up precisely with the exponential increase of the rate of precession.



Dr. Jad Buchwald (Caltech):

Sirius remains about the same distance from the equinoxes—and so from the solstices— throughout these many centuries, despite precession.

".... despite precession, Sirius and the solstice must remain about the same distance in time from one another during most of Egyptian history."


It is recognized that from the beginning of the empire and during the entire dynastic period the rising of Sirius with the Sun always occurred around the time of the Summer solstice.

The implication of this astronomical fact is best explained by Jed Z. Buchwald, a distinguished Professor of History and Science, in his paper “Egyptian Stars under Paris Skies” (Caltech, Engineering & Science No. 4, 2003), where he discusses the meaning of the Zodiac that has been engraved in the ceiling of the temple of Dendera in Egypt:

“The solstice is, after all, extraordinarily hard to pin-point by observation, and in any case it was known from Greek texts that the Egyptians were particularly concerned with the heliacal rising of the brightest star in the sky, Sirius—that is, with the night when Sirius first appears, just before dawn. In Egyptian prehistory this event certainly preceded the annual flooding of the Nile, which was of obvious agricultural importance. Would not precession have moved Sirius along with the zodiacal stars, eventually decoupling its heliacal rising from the solstice, and so from the annual inundation? We know today that the inundation occurs after the June beginning of the rainy season in Ethiopia, where the Blue Nile rises. And yet Sirius’ heliacal rising remained a central marker of the year throughout Egyptian history.” (p 25)

".... despite precession, Sirius and the solstice must remain about the same distance in time from one another during most of Egyptian history. Indeed they do, though it’s doubtful that Burckhardt and Coraboeuf had thought it through. Because of Sirius’ position, and the latitudes at which the Egyptians observed the sky, both Sirius’ heliacal rising and the summer solstice remained nearly the same number of days apart throughout Egyptian history even though the zodiac moves slowly around the ecliptic." (pp 29)

Buchwald, who produced a revealing diagram on the ‘Heliacal Risings of Sirius’ in relation to the vernal points (for the period of 2900 BCE to 2941 CE at intervals of 1460 years) using TheSky software, makes it very clear that "Sirius remains about the same distance from the equinoxes - and so from the solstices - throughout these many centuries, despite precession".


Unless you can explain this paradox, you should shut the fuck up, and accept that the distance from Earth is Sirius is much smaller than we have been led to believe.


The black sun and shadow moon pass through the dome?

Only a high school dropout like yourself could have made such an inference.

I never said anything of the kind.

On the contrary.

Each and every heavenly body orbits OUTSIDE the first dome.

Here is the basic proof that the Moon cannot and does not cause the solar eclipse: the Allais effect.

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg760382#msg760382


Your scientific reach is way beyond your grasp, you dullard.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: rabinoz on August 05, 2017, 02:54:00 AM
OK all you Heliocentric Priest,
So sorry, we don't have any Heliocentric Priests. So care to ask your question properly.

Bye bye.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: rabinoz on August 05, 2017, 03:01:05 AM
As for your 15 mile high sun and 25 mile high stars, you are one of a kind
I don't see any discussion of "your 15 mile high sun and 25 mile high stars"!
I thought it was 15 km and 25 km, but what would I know.
Also, how far are Venus and Mercury from Earth?

So care to try again?
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: MicroBeta on August 05, 2017, 07:08:17 AM
This shows it pretty well

Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: SGExtracts710 on August 05, 2017, 10:37:18 AM
question is, why in the video on the NASA site, having them SHOW and explain how it happens... the earth is spinning the opposite way of the moons rotation when our ENTIRE LIVES we have been told that the moon rotates the same way as the earth but the earth is 27x faster than the moon.... so in all actuality... the shadow of the Eclipse should be moving west to east as the earth is rotating the same way and faster than the moon!?!?!?! any video you look for this or ANY eclipse it ALWAYS shows the rotations in opposite directions... wtf is up with that!?

here is the LINK on NASA's site

https://nasasearch.nasa.gov/search?query=solar+eclipse&affiliate=nasa&utf8=%E2%9C%93

Here is the actual video link...



VIDEO MADE BY NASA.

so I just find that very confusing as I was a Advanced Physics major so those trajectories make NO sense what so ever.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: petej0 on August 05, 2017, 10:40:42 AM
question is, why in the video on the NASA site, having them SHOW and explain how it happens... the earth is spinning the opposite way of the moons rotation when our ENTIRE LIVES we have been told that the moon rotates the same way as the earth but the earth is 27x faster than the moon.... so in all actuality... the shadow of the Eclipse should be moving west to east as the earth is rotating the same way and faster than the moon!?!?!?! any video you look for this or ANY eclipse it ALWAYS shows the rotations in opposite directions... wtf is up with that!?

here is the LINK on NASA's site

https://nasasearch.nasa.gov/search?query=solar+eclipse&affiliate=nasa&utf8=%E2%9C%93

Here is the actual video link...



VIDEO MADE BY NASA.

so I just find that very confusing as I was a Advanced Physics major so those trajectories make NO sense what so ever.

It is confusing, but they are showing the eclipse from the moons perspective as it crosses the earth.  The moon is traveling slightly faster then the earths rotation, so the shadow moves west to east.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: SGExtracts710 on August 05, 2017, 10:45:50 AM
question is, why in the video on the NASA site, having them SHOW and explain how it happens... the earth is spinning the opposite way of the moons rotation when our ENTIRE LIVES we have been told that the moon rotates the same way as the earth but the earth is 27x faster than the moon.... so in all actuality... the shadow of the Eclipse should be moving west to east as the earth is rotating the same way and faster than the moon!?!?!?! any video you look for this or ANY eclipse it ALWAYS shows the rotations in opposite directions... wtf is up with that!?

here is the LINK on NASA's site

https://nasasearch.nasa.gov/search?query=solar+eclipse&affiliate=nasa&utf8=%E2%9C%93

Here is the actual video link...



VIDEO MADE BY NASA.

so I just find that very confusing as I was a Advanced Physics major so those trajectories make NO sense what so ever.

It is confusing, but they are showing the eclipse from the moons perspective as it crosses the earth.  The moon is traveling slightly faster then the earths rotation, so the shadow moves west to east.

But how is that correct if the earth travels 27x faster than the moon.... how is the moon moving "slightly" faster than the earth. do you have the mathematical equation to show that "slightly faster" movement than the earth. cause last I checked it takes 27 days for a full orbit of the moon and our 24hou days aren't more than 27 days long so it is physically impossible for the moon to be moving :slightly faster" than the earth spinning the same way. and that still doesn't explain why the two are spinning in opposite directions. why would NASA release false information as fact?
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Sentinel on August 05, 2017, 11:00:27 AM
question is, why in the video on the NASA site, having them SHOW and explain how it happens... the earth is spinning the opposite way of the moons rotation when our ENTIRE LIVES we have been told that the moon rotates the same way as the earth but the earth is 27x faster than the moon.... so in all actuality... the shadow of the Eclipse should be moving west to east as the earth is rotating the same way and faster than the moon!?!?!?! any video you look for this or ANY eclipse it ALWAYS shows the rotations in opposite directions... wtf is up with that!?

here is the LINK on NASA's site

https://nasasearch.nasa.gov/search?query=solar+eclipse&affiliate=nasa&utf8=%E2%9C%93

Here is the actual video link...



VIDEO MADE BY NASA.

so I just find that very confusing as I was a Advanced Physics major so those trajectories make NO sense what so ever.

It is confusing, but they are showing the eclipse from the moons perspective as it crosses the earth.  The moon is traveling slightly faster then the earths rotation, so the shadow moves west to east.

But how is that correct if the earth travels 27x faster than the moon.... how is the moon moving "slightly" faster than the earth. do you have the mathematical equation to show that "slightly faster" movement than the earth. cause last I checked it takes 27 days for a full orbit of the moon and our 24hou days aren't more than 27 days long so it is physically impossible for the moon to be moving :slightly faster" than the earth spinning the same way. and that still doesn't explain why the two are spinning in opposite directions. why would NASA release false information as fact?

Since you have claimed before to be a physics major you probs should know the difference between angular and orbital velocity in regard of different diameters, right?
Think of it, take your time, and then come back.  :P
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: SGExtracts710 on August 05, 2017, 11:07:07 AM
question is, why in the video on the NASA site, having them SHOW and explain how it happens... the earth is spinning the opposite way of the moons rotation when our ENTIRE LIVES we have been told that the moon rotates the same way as the earth but the earth is 27x faster than the moon.... so in all actuality... the shadow of the Eclipse should be moving west to east as the earth is rotating the same way and faster than the moon!?!?!?! any video you look for this or ANY eclipse it ALWAYS shows the rotations in opposite directions... wtf is up with that!?

here is the LINK on NASA's site

https://nasasearch.nasa.gov/search?query=solar+eclipse&affiliate=nasa&utf8=%E2%9C%93

Here is the actual video link...



VIDEO MADE BY NASA.

so I just find that very confusing as I was a Advanced Physics major so those trajectories make NO sense what so ever.

It is confusing, but they are showing the eclipse from the moons perspective as it crosses the earth.  The moon is traveling slightly faster then the earths rotation, so the shadow moves west to east.

But how is that correct if the earth travels 27x faster than the moon.... how is the moon moving "slightly" faster than the earth. do you have the mathematical equation to show that "slightly faster" movement than the earth. cause last I checked it takes 27 days for a full orbit of the moon and our 24hou days aren't more than 27 days long so it is physically impossible for the moon to be moving :slightly faster" than the earth spinning the same way. and that still doesn't explain why the two are spinning in opposite directions. why would NASA release false information as fact?

Since you have claimed before to be a physics major you probs should know the difference between angular and orbital velocity in regard of different diameters, right?
Think of it, take your time, and then come back.  :P

Yes very aware of how that works, still doesn't explain why NASA has posted a video that shows OPPOSITE rotations of moon and earth as to show how the shadow will draw across the US continent.

and yea, atleast I can admit I didn't think of the suns angular disordinance relative to the rotation of the earth. in a sense yes, it would go west to east as the sun moves against our rotaion (as it stays fixed and we move CC) faster than the moon would allowing it to cast a shadow west to east.

still would love to know why the Nasa video is Lacking hard
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: The Real Celine Dion on August 05, 2017, 11:11:21 AM
The moon's orbital velocity>earth's rotational velocity
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Sentinel on August 05, 2017, 11:15:27 AM
question is, why in the video on the NASA site, having them SHOW and explain how it happens... the earth is spinning the opposite way of the moons rotation when our ENTIRE LIVES we have been told that the moon rotates the same way as the earth but the earth is 27x faster than the moon.... so in all actuality... the shadow of the Eclipse should be moving west to east as the earth is rotating the same way and faster than the moon!?!?!?! any video you look for this or ANY eclipse it ALWAYS shows the rotations in opposite directions... wtf is up with that!?

here is the LINK on NASA's site

https://nasasearch.nasa.gov/search?query=solar+eclipse&affiliate=nasa&utf8=%E2%9C%93

Here is the actual video link...



VIDEO MADE BY NASA.

so I just find that very confusing as I was a Advanced Physics major so those trajectories make NO sense what so ever.

It is confusing, but they are showing the eclipse from the moons perspective as it crosses the earth.  The moon is traveling slightly faster then the earths rotation, so the shadow moves west to east.

But how is that correct if the earth travels 27x faster than the moon.... how is the moon moving "slightly" faster than the earth. do you have the mathematical equation to show that "slightly faster" movement than the earth. cause last I checked it takes 27 days for a full orbit of the moon and our 24hou days aren't more than 27 days long so it is physically impossible for the moon to be moving :slightly faster" than the earth spinning the same way. and that still doesn't explain why the two are spinning in opposite directions. why would NASA release false information as fact?

Since you have claimed before to be a physics major you probs should know the difference between angular and orbital velocity in regard of different diameters, right?
Think of it, take your time, and then come back.  :P

Yes very aware of how that works, still doesn't explain why NASA has posted a video that shows OPPOSITE rotations of moon and earth as to show how the shadow will draw across the US continent.

and yea, atleast I can admit I didn't think of the suns angular disordinance relative to the rotation of the earth. in a sense yes, it would go west to east as the sun moves against our rotaion (as it stays fixed and we move CC) faster than the moon would allowing it to cast a shadow west to east.

still would love to know why the Nasa video is Lacking hard

Actually where in that video did NASA show opposite rotations of Moon and Earth?  ???
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: SGExtracts710 on August 05, 2017, 11:17:23 AM
The moon's orbital velocity>earth's rotational velocity

yes very aware as I just stated up above...

same concept as a race track.. your inside lane will always be faster than your outside lane in relativity to speed/velocity.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: SGExtracts710 on August 05, 2017, 11:21:32 AM
question is, why in the video on the NASA site, having them SHOW and explain how it happens... the earth is spinning the opposite way of the moons rotation when our ENTIRE LIVES we have been told that the moon rotates the same way as the earth but the earth is 27x faster than the moon.... so in all actuality... the shadow of the Eclipse should be moving west to east as the earth is rotating the same way and faster than the moon!?!?!?! any video you look for this or ANY eclipse it ALWAYS shows the rotations in opposite directions... wtf is up with that!?

here is the LINK on NASA's site

https://nasasearch.nasa.gov/search?query=solar+eclipse&affiliate=nasa&utf8=%E2%9C%93

Here is the actual video link...



VIDEO MADE BY NASA.

so I just find that very confusing as I was a Advanced Physics major so those trajectories make NO sense what so ever.

It is confusing, but they are showing the eclipse from the moons perspective as it crosses the earth.  The moon is traveling slightly faster then the earths rotation, so the shadow moves west to east.

But how is that correct if the earth travels 27x faster than the moon.... how is the moon moving "slightly" faster than the earth. do you have the mathematical equation to show that "slightly faster" movement than the earth. cause last I checked it takes 27 days for a full orbit of the moon and our 24hou days aren't more than 27 days long so it is physically impossible for the moon to be moving :slightly faster" than the earth spinning the same way. and that still doesn't explain why the two are spinning in opposite directions. why would NASA release false information as fact?

Since you have claimed before to be a physics major you probs should know the difference between angular and orbital velocity in regard of different diameters, right?
Think of it, take your time, and then come back.  :P

Yes very aware of how that works, still doesn't explain why NASA has posted a video that shows OPPOSITE rotations of moon and earth as to show how the shadow will draw across the US continent.

and yea, atleast I can admit I didn't think of the suns angular disordinance relative to the rotation of the earth. in a sense yes, it would go west to east as the sun moves against our rotaion (as it stays fixed and we move CC) faster than the moon would allowing it to cast a shadow west to east.

still would love to know why the Nasa video is Lacking hard

Actually where in that video did NASA show opposite rotations of Moon and Earth?  ???

I paid more attention to the video and now put 2 and 2 together and realize they are shoing the individualy path of the eclipse... not the rotations of both LOL.... minor Derp moment
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Alpha2Omega on August 05, 2017, 12:10:35 PM
As for your 15 mile high sun and 25 mile high stars, you are one of a kind

Then, you be the first REtard to explain the acceleration of the rate of axial precession as it applies to the Earth - Sirius distance:

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1795032#msg1795032

Basic information the subject:

The greatest American mathematician of the 19th century, Simon Newcomb, discovered that the axial precession of the Earth is accelerating.

Simon Newcomb included a “constant” in his precession formula to get it to match the increasing rate of precession that was observed leading up to his era.

The “constant” amount was .000222 arc seconds per year.

In 1900 the precession rate was 50.2564 (USNO).

In 2000 the precession rate was 50.290966 (AA).

This shows us the precession rate has increased over the past 100 years by .0346 for an average of .000346” per/year. Comparing this to Newcomb’s 0.000222” figure,  we can see the actual rate of change has not simply increased at a “constant” rate – it has increased at an “exponential” rate.

<Big ol' table that illustrates sandokhan's ignorance of the concept of experimental error and what happens when you extrapolate too far> (https://s22.postimg.org/x002plw4x/pre1.jpg)


(http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i59/Jazzgirl999/aw_jeez_not_this_shit_again.jpg)

Haven't we been through this before? Why, yes, we have, more than a year ago! (https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=66455.msg1778533#msg1778533) Do you forget this, or hope your audience has, or maybe you think you can trot the same old bunk out to a new audience and someone will buy it?

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This, by itself, is enough to shatter to pieces Newtonian mechanics:

Lol. Nope. Not even if "it has increased at an 'exponential' rate" were true.

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The mass of the Sun/Moon/planets has not increased (we all know that the mass of the Sun is actually constantly decreasing).

The orbital distances are the same (and the Moon is constantly receding from the Earth).

Precession has nothing to do with the law of attractive gravitation.

::)

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Then you, the REtard, have a huge problem on your hands.

HOW or WHY does Sirius keep up so precisely with the exponentially increasing rate of precession?

How can Sirius' proper motion stay synched up so precisely with precession, when the rate of precession itself is changing?

That's easy. It doesnt! Next.

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If any local force in here the "heliocentrical" solar system drove up the rate of precession, it would NOT also drive up the proper motion of Sirius across the sky. [/b]

... and it doesn't. Exactly as expected.

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In the official theory of astrophysics, Sirius is 8.6 LIGHT YEARS from Earth.

THAT IS 81 TRILLION KILOMETERS.

That sounds about right.

The Hipparcos astrometric catalog gives the parallax for Sirius (HIP 32349) as 379.21 milliarcseconds. That means that Sirius appears to change position due to parallax relative to vastly more distant stars by 0.37921 seconds of arc at opposite points on the earth's orbit. This gives a distance of 2.64 parsecs (1 parsec (pc) is the distance at which earth's orbit to produces 1 second of parallax). Since 1 parsec is 3.26 light years (ly), 2.64 pc * 3.26 ly/pc = 8.6 ly, and 8.6 ly * 9.461 X 1012 km/ly = 8.14 X 1013 km (81.4 trillion km). So those figures check.

81 TRILLION(!) KILOMETERS is a big number (on a human scale, but not so much when dealing with astronomical distances; Sirius is one of the nearest stars). Note the all caps - that must mean that sandokhan thinks we're supposed to be IMPRESSED or something.

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And yet it keeps up precisely with the exponential increase of the rate of precession.

Dr. Jad Buchwald (Caltech):

Sirius remains about the same distance from the equinoxes—and so from the solstices— throughout these many centuries, despite precession.

<etc.>

Hmmm... that's an interesting assertion in view of the fact that Sirius (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius) has changed its position with respect to the equator and equinox by about 0.75° since 1950 (from the Becvar, Atlas of the Heavens II - Catalogue 1950 (https://archive.org/download/AtlasOfTheHeavensIi-Catalogue1950/Becvar-AtlasOfTheHeavensIiCatalogue1950_text.pdf) [GC 8833, on p.198] [Note: that link is a 12 Mb pdf file download], 06h 42.9m RA, −16° 39' Dec; by J2000: 06h 45m 08.91728s, −16° 42′ 58.0171″[nb]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius#cite_note-aaa474_2_653-2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius#cite_note-aaa474_2_653-2)[/nb], and Stellarium for Sirius' location as of today:  06h 45m 56s, −16° 44′ 19″). Of that, about 0.025° is due to proper motion and the rest due to precession. Its PM in right ascension is in the opposite direction as its shift in RA due to precession and PM in declination is the same direction as precession. The upshot is that Sirius' proper motion is unrelated to precession of the equator and equinoxes, and it's no different from any other star in that regard.

Can you provide further citations with more up to date support for the assertion that Sirius is fixed with respect to the equator and equinoxes? According to modern observations, that assertion is clearly incorrect.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: MicroBeta on August 05, 2017, 12:43:08 PM
question is, why in the video on the NASA site, having them SHOW and explain how it happens... the earth is spinning the opposite way of the moons rotation when our ENTIRE LIVES we have been told that the moon rotates the same way as the earth but the earth is 27x faster than the moon.... so in all actuality... the shadow of the Eclipse should be moving west to east as the earth is rotating the same way and faster than the moon!?!?!?! any video you look for this or ANY eclipse it ALWAYS shows the rotations in opposite directions... wtf is up with that!?

here is the LINK on NASA's site

https://nasasearch.nasa.gov/search?query=solar+eclipse&affiliate=nasa&utf8=%E2%9C%93

Here is the actual video link...



VIDEO MADE BY NASA.

so I just find that very confusing as I was a Advanced Physics major so those trajectories make NO sense what so ever.

Maybe this will clear it up for you...

This shows it pretty well


Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: sandokhan on August 05, 2017, 12:58:39 PM
Haven't we been through this before?

(https://sd.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/i/how-about-a-nice-big-cup-of-shut-the-fuck-up-5.png)

You tried your best to minimize the fact that the rate of axial precession is actually accelerating.

At first you tried to DENY THE DATA.

Then, realizing your mistake, you accepted the final figures.

The published constants are certainly close enough for my needs.

They should be.

They were calculated by none other than Simon Newcomb.

The figures are very clear.

(https://s22.postimg.org/x002plw4x/pre1.jpg)

Not even if "it has increased at an 'exponential' rate" were true.

But it is true.

The rate is accelerating.

Please explain why.

"The fact of the matter is the gravity of the Sun and Moon have been very stable for
millions of years [according to the official theory of astrophysics] and there should be no reason in the lunisolar model for this significant upward trend in the wobble rate. If  anything it might be expected to slightly “decrease” under lunisolar theory as the Moon moves a fraction of an inch farther from Earth each year and as the Sun burns up a small fraction of its mass each year. But frankly these amounts are so negligible relative to the mass and scale involved that the precession rate should be noticeably stable year after year – if these masses are indeed the cause of the wobble. Lunisolar theorists not only need to find new inputs to the precession formula for the sake of accuracy, they need to offset these slight diminishments in gravitational forces and come up with larger effects in the opposite direction."

The mass of the Sun/Moon/planets has not increased (we all know that the mass of the Sun is actually constantly decreasing).

The orbital distances are the same (and the Moon is constantly receding from the Earth).

Precession has nothing to do with the law of attractive gravitation.



Sirius has shifted a total of 0.5391° relative to the Ecliptic and Equinoxes in the 50 years between epoch J1950.0 and J2000.0, according to Stellarium.

You tried that shit before.

It didn't work then, it won't work now.

".... despite precession, Sirius and the solstice must remain about the same distance in time from one another during most of Egyptian history. Indeed they do, though it’s doubtful that Burckhardt and Coraboeuf had thought it through. Because of Sirius’ position, and the latitudes at which the Egyptians observed the sky, both Sirius’ heliacal rising and the summer solstice remained nearly the same number of days apart throughout Egyptian history even though the zodiac moves slowly around the ecliptic." (pp 29)

Buchwald, who produced a revealing diagram on the ‘Heliacal Risings of Sirius’ in relation to the vernal points (for the period of 2900 BCE to 2941 CE at intervals of 1460 years) using TheSky software, makes it very clear that "Sirius remains about the same distance from the equinoxes - and so from the solstices - throughout these many centuries, despite precession".

According to the current theory of lunisolar precession the pole, and therefore the equator of the Earth is supposed to “wobble” over a period of roughly 25800 years relative to the position of the fixed stars and the Sun. In other words, if we were to imagine the Earth ‘fixed’ in its revolution around the Sun at the time when Sirius is in conjunction with the Sun (e.g. during the Summer solstice), an observer would not only notice changes in the declination of Sirius and the other stars, but simultaneously equal changes in the declination of the Sun. In practice, however, Sirius does not show any significant variations in its position relative to the Summer solstice.

In order to account for the unusual motion of Sirius, which is minimal relative to the Summer solstice and exceptionally high with respect to the stars of the Zodiac, Karine Gadré,  the Associate Researcher at the Department of Astrophysics of the MidiPyrenees Observatory in Toulouse, France offers the following explanation:

“The low change in the celestial coordinates of Sirius comes from its high proper movement, which partly compensated the effects of precession under the Dynastic Period. […] In order to better understand how the proper movement of Sirius can partly compensate the effects of precession, do not only take into account the numerical values of the speed vector. Take also into account the position of Sirius on the celestial vault at a given instant and the direction of the speed vector.

Now we know that the proper motion of Sirius (i.e. of the Sirius system) over a period of some 5400 years is less than 2°:

"For a long time astronomers had been noticing anomalies in Sirius' proper motion; this motion, well known since Halley's time is equal to 0.0375" in RA (Right Ascension) and to 1.207" in D, (Declination), which gives a yearly resultant motion of 1.32" in the direction of 204°, which is noticeably to the south. In 1834, Bessel showed that the anomalies consisted mainly of deviations between the star's theoretical position and its actual position; these distinctly periodic differences, especially in right ascension, may be as great as 0.321", which is a considerable amount with regard to meridian observations. Overall, instead of moving through space in a straight line, Sirius appears to display a wavy trajectory."

Dr. P. Blaize, Le Compagnon de Sirius, Bull. de la Société astronomique de France (1931)

(https://s1.postimg.org/7jj1vyblr/sothic.jpg)

An Egypto-Julian calendar reveals that New Year Day (beginnings of Sothic Cycles) of the Egyptian calendar synchronized with the following tetraeterises:

Heliopolis, Egypt:
4225 BC July 15
2767 BC July 16
1311 BC July 17
145 AD July 18


This proves that Sirius is not precessing like other stars, since in this 4,370 years time period, the calendar dates have only changed by 3 calendar days!

Moreover, the heliacal rising of Sirius appears to keep up with the calendar.

This heliacal rise of Sirius also appears to be a fixed date according to the Julian calendar for over 4,000 years.


HOW or WHY does Sirius keep up so precisely with the exponentially increasing rate of precession?

How can Sirius' proper motion stay synched up so precisely with precession, when the rate of precession itself is changing?


If any local force here in "heliocentrical" solar system drove up the rate of precession, it would NOT also drive up the proper motion of Sirius across the sky.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: MicroBeta on August 05, 2017, 01:37:12 PM
Haven't we been through this before?

(https://sd.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/i/how-about-a-nice-big-cup-of-shut-the-fuck-up-5.png)

You tried your best to minimize the fact that the rate of axial precession is actually accelerating.

At first you tried to DENY THE DATA.

Then, realizing your mistake, you accepted the final figures.

The published constants are certainly close enough for my needs.

They should be.

They were calculated by none other than Simon Newcomb.

The figures are very clear.

(https://s22.postimg.org/x002plw4x/pre1.jpg)

Not even if "it has increased at an 'exponential' rate" were true.

But it is true.

The rate is accelerating.

Please explain why.

"The fact of the matter is the gravity of the Sun and Moon have been very stable for
millions of years [according to the official theory of astrophysics] and there should be no reason in the lunisolar model for this significant upward trend in the wobble rate. If  anything it might be expected to slightly “decrease” under lunisolar theory as the Moon moves a fraction of an inch farther from Earth each year and as the Sun burns up a small fraction of its mass each year. But frankly these amounts are so negligible relative to the mass and scale involved that the precession rate should be noticeably stable year after year – if these masses are indeed the cause of the wobble. Lunisolar theorists not only need to find new inputs to the precession formula for the sake of accuracy, they need to offset these slight diminishments in gravitational forces and come up with larger effects in the opposite direction."

The mass of the Sun/Moon/planets has not increased (we all know that the mass of the Sun is actually constantly decreasing).

The orbital distances are the same (and the Moon is constantly receding from the Earth).

Precession has nothing to do with the law of attractive gravitation.



Sirius has shifted a total of 0.5391° relative to the Ecliptic and Equinoxes in the 50 years between epoch J1950.0 and J2000.0, according to Stellarium.

You tried that shit before.

It didn't work then, it won't work now.

".... despite precession, Sirius and the solstice must remain about the same distance in time from one another during most of Egyptian history. Indeed they do, though it’s doubtful that Burckhardt and Coraboeuf had thought it through. Because of Sirius’ position, and the latitudes at which the Egyptians observed the sky, both Sirius’ heliacal rising and the summer solstice remained nearly the same number of days apart throughout Egyptian history even though the zodiac moves slowly around the ecliptic." (pp 29)

Buchwald, who produced a revealing diagram on the ‘Heliacal Risings of Sirius’ in relation to the vernal points (for the period of 2900 BCE to 2941 CE at intervals of 1460 years) using TheSky software, makes it very clear that "Sirius remains about the same distance from the equinoxes - and so from the solstices - throughout these many centuries, despite precession".

According to the current theory of lunisolar precession the pole, and therefore the equator of the Earth is supposed to “wobble” over a period of roughly 25800 years relative to the position of the fixed stars and the Sun. In other words, if we were to imagine the Earth ‘fixed’ in its revolution around the Sun at the time when Sirius is in conjunction with the Sun (e.g. during the Summer solstice), an observer would not only notice changes in the declination of Sirius and the other stars, but simultaneously equal changes in the declination of the Sun. In practice, however, Sirius does not show any significant variations in its position relative to the Summer solstice.

In order to account for the unusual motion of Sirius, which is minimal relative to the Summer solstice and exceptionally high with respect to the stars of the Zodiac, Karine Gadré,  the Associate Researcher at the Department of Astrophysics of the MidiPyrenees Observatory in Toulouse, France offers the following explanation:

“The low change in the celestial coordinates of Sirius comes from its high proper movement, which partly compensated the effects of precession under the Dynastic Period. […] In order to better understand how the proper movement of Sirius can partly compensate the effects of precession, do not only take into account the numerical values of the speed vector. Take also into account the position of Sirius on the celestial vault at a given instant and the direction of the speed vector.

Now we know that the proper motion of Sirius (i.e. of the Sirius system) over a period of some 5400 years is less than 2°:

"For a long time astronomers had been noticing anomalies in Sirius' proper motion; this motion, well known since Halley's time is equal to 0.0375" in RA (Right Ascension) and to 1.207" in D, (Declination), which gives a yearly resultant motion of 1.32" in the direction of 204°, which is noticeably to the south. In 1834, Bessel showed that the anomalies consisted mainly of deviations between the star's theoretical position and its actual position; these distinctly periodic differences, especially in right ascension, may be as great as 0.321", which is a considerable amount with regard to meridian observations. Overall, instead of moving through space in a straight line, Sirius appears to display a wavy trajectory."

Dr. P. Blaize, Le Compagnon de Sirius, Bull. de la Société astronomique de France (1931)

(https://s1.postimg.org/7jj1vyblr/sothic.jpg)

An Egypto-Julian calendar reveals that New Year Day (beginnings of Sothic Cycles) of the Egyptian calendar synchronized with the following tetraeterises:

Heliopolis, Egypt:
4225 BC July 15
2767 BC July 16
1311 BC July 17
145 AD July 18


This proves that Sirius is not precessing like other stars, since in this 4,370 years time period, the calendar dates have only changed by 3 calendar days!

Moreover, the heliacal rising of Sirius appears to keep up with the calendar.

This heliacal rise of Sirius also appears to be a fixed date according to the Julian calendar for over 4,000 years.


HOW or WHY does Sirius keep up so precisely with the exponentially increasing rate of precession?

How can Sirius' proper motion stay synched up so precisely with precession, when the rate of precession itself is changing?


If any local force here in "heliocentrical" solar system drove up the rate of precession, it would NOT also drive up the proper motion of Sirius across the sky.
Don't have have to explain any of what you're asking...nor could I because I'm not strong enough in celestial mechanics to do so. 

However, the fact that the current math spherical & celestial coordinate system works and not only explains what we observe but accurately predicts future eclipses.  The same math that predicts the upcoming eclipses for the next thousand years to within minutes and a fraction of degrees of latitude/longitude.

You may not like it but unless you can show the math that predicts this months eclipse is wrong then your out of water.

https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/5MCLE/5MKLE-214173.pdf

This link show eclipse path table based on the equations in the above link.  Nobody has to blindly accept the data as all the equations, assumptions, and methodologies are provided for verification.

https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEpath/SEpath2001/SE2017Aug21Tpath.html

Asking a bunch of misleading questions doesn't change the fact the that eclipses are well understood, the math describes exactly what has been observed, and is accurate to reliable predict eclipses for the next thousand years.  The math is testable and repeatable.  The very definition of an analytical solution. 

Mike
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Sentinel on August 05, 2017, 03:35:22 PM
I paid more attention to the video and now put 2 and 2 together and realize they are shoing the individualy path of the eclipse... not the rotations of both LOL.... minor Derp moment

Good, then.
Any other questions/issues about the solar eclipse in the spheroid heliocentric model?
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Alpha2Omega on August 05, 2017, 03:59:11 PM
Haven't we been through this before?

< :D Good one!> (https://sd.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/i/how-about-a-nice-big-cup-of-shut-the-fuck-up-5.png)

Well, haven't we?

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You tried your best to minimize the fact that the rate of axial precession is actually accelerating.

At first you tried to DENY THE DATA.

Where?

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Then, realizing your mistake, you accepted the final figures.

Where?

When shown reliable information that fills a gap or corrects an error in understanding, I say so, learn, and move on. You?

Why don't you link to the conversations where you claim these things happen? What are you trying to hide?

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The published constants are certainly close enough for my needs.

Would you mind linking to earlier posts instead of only quoting out of context? Thanks!

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They should be.

They were calculated by none other than Simon Newcomb.

Really?!?? Wowzers!!!! Simon Newcomb hizownself?:o?? I'm very, very deeply awed and impressed! I guess. Maybe. Is that supposed to be significant in and of itself?

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The figures are very clear.

<This, again? Still haven't figured out what experimental error is yet? Tsk!> (https://s22.postimg.org/x002plw4x/pre1.jpg)

Not even if "it has increased at an 'exponential' rate" were true.

But it is true.

The rate is accelerating.

Please explain why.

Already did, but you're still not going to like it.

Since you invoke Wikipedia, here are quotes from the article you mention:

Quote from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession#Cause
The precession of the equinoxes is caused by the gravitational forces of the Sun and the Moon, and to a lesser extent other bodies, on the Earth. It was first explained by Sir Isaac Newton.
Quote from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession#Values
In reality, more elaborate calculations on the numerical model of the Solar System show that the precessional constants have a period of about 41,000 years, the same as the obliquity of the ecliptic. Note that the constants mentioned here are the linear and all higher terms of the formula above, not the precession itself. That is,
p = A + BT + CT2 + …
is an approximation of
p = a + b sin (2πT/P), where P is the 410-century period.

...

The classical explanation: there are more things involved than just Sun-Earth-Moon.  Nice bluff, though. Too bad (for you) that it didn't work.

Note how that quote automatically links back to its source. That way you can see the context it was made within and links in that post take you to the one it's in response to. Pretty cool, huh? UNLESS, of course, you want to make it as difficult as you can to follow your argument, or to obfuscate and make disingenuous assertions; Knowing your style, I can see why you'd want to obscure and make as much as you can difficult to check.

Anyway, remember, that wikipedia article you recommended did say

Quote from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession#Cause
The precession of the equinoxes is caused by the gravitational forces of the Sun and the Moon, and to a lesser extent other bodies, on the Earth. It was first explained by Sir Isaac Newton.

Yet it says nothing at all about precession, as measured, destroying Newtonian Mechanics. I wonder why?

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"The fact of the matter is the gravity of the Sun and Moon have been very stable for
millions of years [according to the official theory of astrophysics] and there should be no reason in the lunisolar model for this significant upward trend in the wobble rate. If  anything it might be expected to slightly “decrease” under lunisolar theory as the Moon moves a fraction of an inch farther from Earth each year and as the Sun burns up a small fraction of its mass each year. But frankly these amounts are so negligible relative to the mass and scale involved that the precession rate should be noticeably stable year after year – if these masses are indeed the cause of the wobble. Lunisolar theorists not only need to find new inputs to the precession formula for the sake of accuracy, they need to offset these slight diminishments in gravitational forces and come up with larger effects in the opposite direction."[Citation needed]

The mass of the Sun/Moon/planets has not increased (we all know that the mass of the Sun is actually constantly decreasing).

The orbital distances are the same (and the Moon is constantly receding from the Earth).

Precession has nothing to do with the law of attractive gravitation.


Now there's a phenomenal example of jumping to conclusions. It's good to see you get some exercise. Don't you remember, that wikipedia article you referenced says:

Quote from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession#Cause
The precession of the equinoxes is caused by the gravitational forces of the Sun and the Moon, and to a lesser extent other bodies, on the Earth. It was first explained by Sir Isaac Newton.

Perhaps there are other masses in the solar system, like, say, oh, maybe other planets?

Do you even read the things you cite, or do you just skim them looking for some "good stuff" that you can misinterpret or intentionally misrepresent?

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Sirius has shifted a total of 0.5391° relative to the Ecliptic and Equinoxes in the 50 years between epoch J1950.0 and J2000.0, according to Stellarium.

You tried that shit before.

You never refuted it, either. Can you show, with actual data, not anecdotes, that it's incorrect?

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It didn't work then, it won't work now.

Really? So are you saying that in 1950 Sirius was at RA 06h 45m 08.91728s, Dec −16° 42′ 58.0171″, same as Jan 1 2000, and all the catalogs and atlases of the time were wrong? Or are you saying that Sirius is now (and in 2000) really at RA 06h 42.9m, Dec −16° 39', same as it was in 1950 and all the atlases and catalogs now are wrong? Or is it somewhere else entirely? Specific numbers, please, and their source.

Have you even checked to see if it's where the catalogs say it is? I do realize you may recoil in horror at being asked to actually dirty your hands by going outside to take some measurements, when you'd much rather spend your time trolling the Internet for arcane BS and then bloviating about it here. The latter is much more fun while being unproductive at the same time - perfect for you!

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<poorly-cited quotes and anecdotes>

HOW or WHY does Sirius keep up so precisely with the exponentially increasing rate of precession?

How can Sirius' proper motion stay synched up so precisely with precession, when the rate of precession itself is changing?

It's not. Simple as that.

Instead of carrying on about this by citing out of context quotes and questionable references, why don't you actually go out in the real world and check to see if your argument has any merit?

Can you show that Sirius is not at RA 06h 46m, Dec −16° 44′ now? Do you have any hard evidence that Sirius was not at RA 06h 43m, Dec −16° 39' in 1950? That's a difference of 3 minutes of Right Ascension, almost three-quarters of a degree. A change in position that large is easily detected in many currently-available amateur telescopes, and has been in professional telescopes for much more than a century. A change in position with respect to other stars in the vicinity could be detected by even the most basic instruments for centuries.

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If any local force here in "heliocentrical" solar system drove up the rate of precession, it would NOT also drive up the proper motion of Sirius across the sky.

You're right. It doesn't.

For some reason you want to think Sirius is immune to precession in spite of reliable (and verifiable) evidence to the contrary, but you're clearly wrong. It's what you do, I guess.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: sandokhan on August 05, 2017, 09:56:16 PM
alphaomega, you are trying for the upteenth time to bullshit your readers.

They can see that you have no valid arguments at all, that you are wasting everybody's time here, again.

And they do not react well at all to being treated like this: you are simply insulting their intelligence.


Your quotes are useless.

They do not address at all the situation I described: a sure sign of cognitive dissonance on your part.


Here is the situation.

The rate of axial precession is ACCELERATING.

No scientist can explain why.

You cannot bring in the influence of other planets, as their contribution is infinitesimal, in fact it would have constituted the first line of attack by astrophysicists in order to explain the acceleration of the precession; they, unlike you, know that they cannot bring such a silly argument to the table.

ONLY the gravitational effect from the Sun and from the Moon matters.


Here are the facts.

Simon Newcomb included a “constant” in his precession formula to get it to match the increasing rate of precession that was observed leading up to his era.

The “constant” amount was .000222 arc seconds per year.

In 1900 the precession rate was 50.2564 (USNO).

In 2000 the precession rate was 50.290966 (AA).

This shows us the precession rate has increased over the past 100 years by .0346 for an average of .000346” per/year. Comparing this to Newcomb’s 0.000222” figure,  we can see the actual rate of change has not simply increased at a “constant” rate – it has increased at an “exponential” rate.


The mass of the Sun/Moon/planets has not increased (we all know that the mass of the Sun is actually constantly decreasing).

The orbital distances are the same (and the Moon is constantly receding from the Earth).


Precession has nothing to do with the law of attractive gravitation.


You never refuted it, either. Can you show, with actual data, not anecdotes, that it's incorrect?

But I did in very certain terms.

It seems you are back to your old shenanigans, where a most direct proof has to be run by you once, twice, thrice, four times, maybe even five times before you get the point.


The orbit of Sirius represents one of the greatest mysteries in modern astronomy.

Read the facts which are not taken into consideration neither by the folks over at the Stellarium, nor by yourself.

In order to account for the unusual motion of Sirius, which is minimal relative to the Summer solstice and exceptionally high with respect to the stars of the Zodiac, Karine Gadré,  the Associate Researcher at the Department of Astrophysics of the MidiPyrenees Observatory in Toulouse, France offers the following explanation:

“The low change in the celestial coordinates of Sirius comes from its high proper movement, which partly compensated the effects of precession under the Dynastic Period. […] In order to better understand how the proper movement of Sirius can partly compensate the effects of precession, do not only take into account the numerical values of the speed vector. Take also into account the position of Sirius on the celestial vault at a given instant and the direction of the speed vector.

Now we know that the proper motion of Sirius (i.e. of the Sirius system) over a period of some 5400 years is less than 2°:

"For a long time astronomers had been noticing anomalies in Sirius' proper motion; this motion, well known since Halley's time is equal to 0.0375" in RA (Right Ascension) and to 1.207" in D, (Declination), which gives a yearly resultant motion of 1.32" in the direction of 204°, which is noticeably to the south. In 1834, Bessel showed that the anomalies consisted mainly of deviations between the star's theoretical position and its actual position; these distinctly periodic differences, especially in right ascension, may be as great as 0.321", which is a considerable amount with regard to meridian observations. Overall, instead of moving through space in a straight line, Sirius appears to display a wavy trajectory."

Dr. P. Blaize, Le Compagnon de Sirius, Bull. de la Société astronomique de France (1931)


Listen to the experts in the field.

Jed Buchwald (Caltech)

Sirius remains about the same distance from the equinoxes—and so from the solstices— throughout these many centuries, despite precession.

".... despite precession, Sirius and the solstice must remain about the same distance in time from one another during most of Egyptian history."

The fact that Sirius seems to maintain its position relative to the position of the sun was a surprise to most scientists (aware of precession), when it was first noticed by the French scientific community following the Egyptian discoveries of Napoleon (and the Dendera Zodiac) in the early 1800’s. Perhaps to save the lunisolar theory of precession, or at least to make sense of physics as then taught, physicist, astronomer, mathematician Jean-Baptiste Biot (21 April 1774 – 3 February 1862) proclaimed that this phenomenon was an oddity of the latitude and horizon around Dendera, meaning it just seemed as if Sirius was immune to the effects of precession. And to this day this is the assumption of many astronomers and astrophysicists.   Physicist Jed Z. Buchwald, professor of history and science and technology (Caltech and MIT) commented on this topic in his article Egyptian Stars Under Paris Skies, when he noted:

"The rising of Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens and important to Egyptians as the signal for the annual flooding of the Nile, was assumed by the French physicists to move with relation to the sun as do the constellations of the zodiac. It does not, however, as we see here."

(http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/Explanation%20of%20Heliacal%20Rising%20of%20Sirius%20by%20Physicist%20Jed%20Z.%20Buchwald.jpg)

The curved line dividing the lit from the dark regions represents the horizon near Dendera. The blue lines show the locations of the ecliptic with respect to the horizon at five helical risings separated by hundreds of years. The vernal points mark the equinoxes at these times, and the circled numbers on the lower right indicate the corresponding positions of Sirius. Sirius remains about the same distance from the equinoxes—and so from the solstices— throughout these many centuries, despite precession.


It is recognized that from the beginning of the empire and during the entire dynastic period the rising of Sirius with the Sun always occurred around the time of the Summer solstice.

The implication of this astronomical fact is best explained by Jed Z. Buchwald, a distinguished Professor of History and Science, in his paper “Egyptian Stars under Paris Skies” (Caltech, Engineering & Science No. 4, 2003), where he discusses the meaning of the Zodiac that has been engraved in the ceiling of the temple of Dendera in Egypt:

“The solstice is, after all, extraordinarily hard to pin-point by observation, and in any case it was known from Greek texts that the Egyptians were particularly concerned with the heliacal rising of the brightest star in the sky, Sirius—that is, with the night when Sirius first appears, just before dawn. In Egyptian prehistory this event certainly preceded the annual flooding of the Nile, which was of obvious agricultural importance. Would not precession have moved Sirius along with the zodiacal stars, eventually decoupling its heliacal rising from the solstice, and so from the annual inundation? We know today that the inundation occurs after the June beginning of the rainy season in Ethiopia, where the Blue Nile rises. And yet Sirius’ heliacal rising remained a central marker of the year throughout Egyptian history.” (p 25)

".... despite precession, Sirius and the solstice must remain about the same distance in time from one another during most of Egyptian history. Indeed they do, though it’s doubtful that Burckhardt and Coraboeuf had thought it through. Because of Sirius’ position, and the latitudes at which the Egyptians observed the sky, both Sirius’ heliacal rising and the summer solstice remained nearly the same number of days apart throughout Egyptian history even though the zodiac moves slowly around the ecliptic." (pp 29)

Buchwald, who produced a revealing diagram on the ‘Heliacal Risings of Sirius’ in relation to the vernal points (for the period of 2900 BCE to 2941 CE at intervals of 1460 years) using TheSky software, makes it very clear that "Sirius remains about the same distance from the equinoxes - and so from the solstices - throughout these many centuries, despite precession".


Further proof.

(https://s1.postimg.org/7jj1vyblr/sothic.jpg)

An Egypto-Julian calendar reveals that New Year Day (beginnings of Sothic Cycles) of the Egyptian calendar synchronized with the following tetraeterises:

Heliopolis, Egypt:
4225 BC July 15
2767 BC July 16
1311 BC July 17
145 AD July 18


This proves that Sirius is not precessing like other stars, since in this 4,370 years time period, the calendar dates have only changed by 3 calendar days!

Moreover, the heliacal rising of Sirius appears to keep up with the calendar.

This heliacal rise of Sirius also appears to be a fixed date according to the Julian calendar for over 4,000 years.


HOW or WHY does Sirius keep up so precisely with the exponentially increasing rate of precession?

How can Sirius' proper motion stay synched up so precisely with precession, when the rate of precession itself is changing?


If any local force here in "heliocentrical" solar system drove up the rate of precession, it would NOT also drive up the proper motion of Sirius across the sky.


Next time we meet you are going to have to explain the Perseid meteor shower paradox: a most direct contradiction of your whimsical beliefs.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: sandokhan on August 05, 2017, 10:04:16 PM
Why wait?

HERE IS THE PERSEID METEOR SHOWER PARADOX: a most direct contradiction of Newtonian mechanics.


The official chronology of history tells us that the Perseid meteor shower has occurred on the same date, each year, at least for the past 2000 years.

But that could not be true in the heliocentrical context: due to the axial precession of the Earth, there should have been a SIX DAY DIFFERENCE, as compared to what is recorded today, in the occurrence of the Perseid meteor shower during the Renaissance.


There are certain meteor showers that can be seen regularly on the same date each year.
They are thought to be the result of the Earth, moving along its orbital path around the
Sun, crossing through that point in space where a comet once intersected our orbit path.
The leftover debris hitting our atmosphere is the cause of these annual meteor showers
that come and go like clockwork. One of the strongest and most well known is the
Perseid Meteor which peaks each year every August 11th and 12th (my birthday). Ever
since I can remember this meteor shower has occurred on my birthday.

Sometime around the mid1500’s, after the St. Lawrence feast day had been established as August 10th, people began to call this meteor shower the “Tears of Saint Lawrence”, because right after the feast day the meteor shower would peak for a day or two. Still today the peak of this meteor shower is August 11th and 12th.

As long as the Earth goes around the Sun 360 degrees equinox to equinox, and we keep
our current system of leap corrections we should continue to see this meteor shower
peak every August 11th and 12th for centuries to come. This is because our current
calendar system of time loses less than 1 day every 3200 years relative to the actual
motion of the equinox within the calendar. In other words the equinox remains fixed
within the calendar moving only slightly for differences between the calendar days (365)
and the Earth’s actual rotations in a tropical year (365.2422) and always quickly adjusted
by leap days every four years.

BUT WAIT, lunisolar precession theory says the Earth does not go around the Sun 360
degrees every equinox. It says it comes up 50 arc seconds short of 360 degrees every
tropical year and this is why we see the fixed stars precess by 50 arc seconds per average
tropical year. But if the Earth does not go around the sun 360 degrees then the Perseid
meteor shower should reflect precession and slip through the calendar 1 day in every 72
years, meaning it should have moved almost six days exactly since the Gregorian
Calendar Reform in 1582. We know the fixed stars “outside the solar system” have
indeed appeared to move by this much in that time period due to precession but why
hasn’t the Perseid reference point “within the solar system” changed by this same amount of precession? If precession is caused by local sources wobbling the Earth then anything and everything outside the Earth should appear to move at the same rate, excluding proper motion.

Answer: The Earth does not change orientation to the Perseid meteor shower, or to the
Moon, or to eclipses, or to any points of planetary occultations or to anything within the
solar system, because local wobbling of the Earth does not cause precession. What we
call precession only occurs relative to the fixed stars and objects “outside the solar
system” because precession is actually due to the motion of the solar system itself.


Some Catholics refer to the Perseid meteor shower as the "tears of St. Lawrence", as August 10th is the date of the saint's martyrdom. This phenomenon that is linked to the Perseid meteor shower is dated for August 10, between the years of 225 – 258 AD given for the lifetime of this early Christian that was put to death by the Romans. This execution took place on August 10, 258 when a meteor shower was noted and hence the connection. If we account for precession over the same period of 1,753 years, we should see a difference of 24.3 degrees of precession. This should have put the meteor shower on or about July 16th, instead of August the 10th as recorded. The Perseid shower has been noted almost continually year after year from that time to this, except during unusual circumstances of the darkening or the skies post 535 AD and the following dark ages. This one instance and others like it suggest that the precession has some other cause than the solar system.

Official chronology of history

By tradition, St Lawrence was sentenced at San Lorenzo in Miranda, imprisoned in San Lorenzo in Fonte, and martyred at San Lorenzo in Panisperna. The Almanac of Philocalus for the year 354 mentions that he was buried in the Via Tiburtina in the Catacomb of Cyriaca by Hippolytus and Justin the Confessor, a presbyter. One of the early sources for the martyrdom was the description by Aurelius Prudentius Clemens in his Peristephanon, Hymn II.

St Lawrence is one of the most widely venerated saints of the Roman Catholic Church. Legendary details of his death were known to Damasus, Prudentius, Ambrose and Augustine. The church built over his tomb, San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, became one of the seven principal churches in Rome and a favorite place for Roman pilgrimages. Devotion to him was widespread by the fourth century. Since the Perseid Meteor Shower typically occurs every year in mid-August on or near his feast day, some refer to the shower as the "Tears of St Lawrence."

On 10 August, year 258 AD, the execution of St Lawrence was carried out.

His celebration on 10 August has the rank of feast throughout the Catholic world.

http://througheternity.tumblr.com/post/94146358934/night-of-the-shooting-stars-san-lorenzo


The Escorial Palace, at the foot of Mount Abantos in the Sierra de Guadarrama, was built by King Philip II of Spain to commemorate the victory over King Henry II of France at the Battle of St Quentin, which took place on the feast of St Lawrence, 10 August 1557.

"On August 10 1566, the feast-day of Saint Lawrence, at the end of the pilgrimage from Hondschoote to Steenvoorde, the chapel of the Sint-Laurensklooster was defaced by a crowd who invaded the building. It has been suggested that the rioters connected the saint especially with Philip II, whose monastery palace of the Escorial near Madrid was dedicated to Lawrence, and was just nearing completion in 1566"


One of the earliest descriptions of an August meteor display was briefly mentioned in a book written by Pieter van Musschenbroeck in 1762. In volume two of his book, Introduction a la Philosophie naturelle, he noted that after the heat of summer, falling stars are seen during August, at least in Belgium and the cities of Leiden and Utrecht in the Netherlands.

http://www.examiner.com/article/the-perseids-are-coming-1


Citing Quetelet, 'a superstition has 'for ages' existed among the Catholics of some parts of England and Germany that the burning tears of St. Lawrence are seen in the sky on the night of the 10th of August; this day being the anniversary of his martyrdom.'

http://www.qsl.net/w8wn/hscw/prop/perseids.html


He also searched historical sources for evidence that August meteors had been seen in previous years around the same date. He found seven cases, from 1029 in Egypt to 1833 in England.

The earliest discoverers of the Perseids were anonymous, and their feat lay buried in an English farmer's almanac. Both Quetelet and Herrick chanced upon it. Bravely, Herrick acknowledged, "The annual occurrence of a meteoric display about the 10th of August appears to have been recognized for a very great length of time." Thomas Furley Forster of London had recorded it in 1827 in his Pocket Encyclopaedia of Natural Phenomena. "According to Mr. T. Forster," Herrick reported in October 1839, citing Quetelet, "a superstition has 'for ages' existed among the Catholics of some parts of England and Germany that the burning tears of St. Lawrence are seen in the sky on the night of the 10th of August; this day being the anniversary of his martyrdom."

"The peasants of Franconia and Saxony have believed for ages past that St. Lawrence weeps tears of fire which fall from the sky every year on his fete (the 10th of August)," Herrick wrote, quoting a Brussels newspaper.

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/celestial-objects-to-watch/the-discovery-of-the-perseid-meteors/


Sometime around the mid1500’s, after the St. Lawrence feast day had been established as August 10th, people began to call this meteor shower the “Tears of Saint Lawrence”, because right after the feast day the meteor shower would peak for a day or two. Still today the peak of this meteor shower is August 11th and 12th.

But if the Earth does not go around the sun 360 degrees then the Perseid
meteor shower should reflect precession and slip through the calendar 1 day in every 72
years, meaning it should have moved almost six days exactly since the Gregorian
Calendar Reform in 1582.

If we account for precession over the same period of 1,758 (2016 - 258) years, we should see a difference of 24.3 degrees of precession. This should have put the meteor shower on or about July 16th, instead of August the 10th as recorded.


Each and every account of the official chronology of history tells us that the Perseid meteor shower occurred each and every year in the month of August, peaking around August 11th or 12th.

Yet, this fact defies the very definition of the gradual shift in the orientation of Earth's axis of rotation (precession).


You see alphaomega, this is the kind of proofs that the readers are waiting for: they can see most directly that you are trying to bullshit your way in any debate, and that your false beliefs can be debunked immediately.


Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Son of Orospu on August 06, 2017, 06:02:42 AM
Please read the rule about quote trees.  Don't quote everything that has ever been said when people are perfectly capable of reading the same things you are capable of quoting.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: southern hemispherer on August 06, 2017, 07:54:18 AM
sandokhan trying to bore the thread to death like he has done to hundreds of others
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: MicroBeta on August 06, 2017, 12:50:20 PM
sandokhan trying to bore the thread to death like he has done to hundreds of others
I guess he has no answers for posters who present him with evidence.

Mike
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: rabinoz on August 06, 2017, 03:58:30 PM
Why wait?

HERE IS THE PERSEID METEOR SHOWER PARADOX: a most direct contradiction of Newtonian mechanics.

So what? How does that affect or explain the solar eclipse.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: MicroBeta on August 06, 2017, 04:51:58 PM
Why wait?

HERE IS THE PERSEID METEOR SHOWER PARADOX: a most direct contradiction of Newtonian mechanics.

So what? How does that affect or explain the solar eclipse.
It doesn't...not without a bunch of conjecture and assumption.  Otherwise there would be an actual analytical model to show why it contradicts Newtonian mechanics.  Since there isn't, it's all just smoke and mirrors.

Mike
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Mikey T. on August 06, 2017, 05:02:14 PM
Why wait?

HERE IS THE PERSEID METEOR SHOWER PARADOX: a most direct contradiction of Newtonian mechanics.

So what? How does that affect or explain the solar eclipse.
It doesn't...not without a bunch of conjecture and assumption.  Otherwise there would be an actual analytical model to show why it contradicts Newtonian mechanics.  Since there isn't, it's all just smoke and mirrors.

Mike
It is always smoke and mirrors with Sandy.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Alpha2Omega on August 06, 2017, 08:12:31 PM
alphaomega, you are trying for the upteenth time to bullshit your readers.

It's good to know you have a sense of humor, but your attempt at irony is too obvious.

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They can see that you have no valid arguments at all, that you are wasting everybody's time here, again.

And they do not react well at all to being treated like this: you are simply insulting their intelligence.

One thing that's certain is that you don't react well when someone shows you're wrong, and, even worse, explains, in detail, why.

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Your quotes are useless.

They do not address at all the situation I described: a sure sign of cognitive dissonance on your part.

Ah, yes... good ol' "cognitive dissonance". Where would you be without that mostly meaningless and easily abused term at your disposal.

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Here is the situation.

The rate of axial precession is ACCELERATING.

No scientist can explain why.

You think so? You must not read the information source you recommend here:

THE INCREASING RATE OF THE ANNUAL PRECESSION IS A BASIC FACT OF SCIENCE.
...
It is even listed in the wikipedia page on the axial precession subject.

This one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession)? The one that says:

Quote from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession#Values
Simon Newcomb's calculation at the end of the 19th century for general precession (p) in longitude gave a value of 5,025.64 arcseconds per tropical century, and was the generally accepted value until artificial satellites delivered more accurate observations and electronic computers allowed more elaborate models to be calculated. Lieske developed an updated theory in 1976, where p equals 5,029.0966 arcseconds per Julian century. Modern techniques such as VLBI and LLR allowed further refinements, and the International Astronomical Union adopted a new constant value in 2000, and new computation methods and polynomial expressions in 2003 and 2006; the accumulated precession is:

pA = 5,028.796195×T + 1.1054348×T2 + higher order terms,
in arcseconds, with T, the time in Julian centuries (that is, 36,525 days) since the epoch of 2000.

The rate of precession is the derivative of that:

p = 5,028.796195 + 2.2108696×T + higher order terms.
The constant term of this speed (5,028.796195 arcseconds per century in above equation) corresponds to one full precession circle in 25,771.57534 years (one full circle of 360 degrees divided with 5,028.796195 arcseconds per century)[24] although some other sources put the value at 25771.4 years, leaving a small uncertainty.

The precession rate is not a constant, but is (at the moment) slowly increasing over time, as indicated by the linear (and higher order) terms in T. In any case it must be stressed that this formula is only valid over a limited time period. It is clear that if T gets large enough (far in the future or far in the past), the T2 term will dominate and p will go to very large values. In reality, more elaborate calculations on the numerical model of the Solar System show that the precessional constants have a period of about 41,000 years, the same as the obliquity of the ecliptic. Note that the constants mentioned here are the linear and all higher terms of the formula above, not the precession itself. That is,

p = A + BT + CT2 + …
is an approximation of

p = a + b sin (2πT/P), where P is the 410-century period.
Theoretical models may calculate the proper constants (coefficients) corresponding to the higher powers of T, but since it is impossible for a (finite) polynomial to match a periodic function over all numbers, the error in all such approximations will grow without bound as T increases. In that respect, the International Astronomical Union chose the best-developed available theory. For up to a few centuries in the past and the future, all formulas do not diverge very much. For up to a few thousand years in the past and the future, most agree to some accuracy.

Note the highlighted phrase "more elaborate calculations on the numerical model of the Solar System show that the precessional constants have a period of about 41,000 years". Whatever does "the numerical model of the Solar System" mean? Maybe that scientists know what's going on to a high enough precision to make reasonably accurate predictions for thousands of years, even if not perfectly enough for all time?

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You cannot bring in the influence of other planets, as their contribution is infinitesimal

Why not? Because you say so? Nope. It doesn't work that way.

Fortunately, the universe doesn't care what you think. Because you're a blowhard that doesn't know what he's talking about, scientists don't either.

Remember, from your reference:

Quote from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession#Values
The precession of the equinoxes is caused by the gravitational forces of the Sun and the Moon, and to a lesser extent other bodies, on the Earth. It was first explained by Sir Isaac Newton.

"Lesser extent" is not the same as "infinitesimal", even if you want it to be.

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in fact it would have constituted the first line of attack by astrophysicists in order to explain the acceleration of the precession; they, unlike you, know that they cannot bring such a silly argument to the table.

ONLY the gravitational effect from the Sun and from the Moon matters.

Nope. See above. You're talking about a small, but non-negligible, effect. The planets, etc. are a small, but non-negligible, effect.

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Here are the facts.

Simon Newcomb included a “constant” in his precession formula to get it to match the increasing rate of precession that was observed leading up to his era.

The “constant” amount was .000222 arc seconds per year.

In 1900 the precession rate was 50.2564 (USNO).

In 2000 the precession rate was 50.290966 (AA).

This shows us the precession rate has increased over the past 100 years by .0346 for an average of .000346” per/year. Comparing this to Newcomb’s 0.000222” figure,  we can see the actual rate of change has not simply increased at a “constant” rate – it has increased at an “exponential” rate.

Or, the newer techniques produce better accuracy. From the information you're working from, you really can't say whether the rate is increasing, or the base measurement is simply more accurate, or a combination.

Let's see, just taking the numbers at face value... 0.000222"/year for 100 years is 0.0222"

Newcomb, 1900 yearly rate: 50.2564" + 0.000222"/year. Predicted value for 2000: 50.2564" + 0.0222" = 50.2786"

2000 measured yearly rate: 50.290966"

The 100-year forward prediction of a varying and difficult to measure value from 1900 differs from the year 2000 measured value by about 0.02%. Don't forget, the 2000-era measurement used a different, more accurate, technique. I'd say Bravo! to those 1900 guys.

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The mass of the Sun/Moon/planets has not increased (we all know that the mass of the Sun is actually constantly decreasing).

The orbital distances are the same (and the Moon is constantly receding from the Earth).

Precession has nothing to do with the law of attractive gravitation.

You never refuted it, either. Can you show, with actual data, not anecdotes, that it's incorrect?

But I did in very certain terms.

Really? Why didn't you provide a way to see this "certain refutation" instead of just claiming it? Is it because it doesn't really exist and you know it?

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It seems you are back to your old shenanigans, where a most direct proof has to be run by you once, twice, thrice, four times, maybe even five times before you get the point.

There is no point. You seem to believe that repeating some baloney twice, thrice, four times, maybe even five times (or more?) will somehow make it true. It won't.

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The orbit of Sirius represents one of the greatest mysteries in modern astronomy.

Read the facts which are not taken into consideration neither by the folks over at the Stellarium, nor by yourself.

It sounds like you are saying I can't take the coordinates that Stellarium reports as the location of Sirius for a particular time, and use them to accurately point a telescope at Sirius at that time. That's easy enough to check. I'll do that next winter, when Sirius is up in the evenings. Feel free to remind me to do this in case I forget.

You didn't answer this.

Instead of carrying on about this by citing out of context quotes and questionable references, why don't you actually go out in the real world and check to see if your argument has any merit?

Can you show that Sirius is not at RA 06h 46m, Dec −16° 44′ now? Do you have any hard evidence that Sirius was not at RA 06h 43m, Dec −16° 39' in 1950? That's a difference of 3 minutes of Right Ascension, almost three-quarters of a degree. A change in position that large is easily detected in many currently-available amateur telescopes, and has been in professional telescopes for much more than a century. A change in position with respect to other stars in the vicinity could be detected by even the most basic instruments for centuries.

I wonder why you didn't answer? [Not really... we all know perfectly well why you didn't answer. It would show you're wrong! Which, of course, you can never do because the carefully crafted but fragile facade would crumble.]

Instead, we get anecdotes like this:

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In order to account for the unusual motion of Sirius, which is minimal relative to the Summer solstice and exceptionally high with respect to the stars of the Zodiac... which partly compensated the effects of precession under the Dynastic Period.  ...
Now we know that the proper motion of Sirius (i.e. of the Sirius system) over a period of some 5400 years is less than 2°:

Aha! some hard numbers.

Proper motion of less than 2° over 5400 years.

2° / 5400 yr = 0.00037°/yr

0.00037°/yr * 3600 arcsec/deg = 1.332 arcsec/yr

This is very close to the recently measured value for the proper motion of Sirius of 1330 milliarcsec/yr.

50 yr * 1.330 arcsec/yr = 66.5 arcsec, or about 1.1 minute of arc.

1.1 minute of arc / 60'/degree = 0.018°

Using the modern value, in 50 years, Sirius proper motion has caused it to move about 0.018°, while its celestial coordinates changed by more than 0.5°, mostly because of precession.

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"For a long time astronomers had been noticing anomalies in Sirius' proper motion; this motion, well known since Halley's time is equal to 0.0375" in RA (Right Ascension) and to 1.207" in D, (Declination), which gives a yearly resultant motion of 1.32" in the direction of 204°, which is noticeably to the south. In 1834, Bessel showed that the anomalies consisted mainly of deviations between the star's theoretical position and its actual position; these distinctly periodic differences, especially in right ascension, may be as great as 0.321", which is a considerable amount with regard to meridian observations. Overall, instead of moving through space in a straight line, Sirius appears to display a wavy trajectory."

Dr. P. Blaize, Le Compagnon de Sirius, Bull. de la Société astronomique de France (1931)

Could this "wavy trajectory" be caused by some conventional phenomenon, like, say, a Sirius was a binary star system, but was so bright that its companion was hard to see?

Why, what. A. Surprise!!
Quote from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius#Discovery_of_a_companion
In 1844, the German astronomer Friedrich Bessel deduced from changes in the proper motion of Sirius that it had an unseen companion. On January 31, 1862, American telescope-maker and astronomer Alvan Graham Clark first observed the faint companion, which is now called Sirius B, or affectionately "the Pup".

As an interesting but largely irrelevant side note, the Clark telescope that first detected the companion of Sirius, an 18.5" aperture refractor, the largest in the world at the time, was initially commissioned by the University of Mississippi but when the American Civil War broke out before it was finished, it could not be delivered to Mississippi (in the South) from Massachusetts (in the North) and was sold to a benefactor who founded the Dearborn Observatory for the University of Chicago, in Michigan, USA (in the North) instead.

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Listen to the experts in the field.

<more anecdotes>

HOW or WHY does Sirius keep up so precisely with the exponentially increasing rate of precession?

How can Sirius' proper motion stay synched up so precisely with precession, when the rate of precession itself is changing?

If any local force here in "heliocentrical" solar system drove up the rate of precession, it would NOT also drive up the proper motion of Sirius across the sky.

Same as before (https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=71409.msg1938635#msg1938635). Sirius' proper motion isn't remotely synched up with precession. Even if you want to claim it is for three, four, five, or more times.

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Next time we meet you are going to have to explain the Perseid meteor shower paradox: a most direct contradiction of your whimsical beliefs.

Oh, great... another "paradox"[nb]"Paradox" is sandokahn's description of "something I don't understand".[/nb]. And the classic sandokhan tactic "change the topic because I'm losing the argument" begins. Any over/under bets on how long before Tunguska shows up?

Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: sandokhan on August 06, 2017, 10:10:49 PM
Your tricks don't work with me, or with the readers.

The wikipedia page you are quoting was written by amateurs (such as yourself), who are not experts in the field.

That is why they mention a hypothetical periodicity of some 41,000 years without having knowledge of the actual orbital equations.

Let us see what the actual experts in the field have to say on the subject.

Dr. W.M. Smart

Regius Professor of Astronomy at Glasgow University
President of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1949 to 1951


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The calculations for the stability of the Earth supposed heliocentrical orbit (including eccentricity, precession and much more) ARE NOT VALID AFTER A PERIOD OF 300 YEARS.


Moreover, the 41,000 supposed periodicity mentioned in the vickypedia article cannot be true, since the Milankovitch cycle is not true either, and RELIES ON THE SAME FIGURE OF 41,000 YEARS.


Here are the precise facts detailing the proof that the Earth has very recently undergone a massive pole shift, contradicting the whimsical calculations for the periodicity of 41,000 years, based on armchair deductions, totally detached from reality:

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1936055#msg1936055 (extinction of the mammoth, a most precise proof)

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1938384#msg1938384 (proofs from botany and zoology)

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1938393#msg1938393 (proofs from geography of the plants)

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1938396#msg1938396 (more proofs coming from zoology)


Your quotes amount to nothing at all, just as I have said from the very start.


One cannot bring the influence of the planets into the acceleration of the rate of precession, since the distances have not changed, and the mass of Jupiter, as an example, has decreased (and not increased) over time.

http://www.sciencefocus.com/article/space/jupiter%E2%80%99s-gravity-pulls-so-much-matter-planet-growing

The mass of Jupiter is DECREASING.

Now, you have more trouble on your hands.

Not only you have to explain the acceleration of the rate of precession, but also you'd have to account for these facts:

1. Solar mass is decreasing

2. Lunar distance from Earth is actually receding

3. Jupiter's mass is decreasing


Now, let us go back to the precise calculations.

Simon Newcomb included a “constant” in his precession formula to get it to match the increasing rate of precession that was observed leading up to his era.

The “constant” amount was .000222 arc seconds per year.

In 1900 the precession rate was 50.2564 (USNO).

In 2000 the precession rate was 50.290966 (AA).

This shows us the precession rate has increased over the past 100 years by .0346 for an average of .000346” per/year. Comparing this to Newcomb’s 0.000222” figure,  we can see the actual rate of change has not simply increased at a “constant” rate – it has increased at an “exponential” rate.


The mass of the Sun/Moon/planets has not increased (we all know that the mass of the Sun is actually constantly decreasing).

The orbital distances are the same (and the Moon is constantly receding from the Earth).

Precession has nothing to do with the law of attractive gravitation.


The experts tell us then that Sirius remains at the SAME DISTANCE from the solstices throughout history:

Dr. Jad Buchwald (Caltech):

Sirius remains about the same distance from the equinoxes—and so from the solstices— throughout these many centuries, despite precession.

".... despite precession, Sirius and the solstice must remain about the same distance in time from one another during most of Egyptian history."


HOW or WHY does Sirius keep up so precisely with the exponentially increasing rate of precession?

How can Sirius' proper motion stay synched up so precisely with precession, when the rate of precession itself is changing?


If any local force here in "heliocentrical" solar system drove up the rate of precession, it would NOT also drive up the proper motion of Sirius across the sky.


The star Sirius knows precisely how to account for Newcomb's constant, and not only that, it knows that this constant has actually increased its value.

This could only be possible if the distance Sun-Sirius is measured in mere kilometers, as the common etheric field encompassing these stars would be able move both stars in a precise manner, to account for the exponential rate of the acceleration of precession.


Using the modern value, in 50 years, Sirius proper motion has caused it to move about 0.018°, while its celestial coordinates changed by more than 0.5°, mostly because of precession.

You still don't get it.

Dr. Karine Gadre is the world's foremost expert on the motion of Sirius. Dr. Gadre's PhD dissertation on this subject amounts to some 300+ pages.


Please read carefully:

In order to account for the unusual motion of Sirius, which is minimal relative to the Summer solstice and exceptionally high with respect to the stars of the Zodiac, Karine Gadré,  the Associate Researcher at the Department of Astrophysics of the MidiPyrenees Observatory in Toulouse, France offers the following explanation:

“The low change in the celestial coordinates of Sirius comes from its high proper movement, which partly compensated the effects of precession under the Dynastic Period. […] In order to better understand how the proper movement of Sirius can partly compensate the effects of precession, do not only take into account the numerical values of the speed vector. Take also into account the position of Sirius on the celestial vault at a given instant and the direction of the speed vector.”


Do you understand basic English?


There is a most unusual motion of Sirius, which is minimal relative to the Summer solstice and exceptionally high with respect to the stars of the Zodiac.

That is why at each and every solstice its distance is minimal throughout the centuries, while exceptionally high with respect to the stars of the Zodiac.

An orbit in the shape of a huge waveform, which defies modern astronomy.


Thus its proper motion is synched up with the precession, and there are great anomalies in this proper motion, unaccounted for by modern astronomy.

Listen to the experts in the field.


“The low change in the celestial coordinates of Sirius comes from its high proper movement, which partly compensated the effects of precession under the Dynastic Period. […] In order to better understand how the proper movement of Sirius can partly compensate the effects of precession, do not only take into account the numerical values of the speed vector. Take also into account the position of Sirius on the celestial vault at a given instant and the direction of the speed vector.”

"For a long time astronomers had been noticing anomalies in Sirius' proper motion; this motion, well known since Halley's time is equal to 0.0375" in RA (Right Ascension) and to 1.207" in D, (Declination), which gives a yearly resultant motion of 1.32" in the direction of 204°, which is noticeably to the south. In 1834, Bessel showed that the anomalies consisted mainly of deviations between the star's theoretical position and its actual position; these distinctly periodic differences, especially in right ascension, may be as great as 0.321", which is a considerable amount with regard to meridian observations. Overall, instead of moving through space in a straight line, Sirius appears to display a wavy trajectory."

Dr. P. Blaize, Le Compagnon de Sirius, Bull. de la Société astronomique de France (1931)


Your constant bullshitting cannot change the facts.


The fact that Sirius seems to maintain its position relative to the position of the sun was a surprise to most scientists (aware of precession), when it was first noticed by the French scientific community following the Egyptian discoveries of Napoleon (and the Dendera Zodiac) in the early 1800’s. Perhaps to save the lunisolar theory of precession, or at least to make sense of physics as then taught, physicist, astronomer, mathematician Jean-Baptiste Biot (21 April 1774 – 3 February 1862) proclaimed that this phenomenon was an oddity of the latitude and horizon around Dendera, meaning it just seemed as if Sirius was immune to the effects of precession. And to this day this is the assumption of many astronomers and astrophysicists.   Physicist Jed Z. Buchwald, professor of history and science and technology (Caltech and MIT) commented on this topic in his article Egyptian Stars Under Paris Skies, when he noted:

"The rising of Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens and important to Egyptians as the signal for the annual flooding of the Nile, was assumed by the French physicists to move with relation to the sun as do the constellations of the zodiac. It does not, however, as we see here."

(http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/Explanation%20of%20Heliacal%20Rising%20of%20Sirius%20by%20Physicist%20Jed%20Z.%20Buchwald.jpg)

The curved line dividing the lit from the dark regions represents the horizon near Dendera. The blue lines show the locations of the ecliptic with respect to the horizon at five helical risings separated by hundreds of years. The vernal points mark the equinoxes at these times, and the circled numbers on the lower right indicate the corresponding positions of Sirius. Sirius remains about the same distance from the equinoxes—and so from the solstices— throughout these many centuries, despite precession.


HOW DOES SIRIUS KNOW HOW TO ACCOUNT FOR NEWCOMB'S CONSTANT?

HOW CAN SIRIUS CALCULATE IN ADVANCE THE EXPONENTIAL INCREASE IN THE ACCELERATION OF THE RATE OF PRECESSION, IF ITS DISTANCE FROM THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS SOME 81 TRILLION KILOMETERS?

It is recognized that from the beginning of the empire and during the entire dynastic period the rising of Sirius with the Sun always occurred around the time of the Summer solstice.

The implication of this astronomical fact is best explained by Jed Z. Buchwald, a distinguished Professor of History and Science, in his paper “Egyptian Stars under Paris Skies” (Caltech, Engineering & Science No. 4, 2003), where he discusses the meaning of the Zodiac that has been engraved in the ceiling of the temple of Dendera in Egypt:

“The solstice is, after all, extraordinarily hard to pin-point by observation, and in any case it was known from Greek texts that the Egyptians were particularly concerned with the heliacal rising of the brightest star in the sky, Sirius—that is, with the night when Sirius first appears, just before dawn. In Egyptian prehistory this event certainly preceded the annual flooding of the Nile, which was of obvious agricultural importance. Would not precession have moved Sirius along with the zodiacal stars, eventually decoupling its heliacal rising from the solstice, and so from the annual inundation? We know today that the inundation occurs after the June beginning of the rainy season in Ethiopia, where the Blue Nile rises. And yet Sirius’ heliacal rising remained a central marker of the year throughout Egyptian history.” (p 25)

".... despite precession, Sirius and the solstice must remain about the same distance in time from one another during most of Egyptian history. Indeed they do, though it’s doubtful that Burckhardt and Coraboeuf had thought it through. Because of Sirius’ position, and the latitudes at which the Egyptians observed the sky, both Sirius’ heliacal rising and the summer solstice remained nearly the same number of days apart throughout Egyptian history even though the zodiac moves slowly around the ecliptic." (pp 29)

Buchwald, who produced a revealing diagram on the ‘Heliacal Risings of Sirius’ in relation to the vernal points (for the period of 2900 BCE to 2941 CE at intervals of 1460 years) using TheSky software, makes it very clear that "Sirius remains about the same distance from the equinoxes - and so from the solstices - throughout these many centuries, despite precession".


According to the current theory of lunisolar precession the pole, and therefore the equator of the Earth is supposed to “wobble” over a period of roughly 25800 years relative to the position of the fixed stars and the Sun. In other words, if we were to imagine the Earth ‘fixed’ in its revolution around the Sun at the time when Sirius is in conjunction with the Sun (e.g. during the Summer solstice), an observer would not only notice changes in the declination of Sirius and the other stars, but simultaneously equal changes in the declination of the Sun. In practice, however, Sirius does not show any significant variations in its position relative to the Summer solstice.


Do you understand English?

In practice, however, Sirius does not show any significant variations in its position relative to the Summer solstice.

HOW DOES SIRIUS KNOW HOW TO ACCOUNT FOR NEWCOMB'S CONSTANT?

HOW CAN SIRIUS CALCULATE IN ADVANCE THE EXPONENTIAL INCREASE IN THE ACCELERATION OF THE RATE OF PRECESSION, IF ITS DISTANCE FROM THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS SOME 81 TRILLION KILOMETERS?

The Perseid meter shower DEFIES your whimsical beliefs:

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=71409.msg1938768#msg1938768

The official chronology of history tells us that the Perseid meteor shower has occurred on the same date, each year, at least for the past 2000 years.

But that could not be true in the heliocentrical context: due to the axial precession of the Earth, there should have been a SIX DAY DIFFERENCE, as compared to what is recorded today, in the occurrence of the Perseid meteor shower during the Renaissance.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: rabinoz on August 06, 2017, 10:34:38 PM
Your tricks don't work with me, or with the readers.

Your tricks don't work with me, or with the other readers.

Have you forgotten how to read? The topic happens to be "Solar eclipse".

While you are here though,
would you please show your reasoning behind claiming that the sun is only about 12 miles from earth!
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: sandokhan on August 07, 2017, 12:59:01 AM
More proofs that the unusual motion of Sirius is MINIMAL relative to the summer solstice:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2000JHA....31..149S

The heliacal rise of Sirius and ancient Egyptian chronology

Published in the Journal for the History of Astronomy, Vol. 31, Part 2, p. 149 - 155

(https://s2.postimg.org/4ty7sfmw9/sothic.jpg)


This totally agrees with the bibiographical reference I provided earlier:

(https://s1.postimg.org/7jj1vyblr/sothic.jpg)

An Egypto-Julian calendar reveals that New Year Day (beginnings of Sothic Cycles) of the Egyptian calendar synchronized with the following tetraeterises:

Heliopolis, Egypt:
4225 BC July 15
2767 BC July 16
1311 BC July 17
145 AD July 18


This proves that Sirius is not precessing like other stars, since in this 4,370 years time period, the calendar dates have only changed by 3 calendar days!

Moreover, the heliacal rising of Sirius appears to keep up with the calendar.

This heliacal rise of Sirius also appears to be a fixed date according to the Julian calendar for over 4,000 years.


HOW or WHY does Sirius keep up so precisely with the exponentially increasing rate of precession?

How can Sirius' proper motion stay synched up so precisely with precession, when the rate of precession itself is changing?


If any local force here in "heliocentrical" solar system drove up the rate of precession, it would NOT also drive up the proper motion of Sirius across the sky.

Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: MicroBeta on August 07, 2017, 02:10:30 AM
More proofs that the unusual motion of Sirius is MINIMAL relative to the summer solstice:
<snip>
I'm sorry.  I must be missing something.  What does this prove/disprove about solar eclipses?

Mike
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: sandokhan on August 07, 2017, 03:06:17 AM
You have been warned (reply #71) not to use the quote trees unnecessarily.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: MicroBeta on August 07, 2017, 03:26:05 AM
You have been warned (reply #71) not to use the quote trees unnecessarily.
I was just trying to understand how that post fits into the subject of a solar eclipse.  I was quoting a single post by you, not a tree.  I guess I could have reduced the size.

But, I will ask again.  How that post fits into the subject of a solar eclipse?

Mike
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: sandokhan on August 07, 2017, 03:29:33 AM
More bad news for the RE.

http://www.saturndaily.com/reports/Saturns_bulging_core_implies_moons_younger_than_thought_999.html

“The moons are migrating away much faster than expected.”

The team also found that Saturn moon Rhea is moving away 10 times faster than the other moons.

Not even Saturn can come to the rescue.


One cannot bring the influence of the planets into the acceleration of the rate of precession, since the distances have not changed, and the mass of Jupiter, as an example, has decreased (and not increased) over time.

http://www.sciencefocus.com/article/space/jupiter%E2%80%99s-gravity-pulls-so-much-matter-planet-growing

The mass of Jupiter is DECREASING.

Now, you have more trouble on your hands.

Not only you have to explain the acceleration of the rate of precession, but also you'd have to account for these facts:

1. Solar mass is decreasing

2. Lunar distance from Earth is actually receding

3. Jupiter's mass is decreasing

4. Saturn's moons are receding at an increasing rate

Now, let us go back to the precise calculations.

Simon Newcomb included a “constant” in his precession formula to get it to match the increasing rate of precession that was observed leading up to his era.

The “constant” amount was .000222 arc seconds per year.

In 1900 the precession rate was 50.2564 (USNO).

In 2000 the precession rate was 50.290966 (AA).

This shows us the precession rate has increased over the past 100 years by .0346 for an average of .000346” per/year. Comparing this to Newcomb’s 0.000222” figure,  we can see the actual rate of change has not simply increased at a “constant” rate – it has increased at an “exponential” rate.


The mass of the Sun/Moon/planets has not increased (we all know that the mass of the Sun is actually constantly decreasing).

The orbital distances are the same (and the Moon is constantly receding from the Earth).

Precession has nothing to do with the law of attractive gravitation.


Now, not only do the RE have to offset these slight diminishments in gravitational forces, but also to come up with larger effects in the opposite direction.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: rabinoz on August 07, 2017, 04:14:22 AM
More bad news for the RE.
Irrelevant!

The topic is Re: Solar eclipse... I guess you must have lost the ability to read.

If you want to present your radical rubbish rhubarb theory, run off and make your own thread in Complete Nonsense.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Sentinel on August 07, 2017, 08:29:51 AM
A Sun at 12 miles height... Is he even sirius?  :-\
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: FEskeptic on August 07, 2017, 10:07:17 AM
How many other people completely skip over sandokhans posts. I see his name and immediately scroll till I see another post. His posts are incoherent babble. For someone who thinks they've completely debunked modern physics, why hasn't he published it in a scientific journal? Is it because he knows that any physicist worth a damn would instantly know he's a damn moron? I think so!
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Alpha2Omega on August 07, 2017, 01:23:55 PM
Your tricks don't work with me, or with the readers.

The wikipedia page you are quoting was written by amateurs (such as yourself), who are not experts in the field.

** Ahem **
THE INCREASING RATE OF THE ANNUAL PRECESSION IS A BASIC FACT OF SCIENCE.
...
It is even listed in the wikipedia page on the axial precession subject.

So after it's been shown to disagree with your notions, it's not to be believed? Maybe you should have read the article before suggesting it as a reference.

Who were the authors? Do you know all of them and their credentials?

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That is why they mention a hypothetical periodicity of some 41,000 years without having knowledge of the actual orbital equations.

Well, no. The 410-century period was determined from the data. The orbital equations are expressed in the numerical model of the Solar System.

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Let us see what the actual experts in the field have to say on the subject.

Dr. W.M. Smart

Regius Professor of Astronomy at Glasgow University
President of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1949 to 1951

https://s1.postimg.org/p2bdexbpb/bass4.jpg (https://s1.postimg.org/p2bdexbpb/bass4.jpg)
https://s3.postimg.org/w68z5enqb/bass5.jpg (https://s3.postimg.org/w68z5enqb/bass5.jpg)
https://s17.postimg.org/sgi0la43z/bass6.jpg (https://s17.postimg.org/sgi0la43z/bass6.jpg)
https://s17.postimg.org/jyk3erf67/bass7.jpg (https://s17.postimg.org/jyk3erf67/bass7.jpg)

The calculations for the stability of the Earth supposed heliocentrical orbit (including eccentricity, precession and much more) ARE NOT VALID AFTER A PERIOD OF 300 YEARS.

That might have been true in 1953. We have better data now.

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Moreover, the 41,000 supposed periodicity mentioned in the vickypedia article cannot be true, since the Milankovitch cycle is not true either, and RELIES ON THE SAME FIGURE OF 41,000 YEARS.


Here are the precise facts detailing the proof that the Earth has very recently undergone a massive pole shift, contradicting the whimsical calculations for the periodicity of 41,000 years, based on armchair deductions, totally detached from reality:

<self references>

Not only are those tomes not peer reviewed, they can't even be commented on except by people deemed by management to be "true believers" that the earth is flat.

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Your quotes amount to nothing at all, just as I have said from the very start.

Just because you say something doesn't make it true. Even if you repeat it many times.

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One cannot bring the influence of the planets into the acceleration of the rate of precession, since the distances have not changed, and the mass of Jupiter, as an example, has decreased (and not increased) over time.

Because it is decreed by the great and powerful sandokhan? We need a more substantive reason than that.

Sorry, but the mass of the planets does affect (perturb is the technical term) other solar-system bodies.

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http://www.sciencefocus.com/article/space/jupiter%E2%80%99s-gravity-pulls-so-much-matter-planet-growing

The mass of Jupiter is DECREASING.

So? How fast?

You cannot bring in the influence of other planets, as their contribution is infinitesimal, in fact it would have constituted the first line of attack by astrophysicists in order to explain the acceleration of the precession; they, unlike you, know that they cannot bring such a silly argument to the table.

ONLY the gravitational effect from the Sun and from the Moon matters.

Are you now retreating from this position? First you insist that the mass of Jupiter is irrelevant. Now you seem to think that it is not only relevant, but the fact that's it's changing (by a little? A lot?) is important.

So, which is it?

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Now, you have more trouble on your hands.

Not only you have to explain the acceleration of the rate of precession, but also you'd have to account for these facts:

1. Solar mass is decreasing

2. Lunar distance from Earth is actually receding

3. Jupiter's mass is decreasing

Quote from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession#Values
In reality, more elaborate calculations on the numerical model of the Solar System show that the precessional constants have a period of about 41,000 years, the same as the obliquity of the ecliptic.

Remember, you were the one who recommended that article.

Can you show that the facts you list aren't in the referenced numerical model of the Solar System?

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Now, let us go back to the precise calculations.

Simon Newcomb included a “constant”... <same ol' same ol' repeated yet again>

HOW or WHY does Sirius keep up so precisely with the exponentially increasing rate of precession?

How can Sirius' proper motion stay synched up so precisely with precession, when the rate of precession itself is changing?

If any local force here in "heliocentrical" solar system drove up the rate of precession, it would NOT also drive up the proper motion of Sirius across the sky.

The star Sirius knows precisely how to account for Newcomb's constant, and not only that, it knows that this constant has actually increased its value.

This could only be possible if the distance Sun-Sirius is measured in mere kilometers, as the common etheric field encompassing these stars would be able move both stars in a precise manner, to account for the exponential rate of the acceleration of precession.

Using the modern value, in 50 years, Sirius proper motion has caused it to move about 0.018°, while its celestial coordinates changed by more than 0.5°, mostly because of precession.

You still don't get it.

I've understood all along that you're wrong and explained how I know you're wrong. Repeating stuff over and over doesn't change that.

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Dr. Karine Gadre is the world's foremost expert on the motion of Sirius. Dr. Gadre's PhD dissertation on this subject amounts to some 300+ pages.

Please read carefully:

...

“The low change in the celestial coordinates of Sirius comes from its high proper movement, which partly compensated the effects of precession under the Dynastic Period. […] In order to better understand how the proper movement of Sirius can partly compensate the effects of precession, do not only take into account the numerical values of the speed vector. Take also into account the position of Sirius on the celestial vault at a given instant and the direction of the speed vector.”

Do you understand basic English?

Yes. Do you have any actual data that backs up the narratives you copy and paste?

Speaking of the celestial coordinates of Sirius, were they the same in 1950 as in 2000? Were they the same in 1950 as now?

Yes or no?

According to a well-used mid-century star catalog, Sirius was at RA 06h 42.9m, Dec −16° 39' at the beginning of 1950, and J2000 star catalogs place Sirius at RA 06h 45m 08.91728s, Dec −16° 42′ 58.0171″ (06h 45.1m, −16° 43′ to the same precision as the 1950 value).  [See near the bottom of this post (https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=71409.msg1938569#msg1938569) for source.] It has moved south and east by 0.5425° (according to this calculator (http://cads.iiap.res.in/tools/angularSeparation)).

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There is a most unusual motion of Sirius, which is minimal relative to the Summer solstice and exceptionally high with respect to the stars of the Zodiac.

That is why at each and every solstice its distance is minimal throughout the centuries, while exceptionally high with respect to the stars of the Zodiac.

"Low change", blah, blah, "partly compensate", yada, yada yada, "minimal", "exceptionally high", bork, bork, bork, ...

Reliable hard data, please. Not snippets of text with no context.

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An orbit in the shape of a huge waveform, which defies modern astronomy.

Thus its proper motion is synched up with the precession, and there are great anomalies in this proper motion, unaccounted for by modern astronomy.

Listen to the experts in the field.

<repeated pasted text from a few lines ago>


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"For a long time astronomers had been noticing anomalies in Sirius' proper motion; this motion, well known since Halley's time is equal to 0.0375" in RA (Right Ascension) and to 1.207" in D, (Declination), which gives a yearly resultant motion of 1.32" in the direction of 204°, which is noticeably to the south. In 1834, Bessel showed that the anomalies consisted mainly of deviations between the star's theoretical position and its actual position; these distinctly periodic differences, especially in right ascension, may be as great as 0.321", which is a considerable amount with regard to meridian observations. Overall, instead of moving through space in a straight line, Sirius appears to display a wavy trajectory."

Dr. P. Blaize, Le Compagnon de Sirius, Bull. de la Société astronomique de France (1931)

Sirius is a binary star, explaining the "wavy" trajectory, as already discussed. In fact, that paper is about Sirius having a companion star. Why bring it up again?

It does contain some numbers, though, so let's see... 1.32" per year proper motion for 50 years is 66" of arc, which is 1.1' of arc, or 0.018°. By Jove, that's almost exactly the same answer I got earlier (https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=71409.msg1939166#msg1939166) using a different source for the value of pm! That's only 3% of its motion relative to the celestial sphere, nowhere near enough proper motion to nullify precession; remember, the combination of both produced a total of 0.5425° in the 50 years between 1950 and 2000[nb]There is also nutation, but nutation causes  less than 10 arc seconds of shift, and is periodic, so it doesn't accumulate over the period, so it's neglected here.[/nb].
 
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Your constant bullshitting cannot change the facts.

:D Love the irony, even if it is clumsy.

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<repeated story about the ancient Egyptians>

HOW DOES SIRIUS KNOW HOW TO ACCOUNT FOR NEWCOMB'S CONSTANT?

That's easy... it doesn't. It doesn't know who Simon Newcomb is, or, for that matter, who Dr. Karine Gadre is, either.

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HOW CAN SIRIUS CALCULATE IN ADVANCE THE EXPONENTIAL INCREASE IN THE ACCELERATION OF THE RATE OF PRECESSION, IF ITS DISTANCE FROM THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS SOME 81 TRILLION KILOMETERS?

Wanna take a wild guess? [Spoiler: it's the same as the previous answer!]

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<copy-paste *again* of narrative about ancient Egypt>

According to the current theory of lunisolar precession the pole, and therefore the equator of the Earth is supposed to “wobble” over a period of roughly 25800 years relative to the position of the fixed stars and the Sun. In other words, if we were to imagine the Earth ‘fixed’ in its revolution around the Sun at the time when Sirius is in conjunction with the Sun (e.g. during the Summer solstice), an observer would not only notice changes in the declination of Sirius and the other stars, but simultaneously equal changes in the declination of the Sun. In practice, however, Sirius does not show any significant variations in its position relative to the Summer solstice.

Do you understand English?

Yep. Same as earlier in this same post. Do you have any actual DATA for us to look at yet?

I doubt you'll find any, but we'll see.

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In practice, however, Sirius does not show any significant variations in its position relative to the Summer solstice.

Wow! Big, bold, red text! Did you know that even fancy formatting doesn't make BS true? It is amusing to watch your reaction to being challenged with verifiable facts, though.

Is variation of more than half a degree in 50 years significant? I think it is. If astronomers had misplaced Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, by half a degree 50 years ago (or it was right then, but half a degree off now?), then they certainly would have noticed, and loudly squawked, don't you think? Did Dr. Karine Gadre, "the world's foremost expert on the motion of Sirius" complain about star catalog entries misplacing Sirius by a good fraction of a degree anywhere in his 300+ page dissertation? Did Dr. Gadre's remark about it being good thing Sirius was so bright .

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HOW DOES SIRIUS KNOW HOW TO ACCOUNT FOR NEWCOMB'S CONSTANT?

HOW CAN SIRIUS CALCULATE IN ADVANCE THE EXPONENTIAL INCREASE IN THE ACCELERATION OF THE RATE OF PRECESSION, IF ITS DISTANCE FROM THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS SOME 81 TRILLION KILOMETERS?

Dude... just scroll up a little bit. The answers haven't changed.

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The Perseid meter shower DEFIES your whimsical beliefs:

Nope, nope, nope! No change of subject until you either show some reliable data demonstrating unequivocally that Sirius is immune to precession, or give up your silly argument that it is. Long-winded treatises about ancient Egyptians aren't reliable for this. Actual published astronomical records that have been validated by extensive use are reliable.

Nice try at deflecting the conversation away from your hopelessly wrong hypothesis, though.

If you want to discuss the Persieds, how about starting a new thread for it? At least precession of the equinoxes is a little bit relevant to this thread, which is about the upcoming total solar eclipse and predictions thereof.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: sandokhan on August 07, 2017, 02:29:49 PM
alphaomega, you should apply for disability, due to basic ignorance of scientific facts.

The periodic infinite series discovered by Newcomb is STILL IN USE TODAY, for your information.

In fact KAM theory (Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser) grew out of the research done on those infinite series.

The comment made by Professor W. Smart is still valid today, and will always be so.

This shows your basic ignorance of the history of the orbital equations of motion.

Dr. Robert Bass, one of the top astrophysicists of the 20th century, reminding your of your ignorance on the subject:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120916174745/http://www.innoventek.com:80/Bass1974PenseeAllegedProofsOfStabilityOfSolarSystemR.pdf

Go ahead, and write to your local university, informing them that Professor Smart's comment on the Newcomb infinite series is no longer valid, or in use, and they will laugh in your face.

Those equations are fully valid even today, for your information.

As such, Professor Smart's calculation is valid as well.


More bad news for the RE.

http://www.saturndaily.com/reports/Saturns_bulging_core_implies_moons_younger_than_thought_999.html

“The moons are migrating away much faster than expected.”

The team also found that Saturn moon Rhea is moving away 10 times faster than the other moons.

Not even Saturn can come to the rescue.


One cannot bring the influence of the planets into the acceleration of the rate of precession, since the distances have not changed, and the mass of Jupiter, as an example, has decreased (and not increased) over time.

http://www.sciencefocus.com/article/space/jupiter%E2%80%99s-gravity-pulls-so-much-matter-planet-growing

The mass of Jupiter is DECREASING.

Now, you have more trouble on your hands.

Not only you have to explain the acceleration of the rate of precession, but also you'd have to account for these facts:

1. Solar mass is decreasing

2. Lunar distance from Earth is actually receding

3. Jupiter's mass is decreasing

4. Saturn's moons are receding at an increasing rate

Now, let us go back to the precise calculations.

Simon Newcomb included a “constant” in his precession formula to get it to match the increasing rate of precession that was observed leading up to his era.

The “constant” amount was .000222 arc seconds per year.

In 1900 the precession rate was 50.2564 (USNO).

In 2000 the precession rate was 50.290966 (AA).

This shows us the precession rate has increased over the past 100 years by .0346 for an average of .000346” per/year. Comparing this to Newcomb’s 0.000222” figure,  we can see the actual rate of change has not simply increased at a “constant” rate – it has increased at an “exponential” rate.


The mass of the Sun/Moon/planets has not increased (we all know that the mass of the Sun is actually constantly decreasing).

The orbital distances are the same (and the Moon is constantly receding from the Earth).

Precession has nothing to do with the law of attractive gravitation.


Now, not only do the RE have to offset these slight diminishments in gravitational forces, but also to come up with larger effects in the opposite direction.

The acceleration of the rate of precession cannot be explained by modern astronomy.

It is as simple as this.


More proofs that the unusual motion of Sirius is MINIMAL relative to the summer solstice:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2000JHA....31..149S

The heliacal rise of Sirius and ancient Egyptian chronology

Published in the Journal for the History of Astronomy, Vol. 31, Part 2, p. 149 - 155

(https://s2.postimg.org/4ty7sfmw9/sothic.jpg)

This totally agrees with the bibiographical reference I provided earlier:

(https://s1.postimg.org/7jj1vyblr/sothic.jpg)

This proves that Sirius is not precessing like other stars, since in this 4,370 years time period, the calendar dates have only changed by 3 calendar days!

Moreover, the heliacal rising of Sirius appears to keep up with the calendar.

This heliacal rise of Sirius also appears to be a fixed date according to the Julian calendar for over 4,000 years.


HOW or WHY does Sirius keep up so precisely with the exponentially increasing rate of precession?

How can Sirius' proper motion stay synched up so precisely with precession, when the rate of precession itself is changing?


If any local force here in "heliocentrical" solar system drove up the rate of precession, it would NOT also drive up the proper motion of Sirius across the sky.

According to the current theory of lunisolar precession the pole, and therefore the equator of the Earth is supposed to “wobble” over a period of roughly 25800 years relative to the position of the fixed stars and the Sun. In other words, if we were to imagine the Earth ‘fixed’ in its revolution around the Sun at the time when Sirius is in conjunction with the Sun (e.g. during the Summer solstice), an observer would not only notice changes in the declination of Sirius and the other stars, but simultaneously equal changes in the declination of the Sun. In practice, however, Sirius does not show any significant variations in its position relative to the Summer solstice.


Do you understand English?

In practice, however, Sirius does not show any significant variations in its position relative to the Summer solstice.

HOW DOES SIRIUS KNOW HOW TO ACCOUNT FOR NEWCOMB'S CONSTANT?

HOW CAN SIRIUS CALCULATE IN ADVANCE THE EXPONENTIAL INCREASE IN THE ACCELERATION OF THE RATE OF PRECESSION, IF ITS DISTANCE FROM THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS SOME 81 TRILLION KILOMETERS?


READ:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2000JHA....31..149S

The position of Sirius changes with time due to proper motion and precession.

And YET, in practice, however, Sirius does not show any significant variations in its position relative to the Summer solstice.

How does Sirius know how to account for Newcomb's constant?


Please read carefully:

In order to account for the unusual motion of Sirius, which is minimal relative to the Summer solstice and exceptionally high with respect to the stars of the Zodiac, Karine Gadré,  the Associate Researcher at the Department of Astrophysics of the MidiPyrenees Observatory in Toulouse, France offers the following explanation:

“The low change in the celestial coordinates of Sirius comes from its high proper movement, which partly compensated the effects of precession under the Dynastic Period. […] In order to better understand how the proper movement of Sirius can partly compensate the effects of precession, do not only take into account the numerical values of the speed vector. Take also into account the position of Sirius on the celestial vault at a given instant and the direction of the speed vector.”


Dr. Jad Buchwald (Caltech):

Sirius remains about the same distance from the equinoxes—and so from the solstices— throughout these many centuries, despite precession.



HOW THEN CAN SIRIUS ACCOUNT AHEAD OF TIME FOR NEWCOMB'S CONSTANT? FOR THE ACCELERATION OF THE RATE OF AXIAL PRECESSION?


The fact that Sirius seems to maintain its position relative to the position of the sun was a surprise to most scientists (aware of precession), when it was first noticed by the French scientific community following the Egyptian discoveries of Napoleon (and the Dendera Zodiac) in the early 1800’s. Perhaps to save the lunisolar theory of precession, or at least to make sense of physics as then taught, physicist, astronomer, mathematician Jean-Baptiste Biot (21 April 1774 – 3 February 1862) proclaimed that this phenomenon was an oddity of the latitude and horizon around Dendera, meaning it just seemed as if Sirius was immune to the effects of precession. And to this day this is the assumption of many astronomers and astrophysicists.   Physicist Jed Z. Buchwald, professor of history and science and technology (Caltech and MIT) commented on this topic in his article Egyptian Stars Under Paris Skies, when he noted:

"The rising of Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens and important to Egyptians as the signal for the annual flooding of the Nile, was assumed by the French physicists to move with relation to the sun as do the constellations of the zodiac. It does not, however, as we see here."

(http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/Explanation%20of%20Heliacal%20Rising%20of%20Sirius%20by%20Physicist%20Jed%20Z.%20Buchwald.jpg)

The curved line dividing the lit from the dark regions represents the horizon near Dendera. The blue lines show the locations of the ecliptic with respect to the horizon at five helical risings separated by hundreds of years. The vernal points mark the equinoxes at these times, and the circled numbers on the lower right indicate the corresponding positions of Sirius. Sirius remains about the same distance from the equinoxes—and so from the solstices— throughout these many centuries, despite precession.

It is recognized that from the beginning of the empire and during the entire dynastic period the rising of Sirius with the Sun always occurred around the time of the Summer solstice.

The implication of this astronomical fact is best explained by Jed Z. Buchwald, a distinguished Professor of History and Science, in his paper “Egyptian Stars under Paris Skies” (Caltech, Engineering & Science No. 4, 2003), where he discusses the meaning of the Zodiac that has been engraved in the ceiling of the temple of Dendera in Egypt:

".... despite precession, Sirius and the solstice must remain about the same distance in time from one another during most of Egyptian history. Indeed they do, though it’s doubtful that Burckhardt and Coraboeuf had thought it through. Because of Sirius’ position, and the latitudes at which the Egyptians observed the sky, both Sirius’ heliacal rising and the summer solstice remained nearly the same number of days apart throughout Egyptian history even though the zodiac moves slowly around the ecliptic." (pp 29)

Buchwald, who produced a revealing diagram on the ‘Heliacal Risings of Sirius’ in relation to the vernal points (for the period of 2900 BCE to 2941 CE at intervals of 1460 years) using TheSky software, makes it very clear that "Sirius remains about the same distance from the equinoxes - and so from the solstices - throughout these many centuries, despite precession".

THEN, HOW COULD THE STAR SIRIUS HAVE KNOWN HOW TO CALCULATE NEWCOMB'S CONSTANT AND ON TOP OF THAT ADD IT CONTINOUSLY EACH AND EVERY YEAR, AND MOREOVER ACCOUNT FOR ITS EXPONENTIAL RATE OF INCREASE?


Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Sentinel on August 07, 2017, 04:16:50 PM
Ahhh... all the copypasta/walls of text, and still no explanation on how 'bout a Sun 12 miles in height.
Sandy's something else, obviously.  :-\
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Zammo on August 07, 2017, 04:33:52 PM
How many other people completely skip over sandokhans posts. I see his name and immediately scroll till I see another post. His posts are incoherent babble. For someone who thinks they've completely debunked modern physics, why hasn't he published it in a scientific journal? Is it because he knows that any physicist worth a damn would instantly know he's a damn moron? I think so!

Yep. Responded to a couple in the past, but now I just scroll through the copy pasta. Nothing but incoherent babble, as you say.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Alpha2Omega on August 07, 2017, 06:37:57 PM
alphaomega, you should apply for disability, due to basic ignorance of scientific facts.

It's always interesting to anticipate what insult you'll dream up to open each post. You seldom disappoint in that regard.

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The periodic infinite series discovered by Newcomb is STILL IN USE TODAY, for your information.

In fact KAM theory (Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser) grew out of the research done on those infinite series.

The comment made by Professor W. Smart is still valid today, and will always be so.

This shows your basic ignorance of the history of the orbital equations of motion.

Dr. Robert Bass, one of the top astrophysicists of the 20th century, reminding your of your ignorance on the subject:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120916174745/http://www.innoventek.com:80/Bass1974PenseeAllegedProofsOfStabilityOfSolarSystemR.pdf

Go ahead, and write to your local university, informing them that Professor Smart's comment on the Newcomb infinite series is no longer valid, or in use, and they will laugh in your face.

Those equations are fully valid even today, for your information.

As such, Professor Smart's calculation is valid as well.

Equations aren't the same as data and numerical solutions. Even if the equations are the same, the solutions will be no better than the data provided. Numerical solutions, even using the same data, will improve if computational capabilities and techniques are better.

I do take it that "name dropper" must be a big part of your illustrious CV, however.

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More bad news for the RE.

<another attempt to divert the discussion, to Saturn, this time>

One cannot bring the influence of the planets into the acceleration of the rate of precession, since the distances have not changed, and the mass of Jupiter, as an example, has decreased (and not increased) over time.

http://www.sciencefocus.com/article/space/jupiter%E2%80%99s-gravity-pulls-so-much-matter-planet-growing

The mass of Jupiter is DECREASING.

Now, you have more trouble on your hands.

Not only you have to explain the acceleration of the rate of precession, but also you'd have to account for these facts:

1. Solar mass is decreasing

2. Lunar distance from Earth is actually receding

3. Jupiter's mass is decreasing

4. Saturn's moons are receding at an increasing rate

Yes, yes, yes... you already brought those things up. Have you made any progress finding out where they fit into the numerical solar system models yet? Since you say nothing about it, I'll presume you haven't.

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Now, let us go back to the precise calculations.

Simon Newcomb included a “constant” in his precession formula ... <repeated copy & paste from here (https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=71409.msg1939180#msg1939180), here (https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=71409.msg1938764#msg1938764),
here (https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=71409.msg1938380#msg1938380), and probably other places>

Repeating the same lame argument over and over doesn't make it true. Try something that has a basis in fact if you want rational people to agree with you. That would be a refreshing change.

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Now, not only do the RE have to offset these slight diminishments in gravitational forces, but also to come up with larger effects in the opposite direction.

Does this mean you've abandoned your claim that the gravitational forces of the planets are infinitesimal, and in fact, actually matter? Well, at least that's progress!

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The acceleration of the rate of precession cannot be explained by modern astronomy.

It is as simple as this.

According to you. We're supposed to believe that because you say so? Is that all you have?

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More proofs that the unusual motion of Sirius is MINIMAL relative to the summer solstice:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2000JHA....31..149S

The heliacal rise of Sirius and ancient Egyptian chronology...
Again??!? (http://)

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According to the current theory of lunisolar precession the pole, and therefore the equator of the Earth is supposed to “wobble” over a period of roughly 25800 years relative to the position of the fixed stars and the Sun. In other words, if we were to imagine the Earth ‘fixed’ in its revolution around the Sun at the time when Sirius is in conjunction with the Sun (e.g. during the Summer solstice), an observer would not only notice changes in the declination of Sirius and the other stars, but simultaneously equal changes in the declination of the Sun. In practice, however, Sirius does not show any significant variations in its position relative to the Summer solstice.[citation needed]

Do you understand English?

You keep asking this. You keep getting the same answer. Yes.

Do you expect the answer to change? Why? Isn't "doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results" one of the definitions of insanity?

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In practice, however, Sirius does not show any significant variations in its position relative to the Summer solstice.

HOW DOES SIRIUS KNOW HOW TO ACCOUNT FOR NEWCOMB'S CONSTANT?

HOW CAN SIRIUS CALCULATE IN ADVANCE THE EXPONENTIAL INCREASE IN THE ACCELERATION OF THE RATE OF PRECESSION, IF ITS DISTANCE FROM THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS SOME 81 TRILLION KILOMETERS?


READ:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2000JHA....31..149S

The position of Sirius changes with time due to proper motion and precession.

Yes!!! You're getting it!!

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And YET, in practice, however, Sirius does not show any significant variations in its position relative to the Summer solstice.

This statement is completely incompatible with your statement immediately preceding. Can you see why? Meanwhile you accuse everyone else of "cognitive dissonance". ::)

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How does Sirius know how to account for Newcomb's constant? ...

I take it from your bluster, evasion, and repitition of irrelevancies that you haven't found any real data that really shows this. Am I right?

RA and Dec for Sirius in 1950, RA and Dec for Sirius in 2000, please. Are they the same? Yes or no? This information is readily available from sources that were widely used and relied upon when published in mid century, or still are in wide use and relied upon today for the newer data. If there were problems with that data, those problems would also have been widely known. "Oh, that darn Sirius! It's never where it's supposed to be!" said no professional astronomer, ever.

Why don't you acknowledge this? Is it because it completely refutes what you claim about Sirius, so you'd rather fall back to vague reports from antiquity that cannot be verified, and quotes out of context? It certainly seems like it.

The upshot, whether you like it or not, is that Sirius' celestial coordinates are affected by precession, same as other stars. Its proper motion is higher than most stars because it's closer to us than most stars are, but, even so, its proper motion is a tiny fraction of precession (I get 0.018° for proper motion from 1950 to 2000, about 3% of the total motion of 0.5425° from 1950 to 2000, mostly due to precession). It's as simple as that. Care to address this point? I doubt it, but might as well ask.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: sandokhan on August 07, 2017, 10:19:04 PM
The most precise proof that Sirius has NOT undergone precessional movement from 1988 to 2007:

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1718735#msg1718735



https://web.archive.org/web/20100305042618/http://www.siriusresearchgroup.com/diagrams/SiriusTransitObservations.shtml

http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/SiriusResearch.shtml

Extended sidereal time-measurements from 6 April 1994 to 6 April 1996 revealed a total negative time deviation of 1.6 seconds from tropical-sidereal time. According to 'precession' this difference should be about 3.34 seconds per year. Hence a total negative deviation of about 6.68 seconds was to be expected, but did not occur in reality.

The continuous measurement of 6 April 1994 to 5 April 2000 confirmed this fact conclusively. In that period the total negative deviation of 'Sirius time' from the total mean sidereal time accumulated to 4.1 seconds. This means about negative 0.68 s per year (!). Again, according to 'precession' a negative time difference of 6 × 3.34 s or about 20 seconds should have occurred, but did NOT occur with respect to Sirius!

As a matter of fact, the mean rotation period of the earth relative to Sirius is nearly identical to the time interval of the mean sidereal day of 86164.09054 seconds.

Even more surprising is the observation that the mean time interval of the sidereal year, as measured with respect to Sirius is nearly identical (by less than one second) to the time interval of the tropical year. According to the theory of 'precession', a yearly time difference of about 1223 s is supposed to occur between a sidereal year and the tropical year.

The meridian transit measurements of Sirius have shown that neither a time difference of 6 × 1223 s, nor a difference of 6 × 3.34 s has occurred over the 6-year observation period from April 1994 to April 2000.

These observations clearly indicate that the so-called 'precession of the earth' is NOT a scientific fact.

 Note: The actual time difference between the mean solar day of 86400 seconds and the mean sidereal day of 86164.0905382 seconds is exactly 235.9094618 seconds per complete rotation. Due to earth's orbital motion this difference accumulates in a complete revolution of the earth to the time period of one complete solar day. Hence, the total number of earth's rotations in one complete 360° period of revolution around the sun is expressed by the following two equations:

86400 s ÷ 235.9094618 s = 366.24219878
365.24219878 × 86400 s = 366.24219878 × 86164.0905382 s


Practical Observation and Measurement of Sidereal Time with respect to Sirius:

My meridian transition time measurement with respect to Sirius (using the UTC atomic-time radio signal from WWV Fort Collins/Colorado), which I conducted over a period of 5 consecutive years, resulted in the following mean sidereal rotation time for the Earth.


Obviously, as indicated by the adjective mean all variations in time caused by periodic or any other fluctuations of the Earth's axis, as well as the assumed precession of the axis, must be included in the 5-year observation period. Technically speaking this is still the easiest and best available method to measure and determine a mean sidereal day.

First meridian transition time of Sirius on 20.04.1994 at 20:16:48.5 hours
Last meridian transition time of Sirius on 19.04.1999 at 20:21:34.5 hours

The total time span between those two measurements is exactly 157 680 286 seconds.
(5 calendar years including one leap day is 5 x 365 days of 86400 s each, plus the time difference of 286 s on the last day)

In this same time interval exactly 5 x 366 sidereal days (meridian transitions) were completed. As a result, the mean sidereal day with respect to Sirius is:

157 680 286 s ÷ 1830 = 86164.09071 seconds.

Note: The mean sidereal day is officially published with 86164.091 s mean solar time, while the mathematically calculated mean sidereal day is exactly 86164.0905382 seconds. Therefore, my precise measurement of 86164.09071 s with respect to Sirius is within the acceptable range of accuracy.

A maximum error in observation of ± 0.5 seconds between the two (first and last) meridian transition of Sirius during the period of 5 years would have the following results:

minimum: 157 680 285.5 s ÷ 1830 meridian transitions = 86164.09044 s
maximum: 157 680 286.5 s ÷ 1830 meridian transitions = 86164.09098 s

Due to the apparent precession, the measurable mean sidereal day should be about 86164.09966 seconds, since logically the actual mean rotation time of the Earth by 86164.0905382 seconds can only be measured with a delay in time relative to the inertial position of the fixed stars. In other words, if precession were indeed to occur, absolutely no fixed star can ever have a mean meridian transition time of 86164.0905382 seconds.

This physical fact would imply that my measurement with respect to Sirius contains an error of observation by about 16.7 seconds (5 x 3.34 s per year), not to mention the +1223 s with each sidereal year!

https://web.archive.org/web/20040214111127/http://www.siriusresearchgroup.com/article3.htm

(http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/images/Sirius%20Transit%20Data%20-%201988%20to%202007%20-%20Comparison%20to%20Precession_med.jpg)

(http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/images/Sirius%20Transit%20Data%20-%201988%20to%201989.jpg)
(http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/images/Sirius%20Transit%20Data%20-%201989%20to%201990.jpg)
(http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/images/Sirius%20Transit%20Data%20-%201990%20to%201991.jpg)
(http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/images/Sirius%20Transit%20Data%20-%201991%20to%201992.jpg)
(http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/images/Sirius%20Transit%20Data%20-%201992%20to%201993.jpg)

Extended sidereal time-measurements from 6 April 1994 to 6 April 1996 revealed a total negative time deviation of 1.6 seconds from tropical-sidereal time. According to 'precession' this difference should be about 3.34 seconds per year. Hence a total negative deviation of about 6.68 seconds was to be expected, but did not occur in reality.

The continuous measurement of 6 April 1994 to 5 April 2000 confirmed this fact conclusively. In that period the total negative deviation of 'Sirius time' from the total mean sidereal time accumulated to 4.1 seconds. This means about negative 0.68 s per year (!). Again, according to 'precession' a negative time difference of 6 × 3.34 s or about 20 seconds should have occurred, but did NOT occur with respect to Sirius!

(http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/images/Sirius%20Transit%20Data%20-%201994%20to%201998.jpg)
(http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/images/Sirius%20Transit%20Data%20-%201998%20to%202007.jpg)

Therefore, the entire precessional model used by Stellarium is plain wrong.

Indisputable, direct, measurable proofs that for a time period of 20 years, Sirius has not undergone precessional motion, contrary to what the Stellarium software/calculations tell us.


These, then, are the undeniable facts.

(https://s2.postimg.org/4ty7sfmw9/sothic.jpg)

Dr. Jad Buchwald (Caltech):

Sirius remains about the same distance from the equinoxes—and so from the solstices— throughout these many centuries, despite precession.


HOW THEN CAN SIRIUS ACCOUNT AHEAD OF TIME FOR NEWCOMB'S CONSTANT? FOR THE ACCELERATION OF THE RATE OF AXIAL PRECESSION?


Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: MicroBeta on August 08, 2017, 02:18:28 AM
<snip>
Wow you post a lot of info.  Hell, in a series of posts you've practically reproduced nearly all of BRI's website.  I'm curious though.  How does all of this info relate to a solar eclipse.  Although, it's interesting that those in the path of totality will be able to see Sirius during the eclipse. 

Since you seem to know quite a bit about Sirius can you explain why we'll be able to see it as well as the rest of the stars we would normally see at night in February?  It's makes perfect sense in a heliocentric model but how does it fit into the solar eclipse model in FET?

Mike
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: rabinoz on August 08, 2017, 05:18:43 AM
Please!

That video is pure, absolute horse shit!

So your admitting you have no way of arguing the facts? You just call it horse shit... Did you even watch the whole thing?
The topic just happens to be "Solar eclipse" and the video starts "The Lunar Eclipse", so why waste 30 minutes on it?
Especially when it next goes on with
"Many people out there think that the phases of the moon are caused by the curvature of the earth".
That would be flat earthers trying their usual "straw-man arguments", not Globe supporters.

When a 2:50 it states that "The earth has been proved to be without orbital or axial motion", what else would one say?
No, the earth has not been proved to be without orbital or axial motion, so why bother looking further?

So if you think that this video so wonderfully explains the solar eclipse,
you note down the salient points and explain them to us!
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Alpha2Omega on August 08, 2017, 08:54:45 PM
The most precise proof that Sirius has NOT undergone precessional movement from 1988 to 2007:

<links to your own stuff and other sketchy sources>

Extended sidereal time-measurements from 6 April 1994 to 6 April 1996 revealed a total negative time deviation of 1.6 seconds from tropical-sidereal time. According to 'precession' this difference should be about 3.34 seconds per year. Hence a total negative deviation of about 6.68 seconds was to be expected, but did not occur in reality.

The continuous measurement of 6 April 1994 to 5 April 2000 confirmed this fact conclusively. In that period the total negative deviation of 'Sirius time' from the total mean sidereal time accumulated to 4.1 seconds. This means about negative 0.68 s per year (!). Again, according to 'precession' a negative time difference of 6 × 3.34 s or about 20 seconds should have occurred, but did NOT occur with respect to Sirius!

I take it that you haven't found any real star catalogs that agree with you. Star catalogs that provided an accurate location for Sirius at a specified epoch would be a simple and direct way to demonstrate your point if it were true. Since you don't have this, it's necessary for you to substitute the old magician's trick of hand waving to maintain the illusion.

Oh, well, I'm game to show your attempted hand waving...

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As a matter of fact, the mean rotation period of the earth relative to Sirius is nearly identical to the time interval of the mean sidereal day of 86164.09054 seconds.

Even more surprising is the observation that the mean time interval of the sidereal year, as measured with respect to Sirius is nearly identical (by less than one second) to the time interval of the tropical year. According to the theory of 'precession', a yearly time difference of about 1223 s is supposed to occur between a sidereal year and the tropical year.

The meridian transit measurements of Sirius have shown that neither a time difference of 6 × 1223 s, nor a difference of 6 × 3.34 s has occurred over the 6-year observation period from April 1994 to April 2000.

These observations clearly indicate that the so-called 'precession of the earth' is NOT a scientific fact.

What it really means is that one questionable set of observations does not agree with data that has been independently confirmed and routinely used, reliably, by many, over and over, for decades.

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Practical Observation and Measurement of Sidereal Time with respect to Sirius:

My meridian transition time measurement with respect to Sirius (using the UTC atomic-time radio signal from WWV Fort Collins/Colorado), which I conducted over a period of 5 consecutive years, resulted in the following mean sidereal rotation time for the Earth.


Obviously, as indicated by the adjective mean all variations in time caused by periodic or any other fluctuations of the Earth's axis, as well as the assumed precession of the axis, must be included in the 5-year observation period. Technically speaking this is still the easiest and best available method to measure and determine a mean sidereal day.

First meridian transition time of Sirius on 20.04.1994 at 20:16:48.5 hours
Last meridian transition time of Sirius on 19.04.1999 at 20:21:34.5 hours

The total time span between those two measurements is exactly 157 680 286 seconds.
(5 calendar years including one leap day is 5 x 365 days of 86400 s each, plus the time difference of 286 s on the last day)

Plus 4 leap seconds added between April 1994 and April 1999, making the interval 157 680 290 seconds.

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In this same time interval exactly 5 x 366 sidereal days (meridian transitions) were completed. As a result, the mean sidereal day with respect to Sirius is:

157 680 286 s ÷ 1830 = 86164.09071 seconds.

Actually, 157 680 290 s ÷ 1830 = 86,164.09290 seconds

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Note: The mean sidereal day is officially published with 86164.091 s mean solar time, while the mathematically calculated mean sidereal day is exactly 86164.0905382 seconds. Therefore, my precise measurement of 86164.09071 s with respect to Sirius is within the acceptable range of accuracy.

Ignoring a significant omission.

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Due to the apparent precession, the measurable mean sidereal day should be about 86164.09966 seconds [on the ecliptic], since logically the actual mean rotation time of the Earth by 86164.0905382 seconds can only be measured with a delay in time relative to the inertial position of the fixed stars. In other words, if precession were indeed to occur, absolutely no fixed star can ever have a mean meridian transition time of 86164.0905382 seconds.

Stars near the ecliptic pole would.

This leaves a bit of a problem, since, to make Mr. Homann's observations correct would require that Sirius must drift by several seconds in Right Ascension per year, and that much drift would be quickly noticed and loudly commented upon. That drift is not happening.

Quote from: http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/SiriusResearchIntro.shtml
Karl-Heinz Homann (April 29, 1933 – April 23, 2008):

Karl-Heinz Homann was born in Oer-Erkenschwick near Recklinghausen, Germany. He had a background as a mechanic and machinist, and had a Master's Degree as an Electronic Technician. Most of his life he was self-employed, both in Germany and in Canada. He and his family emigrated to Canada in 1980. He spent his remaining years on a small farm near Peers, Alberta.

Herr Homann was an amateur astronomer. Amateurs can and do make significant contributions to the science of astronomy, especially in the fields of variable-star monitoring and occultation timing, but I bring this up in light of your earlier comment:

The wikipedia page you are quoting was written by amateurs (such as yourself), who are not experts in the field.

So are amateurs competent or not? You're selectively trying to have it both ways.

The omission of leap seconds was an obvious mistake. Further:

Quote from: http://binaryresearchinstitute.com/bri/sirius-research-group/
Editor’s Note: Though Mr. Homann uses the term “Meridian” in his discussion below, in fact (and as he explains) Sirius didn’t pass directly overhead but rather the telescope was pointed to the Southwest.
 
...

Finally, the pdf data files show the term “Calculated Avg =>” to show where we added interpolated points to provide continuity in the lines of the graphs. This seems to happen when Mr. Homann was re-adjusting the transit and its tripod. These are mostly evident in his early years and the later data, especially after 1994, has almost no omissions, adjustments or re-calibrations.

...

METHOD OF MEASUREMENT:
A basic transit instrument of 25x magnification is solidly mounted. The optic is permanently aligned in a southwesterly direction. This type of alignment offers an optimal period of observation with respect to Sirius throughout the year. The precise time reference signal used to measure the transit intervals of Sirius is the UTC atomic-time radio signal from WWV Fort Collins/Colorado.

This is a good example why papers should be peer reviewed before publication if expected to be taken seriously. A good peer review would have caught the obvious omission of leap seconds and would likely have asked about more subtle details like the "Solidly mounted" but occasionally "re-adjusted" transit, and questioned the validity of "meridian" measurements that aren't on the meridian, especially with a star as low in the sky as Sirius is from Peers, Alberta . There's a reason real meridian instruments measure actual meridian crossings instead of a proxy. Further, not only are the precession rates based on objects located on the ecliptic, instead of 40° from it, but the times are apparently reported in local time, and it's not clear from what I've read whether it's mountain standard time or daylight time. At around 20h mountain time (standard or daylight) at that time of year, Sirius is in the southwest from Peers, AB, but 20h UT would not, and it would have been broad daylight there. Spelunking deeper into the data set might clarify that point, but, in a  competently-written paper that sort of detail would be specified.

Precession has the biggest effect along the ecliptic and zero effect at the ecliptic poles. The ecliptic poles are those points in the sky perpendicular to the ecliptic. In 25 years, an object on the ecliptic will precess by 0.349 degrees in ecliptic longitude (completing the circle in 25,788 years if the rate remained constant, which sounds about right) and not precess at all at the poles.

Sirius is 50.4 from the southern ecliptic pole (6h 00m 00s, -66° 33'), so Sirius' angular precession would be expected to be

0.349° * sin(50) = 0.349° * 0.771 = 0.268° over 25 years, or
0.268° / 25 years = 0.0108° / year.

In fact, Stellarium reports that in the 25 years from 2000 Jan 1 to 2025 Jan 1, Sirius moved by 0.2680°.

Stellarium also calculates a position for Sirius that is consistent with the position of Sirius for 1950 published in the Becvar atlas and catalog.

What are we left with? Either the catalogs are wrong, or Mr. Homann's measurements are wrong.

The catalogs and precession model are used by a large number of people, amateurs and professionals, on essentially a daily basis without mislocating Sirius. Mr. Homann's measurements say they should be off by about 0.2° since 2000. That much error would be noticed pretty quickly. My vote: the catalogs and precession model are right, and Mr. Homann's data is simply not reliable, for various reasons, at this level of precision.

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Sirius remains about the same distance from the equinoxes—and so from the solstices— throughout these many centuries, despite precession.

Can you provide any reliable evidence of this? I doubt you can.

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HOW THEN CAN SIRIUS ACCOUNT AHEAD OF TIME FOR NEWCOMB'S CONSTANT? FOR THE ACCELERATION OF THE RATE OF AXIAL PRECESSION?

It neither can nor does.

[Edit] correct comment on Mountain standard or daylight time, typo.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: sandokhan on August 08, 2017, 09:43:30 PM
You are in no position to complain about any experiments at all, especially this one.

Remember this?

Almost 400 years later, William H. Donohue undertook the task of translating
Kepler’s 1609 Astronomia Nova into the English New Astronomy (Donohue 1992)
when in the course of his work he redid many of Kepler’s calculations, he was
startled to find some fundamental inconsistencies with Kepler’s reporting of these
same calculations (Donohue 1988).

After detailed computational arguments Donahue concluded the results
reported by Kepler . . . were not at all based on Brahe’s observational data; rather
they were fabricated on the basis of Kepler’s determination that Mars’s orbit was
elliptical.


https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1776670#msg1776670

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1776680#msg1776680

''He fudged things,'' Dr. Donahue said, adding that Kepler was never challenged by a contemporary. A pivotal presentation of data to support the elliptical theory was ''a fraud, a complete fabrication,'' Dr. Donahue wrote in his paper. ''It has nothing in common with the computations from which it was supposedly generated.''


Kepler FAKED, FUDGED, FALSIFIED each and every piece of data, each graph, each page in the Nova Astronomia.

And yet, you and the star catalogues you quote so often, have accepted this fakery with no problem at all.

Not a mere few seconds (which, by the way, do not influence the experiment at all, given the huge discrepancy between what should have been recorded and the data obtained in real time), but a massive falsification of each and every figure.

A total of 27 leap seconds have been added from 1972 to 2016.

0.64 seconds per year.

1994 - 2000 a period of six years.

4/6 = 0.66 seconds per year.

At no time at all, was the data even close to reaching the required 3.34 s figure, not even if we add a whole second each and every year.


How do you feel, complaining about a very well done experiment, with a sneer on your face, while at the same time, you accept wholeheartedly the humongous fakery done by Kepler?

One second per year is too much for you, even though is does not affect the experiment at all: yet you accept the total fakery of the data provided by Kepler with no problem at all.

How can you live with yourself, waving your hands and feet, complaining about a single second (which does not help your cause in any way) per year, and yet accepting with a straight face the total falsification of each and every figure done by Kepler?


The star catalogues you mention have a fatal error: they rely on A STATIC SOLAR SYSTEM, and not on a DYNAMIC SOLAR SYSTEM.

As such they assume that the solar system is static is not moving at all, which it is.


The data gathered by U. Homann and K.H. Homann is real, and the experiment has been performed correctly.


https://web.archive.org/web/20100305042618/http://www.siriusresearchgroup.com/diagrams/SiriusTransitObservations.shtml

http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/SiriusResearch.shtml

(http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/images/Sirius%20Transit%20Data%20-%201988%20to%202007%20-%20Comparison%20to%20Precession_med.jpg)


Extended sidereal time-measurements from 6 April 1994 to 6 April 1996 revealed a total negative time deviation of 1.6 seconds from tropical-sidereal time. According to 'precession' this difference should be about 3.34 seconds per year. Hence a total negative deviation of about 6.68 seconds was to be expected, but did not occur in reality.

The continuous measurement of 6 April 1994 to 5 April 2000 confirmed this fact conclusively. In that period the total negative deviation of 'Sirius time' from the total mean sidereal time accumulated to 4.1 seconds. This means about negative 0.68 s per year (!). Again, according to 'precession' a negative time difference of 6 × 3.34 s or about 20 seconds should have occurred, but did NOT occur with respect to Sirius!


If Sirius really did undergo a precessional motion, then there would have been no discrepancy at all: as such, the 20 second difference which did not occur, proves that the star catalogues are in total error.


Again, the negative deviation recorded was a mere 4.1 seconds: the correct time interval must have been 20 seconds.


The data is very precise and has been gathered over a period of 20 years with extreme precision: there are 20 seconds missing in the interval 1994-2000 which prove that Sirius is not undergoing any precession at all.


And the experiment done by U. Homann is corroborated, supported, by two famous experiments which are undeniable:

These findings are in total agreement with the following facts: the Allais effect (as it applies to precessional motion) shows that the orbit of the pendulum defies Newtonian mechanics; the Sagnac effect proves that the Earth does not orbit the Sun, and thus is not undergoing any kind of an axial precessional movement.

The Allais Effect VI (axial precession is not related to Newtonian mechanics)

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1642033#msg1642033

http://www.allais.info/docs/pugarticle.pdf

The detailed behavior of both pendulums over the eclipse period shown in Fig. 8 was remarkable. During the period before the eclipse no particular disturbance was detected, and the 10-minute precession amounts of both pendulums generally exhibited the same behavior.After the local eclipse maximum the precession amount of the automatic pendulum started to increase steadily, while that of the manual pendulum started to decrease steadily. This trend continued unabated until about forty minutes after fourth contact, when the sense of change of the precession of the manual pendulum changed to be the same as that of the automatic pendulum.

After this both pendulum precession amounts marched together in almost perfect lockstep, decreasing until about 12:15, then executing an abrupt spike upwards and back downwards which ended at about 13:15, and then increasing until about 14:20, at which point the manual pendulum precession again reversed its trend. It is clear from the calmness of the environmental data that these phenomena were not linked to any variation of meteorological conditions.


Analysis. This long Foucault-type pendulum behaved in a very stable manner. However well after the end of the locally visible eclipse, at around 11:33 (to the recording resolution, i.e. between the readings at 11:29 and 11:36), some influence clearly acted for a short period to increase the precession rate. This influence was no longer apparent during the next inter-reading interval (from 11:36 to 11:43), and then reversed itself to some extent during the next interval (from 11:43 to 11:50).


The Allais Effect VII (stationary earth/Foucault's pendulum anomalies)

http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1642668#msg1642668

The physical reality is this. The Allais effect noticed can be due to either a momentary fluctuation in the earths rotation, or in the aethers rotation over that area of space where the alignment occurs.  The former for obvious reasons (the energy factor) is illogical.

"Nobel prize winner Maurice Allais had to go and throw another monkey wrench in the spokes of the heliocentric bicycle. Allais performed a marathon 30 day Foucault Pendulum experiment in 1954. During the experiment an eclipse occurred. Surprisingly, the pendulum changed angles by a significant 13.5 degrees! This suggests something in space was affecting the pendulum, not the motion of the earth."


https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1917978#msg1917978 (missing orbital Sagnac effect)


Therefore, the entire concept of axial precession is wrong.

The acceleration of the rate of axial precession also cannot be explained by modern astronomy.


Go ahead and tell the folks over at the Stellarium catalogue that the GPS satellites DO NOT REGISTER THE ORBITAL SAGNAC EFFECT OR THE SOLAR GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL EFFECT.

The missing orbital Sagnac effect and the missing solar orbital gravitational potential effect means that the hypotheses of the Ruderfer experiment are totally fulfilled: it proves the existence of ether.

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1846721#msg1846721 (M. Ruderfer experiment, 1960)

Do the amateur astronomers over at the Stellarium understand these basic things? They obviously do not.


If you want anybody to believe you that the data presented by Uwe Homann is false, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DISPROVE THE MISSING ORBITAL SAGNAC EFFECT.

And this you most certainly are not in any position to do.


The data gathered by U. Homann is true:

(http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/images/Sirius%20Transit%20Data%20-%201988%20to%202007%20-%20Comparison%20to%20Precession_med.jpg)

Not even once, over a period of 20 years, had Sirius reached the required precession rate of 3.34 s.


Please explain the MISSING orbital Sagnac effect and the MISSING solar orbital gravitational potential effect.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: rabinoz on August 08, 2017, 10:59:59 PM
<< Off topic irrelevant copy-pasta deleted >>
The topic is "Solar eclipse..." so how can a 19 km high sun cause a 495 km wide umbra or a 114 km wide one as on Aug 21?

Guess you don't have a clue?
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Alpha2Omega on August 09, 2017, 09:16:12 AM
You are in no position to complain about any experiments at all, especially this one.

Remember this?

<irrelevant>

And yet, you and the star catalogues you quote so often, have accepted this fakery with no problem at all.

The catalogs are accepted because they provide useful information; the information is useful because it is accurate and works to solve real problems. Do you have any reliable evidence that says otherwise?

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Not a mere few seconds (which, by the way, do not influence the experiment at all, given the huge discrepancy between what should have been recorded and the data obtained in real time), but a massive falsification of each and every figure.

Those four seconds account for a good portion of the discrepancy. What is telling is that they were they omitted in the first place.

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<gratuitous calculation of average leap seconds per year>

How do you feel, complaining about a very well done experiment, with a sneer on your face

A proper peer review would be necessary to determine whether Mr. Homann's experiment was well done or not. Even a cursory critical review reveals problems, so it doesn't look promising.

There are a couple of obvious errors (omission of the leap seconds, expecting Sirius to have the same amount of precession as on the ecliptic instead of 40° away from it), and on first pass, a questionable measurement procedure was employed (not timing actual meridian crossings, but somewhere to the southwest, instead), so its quality is legitimately suspect.

And, I have tried to be respectful to Mr. Homann while at the same time giving his data a critical look, because the result simply does not match better-known information that is proven in wide use to be valid.

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
 - Sagan

"The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness."
 - Laplace

You need better evidence than this one flawed experiment. Do you have anything else?

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while at the same time, you accept wholeheartedly the humongous fakery done by Kepler?

You are all too happy to uncritically accept Mr. Homann's results and exaggerate a critique of Kepler's work because these suit your agenda.

Kepler's results are famous and widely used because they actually work. They work because they match reality. Mr. Homann's results do not match reality, so they remain little known and relegated to a website that traffics in woo, and serve no useful purpose.

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How can you live with yourself, waving your hands and feet, complaining about a single second (which does not help your cause in any way) per year, and yet accepting with a straight face the total falsification of each and every figure done by Kepler?

My goodness! What a lot of bluster and mock outrage. Feel better after that outburst?

It was four seconds, by the way. Nice try at fudging, though!

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The star catalogues you mention have a fatal error: they rely on A STATIC SOLAR SYSTEM, and not on a DYNAMIC SOLAR SYSTEM.

As such they assume that the solar system is static is not moving at all, which it is.

No. Modern star catalogs provide measured values for proper motion when it's large enough to reliably detect. This proper motion is due to relative motion between other stars and the solar system; relative motion is all that matters.

Except in rare cases, proper motion is insignificant for all but the most exacting work. Sirius has one of the largest proper motions since it's one of the nearest stars, but that only amounts to about 1.3 arc seconds per year, and that's mostly in declination, not RA, which is what matters in this issue.

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The data gathered by U. Homann and K.H. Homann is real, and the experiment has been performed correctly.

You really, really want to believe that, but it contains known errors, and probably other errors as well. At any rate, it's conclusions are simply incompatible with other, well-tested, results. There is no way around that.

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<Is it really necessary to keep repeating this crap?>

<Yet another attempt to change the subject>

Go ahead and tell the folks over at the Stellarium catalogue that the GPS satellites DO NOT REGISTER THE ORBITAL SAGNAC EFFECT OR THE SOLAR GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL EFFECT.

You tell them. Please let us know what they say.

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<More diversion and repetition>

Not even once, over a period of 20 years, had Sirius reached the required precession rate of 3.34 s.
<diversion>

Required by whom? The standard precession model predicts only 2.6 sec / year precession in RA for Sirius, since it's not on the ecliptic.

It looks like you're still hanging your hat on a single flawed experiment and cannot find any other, more reliable, evidence to back up your claim. If you do find any, please do present it for consideration. And do try not to wander even further off topic, please. [I can hope, can't I? ;)]
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: sandokhan on August 09, 2017, 10:34:24 AM
Kepler's results are famous and widely used because they actually work.

But they do not, that is why they were totally faked in the first place.

The acceleration of the rate of axial precession DEFIES Newtonian mechanics.

For you to complain of a single second, while at the same time you close your eyes and accept the totally faked treatise Nova Astronomia says a lot about you.


Let us examine the entire interval of 20 years using your figure of 2.6 seconds.

(http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/images/Sirius%20Transit%20Data%20-%201988%20to%201989.jpg)

No leap seconds for 1988

For 1989 we add a single leap second: 0.5 (maximum value) + 1 = 1.5

(http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/images/Sirius%20Transit%20Data%20-%201989%20to%201990.jpg)

One leap second for 1990: 0.6 (maximum value ) + 1 = 1.6

(http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/images/Sirius%20Transit%20Data%20-%201990%20to%201991.jpg)

No leap seconds for 1991

(http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/images/Sirius%20Transit%20Data%20-%201991%20to%201992.jpg)

One leap second for 1992: 0.5 (maximum value) + 1 = 1.5

(http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/images/Sirius%20Transit%20Data%20-%201992%20to%201993.jpg)

One leap second for 1993: 0.8 (maximum value) + 1 = 1.8

(http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/images/Sirius%20Transit%20Data%20-%201993%20to%201994.jpg)

One leap second for 1994: 1 (maximum value) + 1 = 2

(http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/images/Sirius%20Transit%20Data%20-%201994%20to%201998.jpg)

Leap seconds for the years 1995, 1997, 1998

0.5 (maximum value) + 1 = 1.5

(http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/srg/images/Sirius%20Transit%20Data%20-%201998%20to%202007.jpg)

Leap seconds for the year 2005

0.5 (maximum value) + 1 = 1.5


Therefore the claims made by Uwe Homann are true: no precession for Sirius over a period of 20 years.


and cannot find any other, more reliable, evidence to back up your claim. If you do find any, please do present it for consideration.

Really?

Let me demolish your false beliefs right now.

Here is the perfect test for our situation: Homann's claims and experimental data that Sirius does not undergo precessional motion vs. the claims made by the star catalogues you are so fond of.

Obviously, if the Earth does not orbit the Sun, then you are proven to be wrong.


The ORBITAL Sagnac effect is missing and is greater in magnitude than the ROTATIONAL Sagnac effect.

That is, the GPS satellites operate AS IF the Earth is not orbiting the Sun.

Moreover, the ORBITAL solar gravitational potential effect upon these satellites is also missing, is not being registered at all.



http://qem.ee.nthu.edu.tw/f1b.pdf

This is an IOP article.

The author recognizes the earth's orbital Sagnac is missing whereas the earth's rotational Sagnac is not.

He uses GPS and a link between Japan and the US to prove this.

In GPS the actual magnitude of the Sagnac correction
due to earth’s rotation depends on the positions of
satellites and receiver and a typical value is 30 m, as the
propagation time is about 0.1s and the linear speed due
to earth’s rotation is about 464 m/s at the equator. The
GPS provides an accuracy of about 10 m or better in positioning.
Thus the precision of GPS will be degraded significantly,
if the Sagnac correction due to earth’s rotation
is not taken into account. On the other hand, the orbital
motion of the earth around the sun has a linear speed of
about 30 km/s which is about 100 times that of earth’s
rotation. Thus the present high-precision GPS would be
entirely impossible if the omitted correction due to orbital
motion is really necessary.


In an intercontinental microwave link between Japan and
the USA via a geostationary satellite as relay, the influence
of earth’s rotation is also demonstrated in a high-precision
time comparison between the atomic clocks at two remote
ground stations.
In this transpacific-link experiment, a synchronization
error of as large as about 0.3 µs was observed unexpectedly.


Meanwhile, as in GPS, no effects of earth’s orbital motion
are reported in these links, although they would be
easier to observe if they are in existence. Thereby, it is evident
that the wave propagation in GPS or the intercontinental
microwave link depends on the earth’s rotation, but
is entirely independent of earth’s orbital motion around
the sun or whatever. As a consequence, the propagation
mechanism in GPS or intercontinental link can be viewed
as classical in conjunction with an ECI frame, rather than
the ECEF or any other frame, being selected as the unique
propagation frame. In other words, the wave in GPS or the
intercontinental microwave link can be viewed as propagating
via a classical medium stationary in a geocentric
inertial frame.


The author actually present a local-ether model (MLET, Modified Lorentz Ether Theory) in order to account for the MISSING ORBITAL SAGNAC EFFECT.

Published by the BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY, one of the most prestigious journals in the world today.

C.C. Su, "A Local-ether model of propagation of electromagnetic wave," in Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., vol. 45, no. 1, p. 637, Mar. 2000 (Minneapolis, Minnesota).

http://www.ee.nthu.edu.tw/ccsu/

(https://s9.postimg.org/elwt8kzbz/sa1.jpg)

(https://s18.postimg.org/g1rdbygh5/sa2.jpg)

(https://s1.postimg.org/227vdp9csv/sa3.jpg)

(https://s4.postimg.org/4oc5mwe8t/sa4.jpg)


Both the rotational and the orbital motions of the earth together with the orbital
motion of the target planet contribute to the Sagnac
effect. But the orbital motion of the sun has no effects
on the interplanetary propagation.
On the other hand, as
the unique propagation frame in GPS and intercontinental
links is a geocentric inertial frame, the rotational motion
of the earth contributes to the Sagnac effect. But the orbital
motion of the earth around the sun and that of the
sun have no effects on the earthbound propagation.
By
comparing GPS with interplanetary radar, it is seen that
there is a common Sagnac effect due to earth’s rotation
and a common null effect of the orbital motion of the sun
on wave propagation. However, there is a discrepancy in
the Sagnac effect due to earth’s orbital motion.
Moreover,
by comparing GPS with the widely accepted interpretation
of the Michelson–Morley experiment, it is seen that
there is a common null effect of the orbital motions on
wave propagation, whereas there is a discrepancy in the
Sagnac effect due to earth’s rotation.


Based on this characteristic of uniqueness and switchability of the propagation frame,
we propose in the following section the local-ether model
of wave propagation to solve the discrepancies in the in-
fluences of earth’s rotational and orbital motions on the
Sagnac effect
and to account for a wide variety of propagation
phenomena.


Anyway, the interplanetary Sagnac effect is due to
earth’s orbital motion around the sun as well as earth’s
rotation.
Further, for the interstellar propagation where
the source is located beyond the solar system, the orbital
motion of the sun contributes to the interstellar Sagnac
effect as well.

Evidently, as expected, the proposed local-ether model
accounts for the Sagnac effect due to earth’s rotation and
the null effect of earth’s orbital motion in the earthbound
propagations in GPS and intercontinental microwave link
experiments. Meanwhile, in the interplanetary radar, it accounts
for the Sagnac effect due both to earth’s rotation
and to earth’s orbital motion around the sun.


Based on the local-ether model, the propagation is entirely
independent of the earth’s orbital motion around
the sun or whatever and the velocity v for such an earthbound
experiment is referred to an ECI frame and hence
is due to earth’s rotation alone. In the original proposal,
the velocity v was supposed to incorporate earth’s orbital
motion around the sun. Thus, at least, v2/c2
=~ 10-8. Then the amplitude of the phase-difference variation
could be as large as π/3, when the wavelength is
0.6 µm and the path length is 10 m. However, as the velocity
v is the linear velocity due to earth’s rotation alone,
the round-trip Sagnac effect is as small as v2/c2∼ 10-12 which is merely 10-4 times that due to the orbital motion.



The Sagnac effect is a FIRST ORDER effect in v/c.

Even in the round-trip nature of the Sagnac effect, as it was applied in the Michelson-Morley experiment, thus becoming a second order effect within that context, we can see that the ORBITAL SAGNAC IS 10,000 TIMES GREATER than the rotational Sagnac effect.

More information on Dr. C.C. Su's paper on the orbital Sagnac effect.

His paper was also published by HARVARD UNIVERSITY:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?2001EPJC...21..701S

See the headline at the top:

NASA ADS Physics/Geophysics Abstract Service



So far, Dr. C.C. Su's papers, which include the correct orbital Sagnac calculations, based on a circular loop with the center of rotation located at the Sun, have been published by:

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL

EUROPHYSICS LETTERS JOURNAL

JOURNAL OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES AND APPLICATIONS

Further information here:

http://www.ee.nthu.edu.tw/ccsu/



Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications:

http://www.ee.nthu.edu.tw/ccsu/qem/f3c.pdf

For the interplanetary propagation, earth’s orbital
motion contributes to the Sagnac effect as well. This local-ether model
has been adopted to account for the Sagnac effect due to earth’s
motions in a wide variety of propagation phenomena, particularly the
global positioning system (GPS), the intercontinental microwave link,
and the interplanetary radar.


The peer reviewers at the Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications agree that the orbital Sagnac is larger than the rotational Sagnac, that it is missing, and that a local-ether model has to be adopted in order to account for this fact.


The solar gravitational potential effect upon the GPS clocks is also missing:

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1846706#msg1846706


This means that the hypotheses of the RUDERFER EXPERIMENT are totally fulfilled:

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1846721#msg1846721

Ruderfer, Martin (1960) “First-Order Ether Drift
Experiment Using the Mössbauer Radiation,”
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 5, No. 3, Sept. 1, pp
191-192

Ruderfer, Martin (1961) “Errata—First-Order Ether
Drift Experiment Using the Mössbauer Radiation,”
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 7, No. 9, Nov. 1, p 361


in 1961, M. Ruderfer proved mathematically and experimentally, using the spinning Mossbauer effect, the FIRST NULL RESULT in ether drift theory.

A GPS satellite orbiting the Earth, while at the same time the entire system is orbiting the Sun, IS A LARGE SCALE SPINNING MOSSBAUER EXPERIMENT.


Given the very fact that these GPS satellites DO NOT record the orbital Sagnac effect, means that THE HYPOTHESES OF THE RUDERFER EXPERIMENT ARE FULFILLED.

Why is there no requirement for a Sagnac correction due to the earth’s orbital motion? Like the transit time in the spinning Mossbauer experiments, any such effect would be completely canceled by the orbital-velocity effect on the satellite clocks.

However, indirectly, the counteracting effects of the transit time and clock slowing induced biases indicate that an ether drift is present. This is because there is independent evidence that clocks are slowed as a result of their speed. Thus, ether drift must exist or else the clock slowing effect would be observed.

In fact, there is other evidence that the wave-front bending and absence of the
Sagnac effect in the earth-centered frame is due to the clock-biasing effects of velocity
and that an ether drift velocity actually exists in the earth-centered frame. First, the
gradient of the solar gravitational effects upon clocks on the surface of the earth is such
that the clocks will speed up and slow down in precisely the correct way to retain the
appropriate up-wind and down-wind clock biases. Thus, the clocks must be biased or
else the solar gravitational effects would become apparent.


A total refutation of your false claims, and a total debunking of the false beliefs held by the authors of the Stellarium software.


Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Alpha2Omega on August 09, 2017, 11:11:09 AM

<long post>


I've created a new thread in the forum called Sirius stuff! (https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=71567.msg1940161#msg1940161) Let's continue there.

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=71567.msg1940161#msg1940161
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: sandokhan on August 09, 2017, 11:17:54 AM
A change of venue won't help you, on the contrary...
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: JackBlack on August 09, 2017, 02:07:26 PM
A change of venue won't help you, on the contrary...
It isn't designed to help him, it is to remove your spam from this thread. You seem completely incapable of discussing the topic at hand and instead seem to need to bring up completely irrelevant crap and repeatedly jump topic, as if you are incapable of defending anything and just need to bury your opponent in mountains of crap.

Remember, this topic is about the solar eclipse, something you are yet to discuss.

Do you have an explanation for a solar eclipse on a flat Earth? One which is capable of explaining annular and total solar eclipses of various sizes?
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: sandokhan on August 09, 2017, 03:08:35 PM
jackblack, shut the **** up!

Only an ******** like you could claim that the orbital Sagnac is 1/365 of the rotational Sagnac.


Based on the local-ether model, the propagation is entirely
independent of the earth’s orbital motion around
the sun or whatever and the velocity v for such an earthbound
experiment is referred to an ECI frame and hence
is due to earth’s rotation alone. In the original proposal,
the velocity v was supposed to incorporate earth’s orbital
motion around the sun. Thus, at least, v2/c2
=~ 10-8. Then the amplitude of the phase-difference variation
could be as large as π/3, when the wavelength is
0.6 µm and the path length is 10 m. However, as the velocity
v is the linear velocity due to earth’s rotation alone,
the round-trip Sagnac effect is as small as v2/c2∼ 10-12 which is merely 10-4 times that due to the orbital motion.


The Sagnac effect is a FIRST ORDER effect in v/c.

Even in the round-trip nature of the Sagnac effect, as it was applied in the Michelson-Morley experiment, thus becoming a second order effect within that context, we can see that the ORBITAL SAGNAC IS 10,000 TIMES GREATER than the rotational Sagnac effect.


Let's see now.

You claimed a figure of 1/365.

The above-referenced paper, published in the most prestigious journals in the world, proves a value of 10,000.

You error amounts to 3,650,000.

It couldn't have happened to anybody else, you stupid ****.

GTFOH!
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: JackBlack on August 09, 2017, 03:22:48 PM
jackblack, shut the fuck up!

Only an imbecile like you could claim that the orbital Sagnac is 1/365 of the rotational Sagnac.
No, only a sane, rational person would.
Regardless, this is not the place for that.
This is to discuss eclipses.
If you wish to discuss your ignorance of the Sagnac effect, feel free to go back to its thread and point out what was wrong with my math which showed quite explicitly that the orbital Sagnac effect is 1/365th of the rotational Sagnac effect.

If you aren't planning on discussing eclipses then FUCK OFF!
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: rabinoz on August 09, 2017, 06:46:30 PM
jackblack, shut the fuck up!

Only an imbecile like you could claim that the orbital Sagnac is 1/365 of the rotational Sagnac.

Oh, aren't we getting a trifle riled up!  ;D

 ;D ;D Looks like all scientists are imbeciles and only sandokhan is sane, maybe it's the other way around?  ;D ;D

Funny that YOU refuse to analyse the off-centre Sagnac Loop yourself, but everyone else seem able to show this sort of thing!
Quote from: Eyal Schwartz, Published 30 November 2016 • © 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd , European Journal of Physics, Volume 38, Number 1
Sagnac effect in an off-center rotating ring frame of reference

Abstract
Interference resides deeply in our understanding of the wave properties of light. In this paper, the century famous Sagnac effect is demonstrated to be independent of the rotation axis position, using a rotating ring optical fiber in a straightforward laboratory experiment. A simple theoretical explanation for this result is given for any arbitrary closed loop interferometer. The level of this discussion should be suitable for undergraduate physics or engineering courses where electromagnetic theory and optics are discussed. The experiment described utilizes basic and important aspects in modern optics which every science student should acquire.
And
Quote from: A.G.Kelly
Sagnac showed experimentally that the centre of rotation can be away from the geometric centre of the apparatus, without affecting the above result.

From: TIME and the SPEED of LIGHT - a NEW INTERPRETATION, A.G.Kelly (http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/ebooks/Kelly-TimeandtheSpeedofLight.pdf)
Which really puts the kibosh on you interpretation of the "Orbital Sagnac Effect", so nice to know.
Bye bye any massive orbital Sagnac Effect.
And
 
Quote
This phase difference has been demonstrated in a rotating interferometer as well as in a geostationary one.
In the latter case, the Sagnac effect is due solely to earth’s rotation with ωl = ωE. The earth rotation rate ωE is about 2π/(86400 s) and the corresponding maximum phase difference is as large as 2 rad, when the wavelength is 0.6 µm and the loop area S = 0.2 km2. Thus, a loop interferometer can be utilized as a precise means to detect earth’s rotation rate.
Moreover, according to the local-ether model, earth’s orbital motion around the sun or others does not con-
tribute to the Sagnac effect in an earthbound propagation loop
. In as early as 1904 Michelson supposed that
the Sagnac effect due to the orbital motion of the earth around the sun might be detectable, although the angular
speed of the orbital motion is about 1/365 times that of the rotation .

Plenty more where they came from!

The Sagnac delay is independent of the shape of the loop and on its centre of rotation!
Only on the area projected on the plane of rotation and the angular velocity.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: sandokhan on August 09, 2017, 09:44:43 PM
And all analyses end up with results where only the area appears.

Exactly.

Earth's orbital radius = 150,000,000 km r² = 22500000000000000

∆t = 4πR²ω/(c²-v²)


Please show exactly where Mathpages, 2.7  The Sagnac Effect claims that!

The equation for the sagnac is:

4Aω/( c² - v²)

One must calculatate the area swept out by the path and that is A = πR², where R is measured from the Sun to the center of the Earth (radius of the orbital path loop).

If two pulses of light are sent in opposite directions around a stationary circular loop of radius R...


Mathpages says one must use the center of rotation which is the sun.

It is a loop and the earth is moving along the loop in its orbit around the sun.


Sagnac also established that the effect does not depend on the shape of the loop or the center of rotation.

Certainly there are cases where this theory applies, but the rotational Sagnac and the orbital Sagnac effects are NOT two of them.

Both the rotational and the orbital Sagnac effect use the definition provided in mathpages:

"circular loop of radius R"

One must use the center of rotation which is the sun.

It is a loop and the earth is moving along the loop in its orbit around the sun.


You haven't read the paper by E.J. Post.

Post (1967) shows that the two (Sagnac and STR) are of very different orders of magnitude. He says that the dilation factor to be applied under SR is “indistinguishable with presently available equipment” and “is still one order smaller than the Doppler correction, which occurs when observing fringe shifts” in the Sagnac tests. He also points out that the Doppler effect “is v/c times smaller than the effect one wants to observe." Here Post states that the effect forecast by SR, for the time dilation aboard a moving object, is far smaller than the effect to be observed in a Sagnac test.


The papers published by Dr. C.C. Su and by Dr. Daniel Gezari agree exactly with me.

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1917978#msg1917978

Published by the BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY, one of the most prestigious journals in the world today.

C.C. Su, "A Local-ether model of propagation of electromagnetic wave," in Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., vol. 45, no. 1, p. 637, Mar. 2000 (Minneapolis, Minnesota).

http://www.ee.nthu.edu.tw/ccsu/

His paper was also published by HARVARD UNIVERSITY:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?2001EPJC...21..701S

See the headline at the top:

NASA ADS Physics/Geophysics Abstract Service



So far, Dr. C.C. Su's papers, which include the correct orbital Sagnac calculations, based on a circular loop with the center of rotation located at the Sun, have been published by:

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL

EUROPHYSICS LETTERS JOURNAL

JOURNAL OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES AND APPLICATIONS


Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications:

http://www.ee.nthu.edu.tw/ccsu/qem/f3c.pdf

For the interplanetary propagation, earth’s orbital
motion contributes to the Sagnac effect as well. This local-ether model
has been adopted to account for the Sagnac effect due to earth’s
motions in a wide variety of propagation phenomena, particularly the
global positioning system (GPS), the intercontinental microwave link,
and the interplanetary radar.


The peer reviewers at the Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications agree that the orbital Sagnac is larger than the rotational Sagnac, that it is missing, and that a local-ether model has to be adopted in order to account for this fact.


The MISSING SOLAR GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL deals another huge blow to heliocentricity.

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1846706#msg1846706

Many people believe that GR accounts for all the observed
effects caused by gravitational fields. However, in
reality GR is unable to explain an increasing number of
clear observational facts, several of them discovered recently
with the help of the GPS. For instance, GR
predicts the gravitational time dilation and the slowing of
the rate of clocks by the gravitational potential of Earth,
of the Sun, of the galaxy etc. Due to the gravitational
time dilation of the solar gravitational potential, clocks in
the GPS satellites having their orbital plane nearly parallel
to the Earth-Sun axis should undergo a 12 hour period
harmonic variation in their rate so that the difference
between the delay accumulated along the half of the orbit
closest to the Sun amounts up to about 24 ns in the time
display, which would be recovered along the half of the
orbit farthest from the Sun. Such an oscillation exceeds
the resolution of the measurements by more than two
orders of magnitude and, if present, would be very easily
observed. Nevertheless, contradicting the predictions of
GR, no sign of such oscillation is observed.

In fact observations show that the rate of the
atomic clocks on Earth and in the 24 GPS satellites is
ruled by only and exclusively the Earth’s gravitational
field and that effects of the solar gravitational potential
are completely absent.

On the other hand, the time dilation effect of the solar
gravitational field on the atomic clocks orbiting with
Earth round the Sun, which is predicted by GR but not
observed, is a highly precise observation. It exceeds by
orders of magnitude the experimental precision and
hence is infinitely more reliable. If the orbital motion of
Earth round the Sun suppresses the time dilation due to
the solar gravitational field and moreover does not show
the predicted relativistic time dilation due to this orbital
motion
, then it seems reasonable that a clock in a satellite
orbiting round the Earth in a direct equatorial orbit or in a
jet flying round the Earth too should give no evidence of
such a relativistic time dilation. The relativistic time dilation
alleged in both these round the world Sagnac experiments
is in clear and frontal contradiction with the
absence of such a relativistic time dilation effect in the
case of the orbiting Earth round the Sun.

Thus, the hypotheses of the Ruderfer experiment are totally fulfilled:

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1846721#msg1846721

Why is there no requirement for a Sagnac correction due to the earth’s orbital motion? Like the transit time in the spinning Mossbauer experiments, any such effect would be completely canceled by the orbital-velocity effect on the satellite clocks.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: JackBlack on August 10, 2017, 12:56:08 AM
And all analyses end up with results where only the area appears.

Exactly.
Again, go back to the Sagnac thread, you know, the one where you got your ass handed to you repeatedly?

As a reminder, yes, exactly, it is the area, specifically the area of the loop, not the area of the orbit.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: sandokhan on August 10, 2017, 01:03:17 AM
No such thing ever happened.

You were taken out of the ring on a stretcher, wearing your t-shirt (defeater of...)


As a reminder, yes, exactly, it is the area, specifically the area of the loop, not the area of the orbit.

Let's put your statement to the test.

Published by the BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY, one of the most prestigious journals in the world today.

C.C. Su, "A Local-ether model of propagation of electromagnetic wave," in Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., vol. 45, no. 1, p. 637, Mar. 2000 (Minneapolis, Minnesota).

http://www.ee.nthu.edu.tw/ccsu/

His paper was also published by HARVARD UNIVERSITY:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?2001EPJC...21..701S

See the headline at the top:

NASA ADS Physics/Geophysics Abstract Service



So far, Dr. C.C. Su's papers, which include the correct orbital Sagnac calculations, based on a circular loop with the center of rotation located at the Sun, have been published by:

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL

EUROPHYSICS LETTERS JOURNAL

JOURNAL OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES AND APPLICATIONS


Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications:

http://www.ee.nthu.edu.tw/ccsu/qem/f3c.pdf

For the interplanetary propagation, earth’s orbital
motion contributes to the Sagnac effect as well. This local-ether model
has been adopted to account for the Sagnac effect due to earth’s
motions in a wide variety of propagation phenomena, particularly the
global positioning system (GPS), the intercontinental microwave link,
and the interplanetary radar.


The peer reviewers at the Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications agree that the orbital Sagnac is larger than the rotational Sagnac, that it is missing, and that a local-ether model has to be adopted in order to account for this fact.


(https://s9.postimg.org/elwt8kzbz/sa1.jpg)

(https://s18.postimg.org/g1rdbygh5/sa2.jpg)

(https://s1.postimg.org/227vdp9csv/sa3.jpg)

(https://s4.postimg.org/4oc5mwe8t/sa4.jpg)


Both the rotational and the orbital motions of the earth together with the orbital
motion of the target planet contribute to the Sagnac
effect. But the orbital motion of the sun has no effects
on the interplanetary propagation.
On the other hand, as
the unique propagation frame in GPS and intercontinental
links is a geocentric inertial frame, the rotational motion
of the earth contributes to the Sagnac effect. But the orbital
motion of the earth around the sun and that of the
sun have no effects on the earthbound propagation.
By
comparing GPS with interplanetary radar, it is seen that
there is a common Sagnac effect due to earth’s rotation
and a common null effect of the orbital motion of the sun
on wave propagation. However, there is a discrepancy in
the Sagnac effect due to earth’s orbital motion.
Moreover,
by comparing GPS with the widely accepted interpretation
of the Michelson–Morley experiment, it is seen that
there is a common null effect of the orbital motions on
wave propagation, whereas there is a discrepancy in the
Sagnac effect due to earth’s rotation.


Based on this characteristic of uniqueness and switchability of the propagation frame,
we propose in the following section the local-ether model
of wave propagation to solve the discrepancies in the in-
fluences of earth’s rotational and orbital motions on the
Sagnac effect
and to account for a wide variety of propagation
phenomena.


Anyway, the interplanetary Sagnac effect is due to
earth’s orbital motion around the sun as well as earth’s
rotation.
Further, for the interstellar propagation where
the source is located beyond the solar system, the orbital
motion of the sun contributes to the interstellar Sagnac
effect as well.

Evidently, as expected, the proposed local-ether model
accounts for the Sagnac effect due to earth’s rotation and
the null effect of earth’s orbital motion in the earthbound
propagations in GPS and intercontinental microwave link
experiments. Meanwhile, in the interplanetary radar, it accounts
for the Sagnac effect due both to earth’s rotation
and to earth’s orbital motion around the sun.


Based on the local-ether model, the propagation is entirely
independent of the earth’s orbital motion around
the sun or whatever and the velocity v for such an earthbound
experiment is referred to an ECI frame and hence
is due to earth’s rotation alone. In the original proposal,
the velocity v was supposed to incorporate earth’s orbital
motion around the sun. Thus, at least, v2/c2
=~ 10-8. Then the amplitude of the phase-difference variation
could be as large as π/3, when the wavelength is
0.6 µm and the path length is 10 m. However, as the velocity
v is the linear velocity due to earth’s rotation alone,
the round-trip Sagnac effect is as small as v2/c2∼ 10-12 which is merely 10-4 times that due to the orbital motion.



The Sagnac effect is a FIRST ORDER effect in v/c.

Even in the round-trip nature of the Sagnac effect, as it was applied in the Michelson-Morley experiment, thus becoming a second order effect within that context, we can see that the ORBITAL SAGNAC IS 10,000 TIMES GREATER than the rotational Sagnac effect.


Sorry, the orbital Sagnac effect is calculated using the area of the orbit.

Feel free to write to your local university or send your thoughts on the subject to the Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: JackBlack on August 10, 2017, 01:31:26 AM
No such thing ever happened.
No, that was exactly what happened.
I showed you to be completely full of shit, derived the Sagnac effect for you, and showed it is proportional to the area of the loop, not the orbit.
You were completely unable to refute it and instead kept spouting the same refuted crap.

You were taken out of the ring on a stretcher, wearing your t-shirt (defeater of...)
Nope. I left the ring walking out after you ran away like a pathetic child.

Let's put your statement to the test.
Let's not. Like I said, if you wish to discuss it, GO BACK TO THAT THREAD!!!

Stop trying to bring up your refuted bullshit elsewhere just because you are too afraid to go back to a thread where you were so easily defeated.
Bringing it up here wont magically make it correct. It is still refuted BS.
Bringing it up here just shows you to be pathetic, a coward and to know that you are full of shit, lacking in any integrity or honesty.

GROW UP!!
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: sandokhan on August 10, 2017, 01:56:08 AM
You are undergoing another episode of cognitive dissonance, which is a terrible way to live.

Your piece of shit analysis was shown to be totally erroneous.

Here are the undeniable facts.

Please read them carefully, and also take your medicine.

Published by the BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY, one of the most prestigious journals in the world today.

C.C. Su, "A Local-ether model of propagation of electromagnetic wave," in Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., vol. 45, no. 1, p. 637, Mar. 2000 (Minneapolis, Minnesota).

http://www.ee.nthu.edu.tw/ccsu/

His paper was also published by HARVARD UNIVERSITY:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?2001EPJC...21..701S

See the headline at the top:

NASA ADS Physics/Geophysics Abstract Service



So far, Dr. C.C. Su's papers, which include the correct orbital Sagnac calculations, based on a circular loop with the center of rotation located at the Sun, have been published by:

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL

EUROPHYSICS LETTERS JOURNAL

JOURNAL OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES AND APPLICATIONS


Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications:

http://www.ee.nthu.edu.tw/ccsu/qem/f3c.pdf

For the interplanetary propagation, earth’s orbital
motion contributes to the Sagnac effect as well. This local-ether model
has been adopted to account for the Sagnac effect due to earth’s
motions in a wide variety of propagation phenomena, particularly the
global positioning system (GPS), the intercontinental microwave link,
and the interplanetary radar.


The peer reviewers at the Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications agree that the orbital Sagnac is larger than the rotational Sagnac, that it is missing, and that a local-ether model has to be adopted in order to account for this fact.


(https://s9.postimg.org/elwt8kzbz/sa1.jpg)

(https://s18.postimg.org/g1rdbygh5/sa2.jpg)

(https://s1.postimg.org/227vdp9csv/sa3.jpg)

(https://s4.postimg.org/4oc5mwe8t/sa4.jpg)


Both the rotational and the orbital motions of the earth together with the orbital
motion of the target planet contribute to the Sagnac
effect. But the orbital motion of the sun has no effects
on the interplanetary propagation.
On the other hand, as
the unique propagation frame in GPS and intercontinental
links is a geocentric inertial frame, the rotational motion
of the earth contributes to the Sagnac effect. But the orbital
motion of the earth around the sun and that of the
sun have no effects on the earthbound propagation.
By
comparing GPS with interplanetary radar, it is seen that
there is a common Sagnac effect due to earth’s rotation
and a common null effect of the orbital motion of the sun
on wave propagation. However, there is a discrepancy in
the Sagnac effect due to earth’s orbital motion.
Moreover,
by comparing GPS with the widely accepted interpretation
of the Michelson–Morley experiment, it is seen that
there is a common null effect of the orbital motions on
wave propagation, whereas there is a discrepancy in the
Sagnac effect due to earth’s rotation.


Based on this characteristic of uniqueness and switchability of the propagation frame,
we propose in the following section the local-ether model
of wave propagation to solve the discrepancies in the in-
fluences of earth’s rotational and orbital motions on the
Sagnac effect
and to account for a wide variety of propagation
phenomena.


Anyway, the interplanetary Sagnac effect is due to
earth’s orbital motion around the sun as well as earth’s
rotation.
Further, for the interstellar propagation where
the source is located beyond the solar system, the orbital
motion of the sun contributes to the interstellar Sagnac
effect as well.

Evidently, as expected, the proposed local-ether model
accounts for the Sagnac effect due to earth’s rotation and
the null effect of earth’s orbital motion in the earthbound
propagations in GPS and intercontinental microwave link
experiments. Meanwhile, in the interplanetary radar, it accounts
for the Sagnac effect due both to earth’s rotation
and to earth’s orbital motion around the sun.


Based on the local-ether model, the propagation is entirely
independent of the earth’s orbital motion around
the sun or whatever and the velocity v for such an earthbound
experiment is referred to an ECI frame and hence
is due to earth’s rotation alone. In the original proposal,
the velocity v was supposed to incorporate earth’s orbital
motion around the sun. Thus, at least, v2/c2
=~ 10-8. Then the amplitude of the phase-difference variation
could be as large as π/3, when the wavelength is
0.6 µm and the path length is 10 m. However, as the velocity
v is the linear velocity due to earth’s rotation alone,
the round-trip Sagnac effect is as small as v2/c2∼ 10-12 which is merely 10-4 times that due to the orbital motion.



The Sagnac effect is a FIRST ORDER effect in v/c.

Even in the round-trip nature of the Sagnac effect, as it was applied in the Michelson-Morley experiment, thus becoming a second order effect within that context, we can see that the ORBITAL SAGNAC IS 10,000 TIMES GREATER than the rotational Sagnac effect.


Your piece of shit analysis is just that, a piece of worthless thrash.

Please feel free to send your analysis to the same journals listed above, and see the kind of response you will receive, until then you stand totally defeated.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: JackBlack on August 10, 2017, 02:18:48 AM
You are undergoing another episode of cognitive dissonance, which is a terrible way to live.
Once again describing yourself.

Your piece of shit analysis was shown to be totally erroneous.
No it wasn't. You were unable to show a single flaw in it. You had to run away and pretend it didn't exists.

Here are the undeniable facts.
No, here are the facts (which nut jobs like you still deny):
YOU WERE WRONG!!
The orbital Sagnac effect is much smaller than the rotational one.
You were unable to show anything wrong with my analysis.

Now like I said, if you want to discuss it, GO BACK TO THAT THREAD!!!
You can start by showing what you think is wrong with my analysis. Don't bother discussing the conclusion, discuss either the premises or the math. NOTHING ELSE!!!
If you are unable to show a problem with one of those (the premises or math), then that means the conclusion stands as correct.
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: sandokhan on August 10, 2017, 02:34:07 AM
You are totally detached from reality, a medical condition which is even worse than cognitive dissonance.

Here is again the total demolition of your failed piece of shit analysis.

jack has committed a monumental error in his derivation.

Of course, nothing else could have been expected of him.

He practically threw out the most basic requirement of the Sagnac effect.


What is the center of rotation for the orbit of the earth?

Here is the equation.

∆t = 4πRv / ( c² - v²) = 4Aω / ( c² - v²)

Where A = πR² and v = ωR

So, it is easy to calculate the orbital sagnac is more than 60 times that of the rotational.

But, A is based on R and according to mathpages, "circular loop of radius R".

http://www.mathpages.com/rr/s2-07/2-07.htm

Mathpages says you must use the center of rotation which is the sun.


Are there situations where the location of the center of rotation can be overlooked? Sure, but the rotational Sagnac and the orbital Sagnac are not among them.

In fact, the rotational Sagnac is calculated exactly as described above: using a circular loop.

But the same requirement is to be fulfilled in the case of the orbital Sagnac.



http://www.mathpages.com/rr/s2-07/2-07.htm

It is a loop and the earth is moving along the loop in its orbit around the sun.

If light travels at one speed c, then as the earth supposedly moves in it's revolution loop at 30k/s, while light moves c through space, the unit at the equator at noon would move with the earth' rotation and the earth's revolution cutting the distance the signal must travel to meet the unit.


"Let's say the unit is at the equator and the satellite is low on the horizon in the east at noon.

That means the unit is traveling at the orbital speed of the earth at 67,000 MPH.

The satellite emits at one speed c in space. While the light travels through space toward the unit at c, the unit moves with the earth at 67,000 MPH. The unit cuts the distance that the light must travel.

This is not being seen by any experiements nor GPS."

Yet, this same logic applies and works with the earth's supposed rotation.


jack does not understand this very basic fact of science, and has proceeded to construct his very own version of the Universe.

Let us see what happens when one disregards the basic facts of science.


jack's own words:

And thus:
dto/dtr=k*wo/k*wr=wo/wo=1/365.

Just like I said.
I also backed up this formula with my own derivation.


jack claims that the orbital Sagnac is 1/365 of the rotational Sagnac, and that, read carefully: "I also backed up this formula with my own derivation."

Using his own very words, jack is telling us that his derivation leads directly to this figure: 1/365.


Here is another quote now:

This is the correct calculation:
Δto/Δt r=[4Aiωo/( c² - vo²)] / [4Aiωr/( c² - vr²)]

Note, the area here has nothing to do with the area of Earth's orbit or radius of it or the radius of Earth. It is the area of the interferometer, as my derivation.

No where in any derivation did the area of Earth's orbit come into it.

So to continue:
Δto/Δt r=[4Aiωo/( c² - vo²)] / [4Aiωr/( c² - vr²)]
Obviously, ( c² - vo²) and ( c² - vr²) are very close to the same number, so let's lave them off.
=4Aiωo/ 4Aiωr
Then to simplify:
o/ ωr

And would you look at that? It ends up being just like what we claim.
You have ωo/ ωr.
As Earth rotates roughly 365 times for each orbit, ωr=365*ωo.
Thus we get:
Δto/Δt ro/ ωr
o/ (365*ωo)
=1/365

Just like we claim.


A very clear claim based on jack's derivation.

These are his own very words.


He claims that the derivation, as shown above, leads to the figure 1/365.


And he says that he bases his entire derivation on this: Note, the area here has nothing to do with the area of Earth's orbit or radius of it or the radius of Earth.

This hypothesis, in turn, jack claims leads to this conclusion:

=1/365

Just like we claim.



jack simply threw out the basic requirement that the orbital Sagnac is a circular loop, and reached the conclusion that the orbital Sagnac is 1/365 of the rotational Sagnac.


Let us put jack's claims to a real test.


Published by the BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY, one of the most prestigious journals in the world today.

C.C. Su, "A Local-ether model of propagation of electromagnetic wave," in Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., vol. 45, no. 1, p. 637, Mar. 2000 (Minneapolis, Minnesota).

http://www.ee.nthu.edu.tw/ccsu/

More information on Dr. C.C. Su's paper on the orbital Sagnac effect.

His paper was also published by HARVARD UNIVERSITY:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?2001EPJC...21..701S

See the headline at the top:

NASA ADS Physics/Geophysics Abstract Service



So far, Dr. C.C. Su's papers, which include the correct orbital Sagnac calculations, based on a circular loop with the center of rotation located at the Sun, have been published by:

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL

EUROPHYSICS LETTERS JOURNAL

JOURNAL OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES AND APPLICATIONS

Further information here:

http://www.ee.nthu.edu.tw/ccsu/

(https://s4.postimg.org/4oc5mwe8t/sa4.jpg)

Anyway, the interplanetary Sagnac effect is due to
earth’s orbital motion around the sun as well as earth’s
rotation.

Based on the local-ether model, the propagation is entirely
independent of the earth’s orbital motion around
the sun or whatever and the velocity v for such an earthbound
experiment is referred to an ECI frame and hence
is due to earth’s rotation alone. In the original proposal,
the velocity v was supposed to incorporate earth’s orbital
motion around the sun. Thus, at least, v^2/c^2
=~ 10^-8. Then the amplitude of the phase-difference variation
could be as large as π/3, when the wavelength is
0.6 µm and the path length is 10 m. However, as the velocity
v is the linear velocity due to earth’s rotation alone,
the round-trip Sagnac effect is as small as v^2/c^2∼ 10^-12 which is merely 10^-4 times that due to the orbital motion.


The Sagnac effect is a FIRST ORDER effect in v/c.

Even in the round-trip nature of the Sagnac effect, as it was applied in the Michelson-Morley experiment, thus becoming a second order effect within that context, we can see that the ORBITAL SAGNAC IS 10,000 TIMES GREATER than the rotational Sagnac effect.


The author PROVED that the orbital Sagnac is 10,000 times greater than the rotational Sagnac, and the peer reviewers agree totally.


It was published in one of the most respected journals in the world.


Both claims cannot be true at the same time, right?


The derivation's conclusion is that the orbital Sagnac is 1/365 of the rotational Sagnac.

The mainstream papers published by these respected journals prove that the orbital Sagnac is 10,000 greater than the rotational Sagnac.



That is what is totally wrong with your derivation.


You are off by a factor of 3,650,000!


Why are you off by such a huge factor?

Because of the wrong application of the Sagnac formula.


∆t = 4πRv / ( c² - v²) = 4Aω / ( c² - v²)

Where A = πR² and v = ωR

But, A is based on R and according to mathpages, "circular loop of radius R".

http://www.mathpages.com/rr/s2-07/2-07.htm

Mathpages says you must use the center of rotation which is the sun.



Our friend jack brushed aside this requirement to impose his will on everybody else:

Note, the area here has nothing to do with the area of Earth's orbit or radius of it or the radius of Earth. (jack's own very words)

In this particular case, the orbital path of the Earth, YOU MUST USE THE CORRECT RADIUS IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE A CORRECT RESULT.


jack's dismissal of basic scientific facts led to this monumentally erroneous conclusions, using his own words:

=1/365

Just like we claim.



In the original proposal,
the velocity v was supposed to incorporate earth’s orbital
motion around the sun. Thus, at least, v^2/c^2
=~ 10^-8. Then the amplitude of the phase-difference variation
could be as large as π/3, when the wavelength is
0.6 µm and the path length is 10 m. However, as the velocity
v is the linear velocity due to earth’s rotation alone,
the round-trip Sagnac effect is as small as v^2/c^2∼ 10^-12 which is merely 10^-4 times that due to the orbital motion.



PUBLISHED BY THE BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY, one of the most respected journals in the world.


Dr. C.C. Su proves that the correct figure is at least 10,000.


jack's catastrophic interpretation of the Sagnac effect leads to a figure of 1/365.


Let us see by how much jack went wrong.


10,000/(1/365) = 3,650,000

A huge margin of error, just what we would expect of someone like jack: he practically disregarded the most basic requirement of the Sagnac effect applied to the orbital case.


There is nothing else to discuss here.


Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: JackBlack on August 10, 2017, 03:16:38 AM
Sandy, get this through your thick skull:
I AM NOT GOING TO DISCUSS THE SAGNAC EFFECT HERE!!!
If you want to discuss it, go back to that thread. Stop trying to derail this one.

Also, the way you are going about it is completely wrong.
You need to show a problem with the analysis. You can't just jump to the conclusion and then try saying that is wrong.
Especially not when you quote something that agrees with me, that it is the area of the loop, not the orbit.

Like I said, GROW UP!!!

Edit: PS - This is what you need to refute:
https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=70614.msg1915658#msg1915658
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: rabinoz on August 10, 2017, 03:33:48 AM
And all analyses end up with results where only the area appears.
You missed a bit And all analyses end up with results where only the area of the Sagnac loop appears.

But as you have been repeatedly told, the topic is "Solar eclipse...". Can't you read yet?
Title: Re: Solar eclipse...
Post by: Badxtoss on August 10, 2017, 02:17:44 PM
And all analyses end up with results where only the area appears.

Exactly.

Earth's orbital radius = 150,000,000 km r² = 22500000000000000

∆t = 4πR²ω/(c²-v²)


Please show exactly where Mathpages, 2.7  The Sagnac Effect claims that!

The equation for the sagnac is:

4Aω/( c² - v²)

One must calculatate the area swept out by the path and that is A = πR², where R is measured from the Sun to the center of the Earth (radius of the orbital path loop).

If two pulses of light are sent in opposite directions around a stationary circular loop of radius R...


Mathpages says one must use the center of rotation which is the sun.

It is a loop and the earth is moving along the loop in its orbit around the sun.


Sagnac also established that the effect does not depend on the shape of the loop or the center of rotation.

Certainly there are cases where this theory applies, but the rotational Sagnac and the orbital Sagnac effects are NOT two of them.

Both the rotational and the orbital Sagnac effect use the definition provided in mathpages:

"circular loop of radius R"

One must use the center of rotation which is the sun.

It is a loop and the earth is moving along the loop in its orbit around the sun.


You haven't read the paper by E.J. Post.

Post (1967) shows that the two (Sagnac and STR) are of very different orders of magnitude. He says that the dilation factor to be applied under SR is “indistinguishable with presently available equipment” and “is still one order smaller than the Doppler correction, which occurs when observing fringe shifts” in the Sagnac tests. He also points out that the Doppler effect “is v/c times smaller than the effect one wants to observe." Here Post states that the effect forecast by SR, for the time dilation aboard a moving object, is far smaller than the effect to be observed in a Sagnac test.


The papers published by Dr. C.C. Su and by Dr. Daniel Gezari agree exactly with me.

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1917978#msg1917978

Published by the BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY, one of the most prestigious journals in the world today.

C.C. Su, "A Local-ether model of propagation of electromagnetic wave," in Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., vol. 45, no. 1, p. 637, Mar. 2000 (Minneapolis, Minnesota).

http://www.ee.nthu.edu.tw/ccsu/

His paper was also published by HARVARD UNIVERSITY:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?2001EPJC...21..701S

See the headline at the top:

NASA ADS Physics/Geophysics Abstract Service



So far, Dr. C.C. Su's papers, which include the correct orbital Sagnac calculations, based on a circular loop with the center of rotation located at the Sun, have been published by:

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL

EUROPHYSICS LETTERS JOURNAL

JOURNAL OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES AND APPLICATIONS


Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications:

http://www.ee.nthu.edu.tw/ccsu/qem/f3c.pdf

For the interplanetary propagation, earth’s orbital
motion contributes to the Sagnac effect as well. This local-ether model
has been adopted to account for the Sagnac effect due to earth’s
motions in a wide variety of propagation phenomena, particularly the
global positioning system (GPS), the intercontinental microwave link,
and the interplanetary radar.


The peer reviewers at the Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications agree that the orbital Sagnac is larger than the rotational Sagnac, that it is missing, and that a local-ether model has to be adopted in order to account for this fact.


The MISSING SOLAR GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL deals another huge blow to heliocentricity.

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1846706#msg1846706

Many people believe that GR accounts for all the observed
effects caused by gravitational fields. However, in
reality GR is unable to explain an increasing number of
clear observational facts, several of them discovered recently
with the help of the GPS. For instance, GR
predicts the gravitational time dilation and the slowing of
the rate of clocks by the gravitational potential of Earth,
of the Sun, of the galaxy etc. Due to the gravitational
time dilation of the solar gravitational potential, clocks in
the GPS satellites having their orbital plane nearly parallel
to the Earth-Sun axis should undergo a 12 hour period
harmonic variation in their rate so that the difference
between the delay accumulated along the half of the orbit
closest to the Sun amounts up to about 24 ns in the time
display, which would be recovered along the half of the
orbit farthest from the Sun. Such an oscillation exceeds
the resolution of the measurements by more than two
orders of magnitude and, if present, would be very easily
observed. Nevertheless, contradicting the predictions of
GR, no sign of such oscillation is observed.

In fact observations show that the rate of the
atomic clocks on Earth and in the 24 GPS satellites is
ruled by only and exclusively the Earth’s gravitational
field and that effects of the solar gravitational potential
are completely absent.

On the other hand, the time dilation effect of the solar
gravitational field on the atomic clocks orbiting with
Earth round the Sun, which is predicted by GR but not
observed, is a highly precise observation. It exceeds by
orders of magnitude the experimental precision and
hence is infinitely more reliable. If the orbital motion of
Earth round the Sun suppresses the time dilation due to
the solar gravitational field and moreover does not show
the predicted relativistic time dilation due to this orbital
motion
, then it seems reasonable that a clock in a satellite
orbiting round the Earth in a direct equatorial orbit or in a
jet flying round the Earth too should give no evidence of
such a relativistic time dilation. The relativistic time dilation
alleged in both these round the world Sagnac experiments
is in clear and frontal contradiction with the
absence of such a relativistic time dilation effect in the
case of the orbiting Earth round the Sun.

Thus, the hypotheses of the Ruderfer experiment are totally fulfilled:

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1846721#msg1846721

Why is there no requirement for a Sagnac correction due to the earth’s orbital motion? Like the transit time in the spinning Mossbauer experiments, any such effect would be completely canceled by the orbital-velocity effect on the satellite clocks.
So let me ask again.  Do you have any quotes from any of these scientists that show they agree with your conclusions?