That's my point, they do the same but opposite thing. If they find out how far a small telescopic model will view, than why couldn't they judge how far their larger ones would?
It doesn't work that way. If you don't know how far away or how big a specific celestial body is, what hope do you have of determining the distance from the sun through random adjusting of aperature? That's not how astronomers judge distances. Aperture of the lens isn't remotely related to the distance.
Astronomers use triangulation from two distant points on earth, assuming a sphere.
Let's get this straight, accelerating does not generate a gravitational field around you, the equivalence principle doesn't say that at all,
Yes it does.
For the exact mathematics on Einstein's Principle of Equivalence see this paper on the subject:
http://xxx.lanl.gov/ftp/physics/papers/0204/0204044.pdf"However one of the main tenants of general relativity is the Principle of Equivalence: A uniform gravitational
field is exactly equivalent to a uniformly accelerating frame of reference. This implies that one can create a uniform gravitational
field simply by changing one’s frame of reference from an inertial frame of reference to an accelerating frame, which is a rather difficult idea to accept."
Also, read this recent thread where TheEngineer breaks down the Equivalence Principle:
http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=11670.0-
Classical gravity, in retrospect, relies on a speculative messenger particle called the Graviton that has not been discovered by modern science. There is a big problem with the existence of the Graviton. In a previous post on this forum Narcberry shares his concerns, which I believe sums it up:
"If a subatomic particle is responsible for gravity, I can show you my major problem with that. Lets say the world is round and all celestial bodies orbit each other due to a force called gravity. Well the earth and sun send gravitons back and forth that will cause a certain amount of attraction towards one another dependant on the quantity of gravitons and in what direction they came from or what message they might contain.
Heres my problem: There is a potential energy in the sun and earth due to their distance. Meaning that they have the energy to fall to each other and collide with massive energy. Now if a graviton exists, what if something interferes with its path or message? What if the sun is told to be attracted to the earth in a different direction? That would violate the whole principals of newtonian physics. It would mean you could create energy from nothing.
This is due to the fact that the idea of gravitons implies that the sun has the ability to accelerate itself in any direction. All it is doing is waiting to find out what vector of acceleration to apply. This is inconsistant with many theories. The force of attraction on the sun, must be a direct cause of the earth and visa versa.
Additionally, gravity is a pulling force. In physics, a very basic lesson is there is no such thing as a pulling force, only a pushing one. These can be complicated, so as to seem like a pulling force when it is actually a series of pushing ones. This makes me inclined to believe in gravity (and magnetic and electric) forces that are a series of pushing ones. But that is off topic. If you want to know more I will explain elsewhere."