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   J. J. Lodder to Thomas Heger   
   Re: What came first the stars or the ear   
   15 Sep 25 13:37:04   
   
   XPost: sci.physics.relativity   
   From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl   
      
   Thomas Heger  wrote:   
      
   > Am Freitag000012, 12.09.2025 um 12:54 schrieb Paul B. Andersen:   
   > > Den 12.09.2025 08:07, skrev Thomas Heger:   
   > >> Am Mittwoch000010, 10.09.2025 um 20:57 schrieb Paul B. Andersen:   
   > >>> Den 10.09.2025 10:40, skrev Thomas Heger:   
   > >>>> Am Montag000008, 08.09.2025 um 14:23 schrieb Paul B. Andersen:   
   > >>>>> Den 07.09.2025 10:26, skrev Thomas Heger:   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>> It simply wouldn't make sense, to find patterns in stars, which do   
   > >>>>>> not belong to the same time.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> Consider a star 10000 light years away.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> Does this star and the Sun "belong to the same time"?   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> No!   
   > >>>   
   > >>> But we sure can "find patterns" in a star 10000 ly away.   
   > >>   
   > >> You cannot find patterns in star configurations in a single star!!   
   > >>   
   > >   
   > > You snipped everything I wrote and repeat what you have said before.   
   > >   
   > > Please address the following:   
   > > ===============================   
   > > Consider a star 10000 light years away.   
   > > The spectrum of the star will tell us the following properties   
   > > of the star 10000 years ago:   
   > > its mass, temperature, if it was a new born star, a main sequence star,   
   > > or a star approaching the end of its life-   
   > > If it is a main sequence star with spectral class A0V, its lifespan   
   > > will be ~ 100 million years.   
   > > If it is a main sequence star with spectral class G2V, like the sun,   
   > > its lifespan will be ~ 10 billion years.   
   > > If it is a main sequence star with spectral class K9V, its lifespan   
   > > will be ~ 70 billion years.   
   > >   
   > > The point is that if we see that the star was a main sequence star   
   > > 10000 years ago, we can be pretty sure that it still is   
   > > a main sequence star now. The radial speed of the star will be   
   > > known by its Doppler shift, and several measurements of its position   
   > > will reveal its proper motion. That weans that we will know where   
   > > the star is now.   
   > >   
   > > We know that the Sun was a main sequence star 10000 years ago.   
   > >   
   > > Thomas Heger wrote:   
   > > | We see stars in 10000 light years distance as they were and   
   > > | where they had been 10000 years ago, while we see our Sun as   
   > > | the Sun has been 8 minutes ago.   
   > > | That is a HUGE difference.   
   > > |   
   > > | The picture we see is actually 'layered in time', while   
   > > | the universe isn't.   
   > > |   
   > > | Therefore we see things, which are not real and which do   
   > > | not belong to the same time.   
   > >   
   > > We see that the star was real 10000 years ago, and if it was   
   > > a main sequence star then, we know that it still is a real   
   > > main sequence star now.   
   > >   
   > > It is indeed a weird idea that a star that was real 10000 years   
   > > ago is not real now.   
   > >   
   > > What do you think the stars we see in the telescope are?   
   > > Mirages?   
   > >   
   > > We know that the star and the Sun were 10000 light years   
   > > from Each other 10000 years ago, and we know that the star   
   > > and the Sun still are ~10000 light years away from each other.   
   >   
   > Ten-thousand years is actually nothing in cosmology, which deals with   
   > millions of light-years.   
   >   
   > well, now we have a 'little' problem:   
   >   
   > if we have millions of years as delay, then we can't call our impression   
   > of the stars 'real'.   
   >   
   > It is like a postcard from the last century, which is delivered today.   
   >   
   > sure, the picture and the content were once real.   
   >   
   > But the sender might already be dead.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > > And for million years the two stars have transferred energy   
   > > (light) to each other, and will keep doing so for million   
   > > of years.   
   >   
   >   
   > The main problem isn't that, but that distance is very hard to estimate   
   > in cosmology.   
   >   
   > Since everything moves within our galaxy and within the rest of the   
   > universe, an error in measurement of the distance would be equal to an   
   > error in the positions.   
   >   
   > We could see a star moving to, say, the left in the foreground and a   
   > star moving to the right in the background at the same time at a   
   > relatively close position.   
   >   
   > And because it's so hard to determine the true distance, we could   
   > actually be in error, which star is in the background and which one is   
   > actually nearer to us.   
   >   
   > So we could find a relation between two seemingly close stars, which   
   > were never that close.   
   >   
   > > The stars are at any time living side by side ~10000 light years   
   > > from each other.   
   >   
   > That is't necessarily the case, just because you see two stars that way.   
   >   
   > > That we happen to live close to one of them doesn't make them   
   > > "belong to separate times."   
   > >   
   > > They are both living at the same time.   
   > 'living' is not the right phrase for pictures of stars.   
   >   
   > I meant:   
   >   
   > if you have a depth in a picture from the night sky of several thousand   
   > light years, for instance, you need to consider, that background events   
   > belong to a different time than foreground events.   
   >   
   > The discrepancy is actually huge and can easily be millions of years.   
   >   
   > Therefore pictures of the backgrond stars and the forground stars do not   
   > belong together, but should be corrected because of different delays.   
   >   
   > Unfortunately we don't know the exact delay and we also don't know,   
   > which stars are actually the background stars and which one belong to   
   > the foreground.   
   >   
   > We only assume, that some theories are valid, which enable us to   
   > estimate the distances.   
   >   
   > But those theories are most likely wrong.TH   
      
   You really are decades behind the times.   
   (and it is most of your opinions that are just plain wrong)   
      
   FYI, in the meantime we have seen the Hipparcos and GAIA missions,   
   and we have direct distance measurements (by parallax)   
   of more than a billion stars, accurate to a few percent,   
   all the way out to the galactic centre.   
   Those stars have been measured repeatedly over the 10 years of the GAIA   
   mission, so we also know their proper motions accurately.   
      
      
   We do know the delays you worry about,   
   and we do know which stars are near,   
   and which are far away.   
   We also know which stars are really double,   
   and which are aligned by coincidence.   
      
   We have an accurate 3D map of the galaxy,   
      
   Jan   
      
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