Dragan Glas
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Re: æðрь áûðòÑÂý's Aether model of QM.
Greetings,
Rowbotham's "least amount of assumptions" - a flat Earth - destroys the very method he uses. Hence, his erroneous result.Talk about the fallibility of "people" - more to the point, of only one person doing it.
However, nowadays, we have lasers, and - regardless of whether the Earth is flat or not - we can shine it at the Moon and measure the time it takes for the reflected beam to return to Earth. Or, radar, which has been used to measure the distances to the Moon, Venus, Mercury - along with their rotational speeds...
Kindest regards,
James
Greetings,
With all due respect, this is arrant nonsense.æðрь áûðòÑÂý said:Rowbotham of course since his calculations take into account the least amount of assumptions. Thus are more reliable.You do realize that experiment was done in the 19th century before we could actually go up there and see what is there? So you have one paper that says the Sun is about 700 miles from Earth, and you have over 958 currently operational satellites that say otherwise, which one is more compelling?
Rowbotham's "least amount of assumptions" - a flat Earth - destroys the very method he uses. Hence, his erroneous result.Talk about the fallibility of "people" - more to the point, of only one person doing it.
However, nowadays, we have lasers, and - regardless of whether the Earth is flat or not - we can shine it at the Moon and measure the time it takes for the reflected beam to return to Earth. Or, radar, which has been used to measure the distances to the Moon, Venus, Mercury - along with their rotational speeds...
æðрь áûðòÑÂý, are you going to still insist on arguing this point?The first yield of radar astronomy was a much improved value for the distance from the earth to the moon. Using more powerful transmitters, the distances to Venus and Mercury were also measured, as well as the planets' rotational periods and gross surface properties. Even greater precision is obtained by replacing the radio transmitter with a laser. During the Apollo project, special reflectors were installed on the moon; subsequently, by bouncing laser light off the moon the distance from the earth to the moon could be determined within centimeters. Radar observations are also useful for asteroids and comets whose orbits take them relatively near the earth. Much of the surface of Venus has been mapped by unmanned probes using radar altimeters to penetrate the cloud cover.
Kindest regards,
James