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Re: What came first the stars or the earth?

From Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity, sci.physics
Subject Re: What came first the stars or the earth?
Date 2025-09-13 09:05 +0200
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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

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