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  Stellar aberration - again "Paul B. Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2026-05-30 14:55 +0200
    Re: Stellar aberration - again The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-05-30 10:28 -0700
      Re: Stellar aberration - again The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-05-30 10:43 -0700
    Re: Stellar aberration - again The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-05-30 12:47 -0700
    Re: Stellar aberration - again The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-05-30 22:07 -0700
    Re: Stellar aberration - again The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-05-30 22:14 -0700
    Re: Stellar aberration - again Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-05-31 12:34 +0300
      Re: Stellar aberration - again "Paul B. Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2026-05-31 13:51 +0200
        Re: Stellar aberration - again Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-05-31 18:07 +0300
          Re: Stellar aberration - again "Paul B. Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2026-05-31 20:46 +0200
            Re: Stellar aberration - again Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-06-01 11:03 +0300
    Re: Stellar aberration - again nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-05-31 22:19 +0200
      Re: Stellar aberration - again Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-05-31 22:55 +0200
        Re: Stellar aberration - again Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-06-01 11:01 +0300
          Re: Stellar aberration - again Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-06-01 10:11 +0200
        Re: Stellar aberration - again "Paul B. Andersen" <paul.b.andersen@paulba.no> - 2026-06-01 20:50 +0200
          Re: Stellar aberration - again Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-06-01 21:46 +0200
            Re: Stellar aberration - again Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2026-06-02 10:52 +0300
              Re: Stellar aberration - again Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-06-02 11:17 +0200
            Re: Stellar aberration - again "Paul B. Andersen" <paul.b.andersen@paulba.no> - 2026-06-02 13:56 +0200
              Re: Stellar aberration - again Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-06-02 14:15 +0200
                Re: Stellar aberration - again "Paul B. Andersen" <paul.b.andersen@paulba.no> - 2026-06-03 13:53 +0200
                  Re: Stellar aberration - again Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-06-03 14:20 +0200
                    Re: Stellar aberration - again "Paul B. Andersen" <paul.b.andersen@paulba.no> - 2026-06-03 15:15 +0200
                      Re: Stellar aberration - again Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-06-03 15:48 +0200
                        Re: Stellar aberration - again "Paul B. Andersen" <paul.b.andersen@paulba.no> - 2026-06-04 12:37 +0200
                          Re: Stellar aberration - again Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-06-04 12:51 +0200
                            Re: Stellar aberration - again "Paul B. Andersen" <paul.b.andersen@paulba.no> - 2026-06-04 13:39 +0200
                              Re: Stellar aberration - again Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-06-04 14:40 +0200
                                Re: Stellar aberration - again "Paul B. Andersen" <paul.b.andersen@paulba.no> - 2026-06-04 15:26 +0200
                              Re: Stellar aberration - again Chadd Babaitsev <sace@iddi.ru> - 2026-06-04 12:50 +0000
                                Re: Stellar aberration - again Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2026-06-06 09:05 +0200
                                  Re: Stellar aberration - again Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-06-06 09:25 +0200
                                  Re: Stellar aberration - again Troyonta Funakoshi <kttr@auso.jp> - 2026-06-06 11:08 +0000
                                    Re: Stellar aberration - again Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2026-06-06 23:38 +0200
                                      Re: Stellar aberration - again Abner Ustinovich <ibuvov@sbucn.ru> - 2026-06-07 08:23 +0000
                                        Re: Stellar aberration - again Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2026-06-08 08:54 +0200
                                          Re: Stellar aberration - again Newton Grünewald <dznn@ldt.de> - 2026-06-08 09:58 +0000
                                          Re: Stellar aberration - again Dylan Wyrzyk <wnyl@yzwrr.pl> - 2026-06-08 10:13 +0000
                                            Re: Stellar aberration - again phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> - 2026-06-08 07:42 -0600
                                              Re: Stellar aberration - again Andreas Amoretto <tossto@trmatad.it> - 2026-06-08 15:00 +0000
                                                Re: Stellar aberration - again phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> - 2026-06-08 09:06 -0600
                                                  Re: Stellar aberration - again Raymundo Nishikawa <iunm@aiamr.jp> - 2026-06-09 13:12 +0000
          Re: Stellar aberration - again Rommel Barakov <aelro@rmobao.ru> - 2026-06-02 12:40 +0000
      Re: Stellar aberration - again "Paul B. Andersen" <paul.b.andersen@paulba.no> - 2026-06-01 20:45 +0200
        Re: Stellar aberration - again nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-06-02 21:43 +0200
          Re: Stellar aberration - again Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-06-02 21:56 +0200
          Re: Stellar aberration - again "Paul B. Andersen" <paul.b.andersen@paulba.no> - 2026-06-03 15:10 +0200
            Re: Stellar aberration - again Deshawn Wronski <sirok@ewiiw.pl> - 2026-06-03 14:35 +0000
            Re: Stellar aberration - again nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-06-03 21:21 +0200
              Re: Stellar aberration - again "Paul B. Andersen" <paul.b.andersen@paulba.no> - 2026-06-04 12:57 +0200
                Re: Stellar aberration - again nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-06-09 21:43 +0200
                  Re: Stellar aberration - again "Paul B. Andersen" <paul.b.andersen@paulba.no> - 2026-06-10 15:10 +0200
                    Re: Stellar aberration - again Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-06-10 15:23 +0200
                    Re: Stellar aberration - again nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-06-10 21:25 +0200
                      Re: Stellar aberration - again "Paul B. Andersen" <paul.b.andersen@paulba.no> - 2026-06-11 21:36 +0200
                        Re: Stellar aberration - again Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-06-11 21:34 +0200
    Re: Stellar aberration - again Hugo Babarin <nr@nigaro.ru> - 2026-06-02 12:44 +0000
    Re: Stellar aberration - again Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2026-06-02 22:10 +0200

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#670990 — Stellar aberration - again

I have made a new version of my article about stellar aberration:

https://paulba.no/pdf/Stellar_aberration.pdf

Comments will be appreciated.

PointedEars  ?

-- 
Paul

https://paulba.no/

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#670993

Paul B. Andersen wrote:
> 
> I have made a new version of my article about stellar aberration:
> 
> https://paulba.no/pdf/Stellar_aberration.pdf
> 
> Comments will be appreciated.
> 
> PointedEars  ?
> 
> --
> Paul
> 
> https://paulba.no/


oh, you are asking for it, ain't you?

glutten for punishment..




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to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, 
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#670997

The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> Paul B. Andersen wrote:
> >
> > I have made a new version of my article about stellar aberration:
> >
> > https://paulba.no/pdf/Stellar_aberration.pdf
> >
> > Comments will be appreciated.
> >
> > PointedEars  ?
> >
> > --
> > Paul
> >
> > https://paulba.no/
> 
> oh, you are asking for it, ain't you?
> 
> glutten for punishment..

you are not fooling anybody...

it's just half-baked article.

Vaporware!


I'm suppose to fix it up for you, right?


What you want is an 'air tight' article!


And your Ai is toooo dilusional...


you don't know wats right anymore.


let me give a go at it...just for fun!


> 
> --
> The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
> to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
> and challenge the unchallengeable.

-- 
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, 
and challenge the unchallengeable.

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#671003

Paul B. Andersen wrote:
> 
> I have made a new version of my article about stellar aberration:
> 
> https://paulba.no/pdf/Stellar_aberration.pdf
> 
> Comments will be appreciated.
> 
> PointedEars  ?
> 
> --
> Paul
> 
> https://paulba.no/



This paper reads like someone discovered a calculator, got excited that
two formulas produce slightly different numbers, and then mistook that
for a revolution in physics.

1. It attacks a strawman, not relativity.

The entire setup is built around comparing a Galilean treatment of
aberration with a Lorentz treatment and highlighting a numerical
difference.

That's not a problem.

That's the expected outcome.

Relativity was invented precisely because Galilean velocity
transformations fail for light. Showing that the two frameworks give
different aberration angles is about as shocking as discovering that
Newtonian gravity and General Relativity predict different perihelion
precession values.

No physicist ever claimed they should agree.

The paper spends effort deriving a difference without establishing why
the difference is problematic.

That's not criticism.

That's bookkeeping.

2. The paper never identifies an experimental contradiction.

This is the fatal wound.

A scientific challenge to relativity requires one of two things:

    a mathematical inconsistency,

    an observational contradiction.

The paper provides neither.

It derives two predictions and notes they differ.

Then what?

Where is the measurement?

Where is the telescope data?

Where is the uncertainty analysis?

Where is the comparison against modern astrometry?

Where is the demonstration that the Lorentz prediction fails?

Nowhere.

Without that, the entire exercise collapses into:

    "Formula A gives one answer and Formula B gives another."

Congratulations. Physics has known that for over a century.

3. The geometry is engineered to manufacture a tiny discrepancy.

The paper chooses a star near the ecliptic pole and compares
observations six months apart in frames moving at relative speed (2v).
(Paul Båno)

This is a highly specialized setup designed to isolate a second-order
correction.

The Earth's orbital velocity is roughly 30 km/s.

That means:

[
\beta = \frac{v}{c} \approx 10^{-4}
]

The disagreement between Galilean and relativistic treatments appears at
order:

[
\beta^2 \approx 10^{-8}
]

That's microscopic.

The paper is essentially waving around a correction term that relativity
predicts should exist and acting as though finding it is somehow
suspicious.

It's the intellectual equivalent of discovering pennies in the
accounting ledger and declaring the company bankrupt.

4. It ignores the mountain of evidence supporting relativistic
aberration.

Stellar aberration isn't an isolated phenomenon.

The same Lorentz framework explains:

    relativistic Doppler shift,

    time dilation,

    particle accelerator results,

    GPS timing corrections,

    relativistic beaming,

    VLBI astrometry,

    spacecraft navigation.

The paper behaves as though aberration exists in a vacuum.

It doesn't.

If you're going to challenge Lorentz transformations, you inherit the
burden of explaining why thousands of independent relativistic
observations continue to work.

The paper doesn't even attempt this.

5. The argument is asymmetrical and incomplete.

Suppose the author actually wanted to overthrow the relativistic
treatment.

Then the minimum requirement would be:

    derive competing predictions,

    identify a measurable regime,

    show observations favor the alternative.

The paper stops at step 1.

That's like writing:

    "I derived a different route to Chicago."

Then never checking whether the road actually reaches Chicago.

[Garbage]

"Different prediction = relativity problem"

No.

Different prediction means different theory.

The burden is showing reality follows yours.

The paper quietly assumes the discrepancy itself is evidence.

It isn't.
"Small corrections are suspicious"

Relativity is full of tiny corrections.

Mercury's perihelion shift.

Gravitational redshift.

Time dilation in GPS.

Relativistic aberration.

Tiny effects are not evidence against relativity.

They're often evidence for it.
"Derivation equals validation"

A derivation proves only that algebra was performed.

Nature does not care how pretty the algebra looks.

Nature cares whether the prediction survives measurement.
[Incentive & Human-Behavior Landmines]
Physics is not impressed by isolated derivations.

Professional physicists see hundreds of papers every year claiming:

    relativity is wrong,

    quantum mechanics is wrong,

    cosmology is wrong.

Nearly all share the same defect:

they stop at mathematics and never connect to decisive evidence.

This paper falls directly into that trap.
Confirmation bias is doing heavy lifting.

The document is written as though the existence of a discrepancy is
itself meaningful.

That mindset is how people convince themselves they have overturned
established science when all they've actually done is compare two
equations.

[Scale, Physics & Reality Check]

Modern astrometry is absurdly precise.

Projects such as the European Space Agency mission Gaia measure
positions at microarcsecond levels. Stellar aberration is routinely
modeled as part of high-precision astrometric reductions. (arXiv)

That means any claim that the standard relativistic treatment is
fundamentally wrong is entering a battlefield already covered in
precision measurements.

The paper provides:

    no observational campaign,

    no data reduction,

    no residual analysis,

    no comparison with modern catalogs.

So its practical impact is effectively zero.

    The entire implication that "prediction difference" is evidence
against relativity.

    The absence of observational validation.

    The failure to compare against actual astrometric datasets.

    The failure to engage with existing aberration literature.

    The implicit assumption that a second-order discrepancy
automatically creates a theoretical crisis.

All of that needs rebuilding from scratch.

One thing survives:

The derivation itself is a legitimate exercise in comparing Galilean and
Lorentz transformations for stellar aberration.

As a pedagogical calculation, it's fine.

As evidence that relativity has a problem, it's toothless.


This paper doesn't wound relativity; it barely inconveniences it. It
spends pages deriving a difference everyone already expects, then
forgets to do the one thing that matters: show that reality agrees with
the author's side instead of Einstein's.









-- 
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, 
and challenge the unchallengeable.

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#671006

Paul B. Andersen wrote:
> 
> I have made a new version of my article about stellar aberration:
> 
> https://paulba.no/pdf/Stellar_aberration.pdf
> 
> Comments will be appreciated.
> 
> PointedEars  ?
> 
> --
> Paul
> 
> https://paulba.no/


This is pseudoscientific garbage dressed up with star catalogs and
half-remembered Einstein quotes — a delusional redefinition of stellar
aberration that collapses under basic physics.


1. **The "self-evident rule" is intellectual fraud**  
   The repeated claim "We will observe a star at the position in our
rest frame where it was when the observed light was emitted" and
"velocities... are irrelevant" guts the entire paper. This is not
aberration. This is a light-time correction for source motion (retarded
position). Standard stellar aberration is the apparent shift due to the
*observer's* changing velocity vector relative to the incoming light
wavefront, independent of the star's transverse velocity for distant
sources. You butchered the definition on page 1 and never recovered.

2. **Conflating proper motion displacement with aberration**  
   For ? Aurigae, you calculate ~23.5" shift over 141 years light time
from its proper motion and call *that* the aberration angle. Real annual
stellar aberration is ~20.5" *amplitude* from Earth's ~30 km/s orbital
speed, varying cyclically over one year regardless of the star's slow
proper motion (which contributes negligibly in 1 year: ~0.017" for that
star). Your numbers are off by orders of magnitude in timescale and
mechanism. This is not even wrong.

3. **Misuse of Einstein's 1905 paper**  
   You drag in Einstein's aberration formula (section 7) but apply it to
a scenario where you claim the star has significant transverse velocity
relative to the Sun, then pivot to "velocities are irrelevant."
Einstein's derivation is for relative motion between frames affecting
the wave vector direction. Your "simpler intuitive way" directly
contradicts it. Cherry-picking formulas while rejecting the underlying
relativistic (or even classical) kinematics is textbook crackpottery.

4. **Ignoring the actual observed phenomenon**  
   Annual stellar aberration produces a small elliptical path in star
positions with ~20.5" semi-major axis, discovered by Bradley in 1727 as
evidence for heliocentrism and finite c. Your model for a general star
(semi-major 20.5", minor sin?) accidentally spits out the right number
but attributes it to magic light-travel displacement instead of
v_earth/c tan? approximation. That's survivorship bias on the output
while the reasoning is rotten.


You assume light propagates in a way that the observer simply "sees the
past position" without accounting for aberration of light rays in the
moving frame — the exact thing Bradley explained with the
raindrop/telescope analogy. You assume proper motion over centuries
dominates yearly observations (it doesn't). You assume "unobservable
from the Sun" hand-waves away why telescopes on Earth *do* see and
correct for it. Massive hidden assumption that classical retarded
positions explain everything without velocity addition for light.


Real astronomers and physicists will dismiss this instantly upon seeing
the redefinition of "stellar aberration" to exclude velocity — the core
of the effect. Competitors (actual relativists) will shred it in seconds
on arXiv comments or forums. No journal touches this. Your target
audience is fringe readers who hate "establishment physics," but even
they get better crank material elsewhere. Regulators and funders? Zero
interest in funding redefined basics.


This fails at the most basic level: aberration must match v_observer/c ~
10^{-4} rad ~20.5" for Earth's orbit, observed across all stars with the
same constant (adjusted for ecliptic latitude). Your light-travel proper
motion "explanation" scales with distance and individual star velocity,
predicting wildly different "aberrations" per star and no yearly
periodicity tied to Earth's motion. It breaks immediately for stars with
negligible proper motion. Physics reality: aberration exists even for
stationary sources in the observer's instantaneous frame. Your model
requires magical irrelevance of relative velocity, violating both
classical and relativistic optics. Quantitatively, your ? Cassiopeiae
14" over 550 years is irrelevant to the 20.5" annual cycle.


The entire conceptual framework: the distinction between general
aberration and "stellar" aberration, the "self-evident rule," all
calculations attributing effect to source displacement instead of
observer velocity, the misuse of Einstein, and the conclusions claiming
"velocity of the star is not the cause." Replace with actual special
relativity treatment or even Bradley's classical explanation. The
specific star data tables are salvageable as reference but pointless
here.


Nothing. Every core claim is on fire. The observational parameters for
the stars are standard but misused.


Stop pretending you've discovered some deep insight about aberration by
redefining it into something else entirely. This paper isn't challenging
orthodoxy — it's embarrassing incompetence that wouldn't survive a
first-year astrophysics TA's red pen. Burn it and start over from
Bradley 1727.






-- 
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, 
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#671007

Paul B. Andersen wrote:
> 
> I have made a new version of my article about stellar aberration:
> 
> https://paulba.no/pdf/Stellar_aberration.pdf
> 
> Comments will be appreciated.
> 
> PointedEars  ?
> 
> --
> Paul
> 
> https://paulba.no/



This is a 13-page monument to wasted LaTeX formatting that mistakes
verbose geometric restatement for insight, ignores a century of
experimental physics that already settled this, and fundamentally
misunderstands what stellar aberration actually demonstrates about
reference frames.

---

 **1. The central claim is already experimentally falsified — and the
author doesn't engage with that fact**
The paper claims stellar aberration proves Earth moves through "absolute
space" and that this contradicts special relativity. Except we've had
**direct experimental tests** of whether stellar aberration depends on
the medium (aether, atmosphere, vacuum):
- **Airy's water-filled telescope (1871)** : aberration angle unchanged
when light travels through water in the telescope — kills any
aether-drag theory
- **Michelson-Morley (1887)** and every subsequent interferometric test:
no aether wind
- **Kennedy-Thorndike experiments** : confirmed time dilation and length
contraction are real, not coordinate artifacts
- **Ives-Stilwell (1938)** : direct confirmation of relativistic Doppler
(which this paper's Eq. 13 gets wrong)

The author waves at "Section 5" claiming relativity is wrong but
provides **zero engagement** with why these experiments didn't detect
what he claims should be detectable. That's not a paper — that's a blog
rant with equations.
 **2. The "contradiction" with relativity is based on confusing
coordinate velocity with signal velocity**
The author repeatedly treats $c \pm v$ expressions (his Eq. 6, 13) as if
they represent **actual light speed variation** in different frames.
They don't. They represent **coordinate expressions** in a non-inertial
or poorly chosen frame.

In special relativity:
- Light speed is $c$ in **every inertial frame** - Stellar aberration
arises because the **direction** of incoming light transforms under
Lorentz boosts — the velocity addition formula gives $\tan \theta' =
\frac{\sin \theta}{\gamma(\cos \theta + v/c)}$, which reduces to the
classical $\tan \theta \approx v/c$ at low $v$
- The author's Eq. 13 is just the **Doppler shift formula in the
observer's frame** — it's not evidence light "slows down," it's evidence
**frequency shifts**
The paper conflates "light arrives at angle $\theta$" with "light
traveled at speed $c \pm v$." That's freshman-level confusion.
 **3. The geometric "derivations" are just Galilean kinematics dressed
up — then falsely claimed to contradict relativity**
Every diagram and equation in Sections 2–4 uses **Galilean velocity
addition** : $\vec{v}_{\text{total}} = \vec{v}_{\text{light}} +
\vec{v}_{\text{Earth}}$. That's fine for a **first-order approximation**
(which is why Bradley got the right angle in 1727), but:
- It's **not accurate** at second order — real measurements (e.g., from
spacecraft Doppler tracking) show relativistic corrections
- The author never derives what **relativity predicts** for the same
setup, so there's no actual comparison
- Claiming "this contradicts relativity" without showing the
relativistic calculation is intellectual malpractice
 **4. The "absolute space" conclusion is a non-sequitur**
The author claims stellar aberration proves Earth moves through
"absolute space" (p. 12). But aberration only proves **relative motion
between Earth and the star** . You get the exact same aberration angle
whether you:
- Assume Earth moves and the star is stationary (heliocentric frame)
- Assume the star moves and Earth is stationary (geocentric frame)
- Use any other inertial frame

The **angle depends only on relative velocity** — that's the whole
point. The author confuses "we can measure Earth's orbital velocity
relative to distant stars" with "therefore absolute space exists."
That's like saying "I can measure my car's speed relative to the road,
therefore the road is absolute space."
 **5. Section 5's "relativity is wrong" argument is a bait-and-switch**
The author claims (p. 11) that if relativity were correct, we'd need to
add Earth's velocity "twice" (once for aberration, once for Doppler).
This is gibberish. In relativity:
- **Aberration** is a directional effect (angle change)
- **Doppler shift** is a frequency effect
- Both arise from the **same Lorentz transformation** — you don't "add
velocity twice," you apply one boost and get both effects simultaneously

The author is attacking a strawman version of relativity he invented.
 **6. Zero engagement with modern precision tests**
If stellar aberration revealed "absolute motion," then:
- **GPS satellites** (which rely on relativistic corrections to ~10 ns
accuracy) would fail catastrophically — they don't
- **Particle accelerators** (which accelerate particles to $v =
0.999999c$ using relativistic dynamics) would miscalculate energies by
factors of 1000+ — they don't
- **Binary pulsar timing** (which confirms gravitational wave energy
loss to 0.1% using GR) would be off — it's not

The author provides **no explanation** for why his "absolute space"
model is compatible with these observations.

---


- **Hidden assumption 1** : That 18th-century geometric intuition
(Bradley's derivation) is somehow more trustworthy than a century of
experimental physics that came after it.
- **Hidden assumption 2** : That "I can derive the aberration angle
using Galilean kinematics" means "relativity is wrong" — when in fact
relativity **reproduces the same first-order result** and adds
corrections this paper never checks.
- **Hidden assumption 3** : That the reader won't notice the author
never actually computes what relativity predicts, so the "contradiction"
is asserted, not demonstrated.
- **Magical thinking** : That you can overturn a theory tested to 1 part
in $10^{18}$ (modern SR tests) with a geometric argument that ignores
all experimental data post-1900.

---

 **Who is the audience?** - **Professional physicists** : Will dismiss
this in 30 seconds after seeing no engagement with Airy,
Michelson-Morley, or modern tests.
- **Undergraduates** : Might be confused, but any competent instructor
will point out the Lorentz transformation resolves everything.
- **Relativity deniers** : Will love it — but that's not a validation,
that's a red flag you're producing crank literature.
 **Why does this paper exist?** The author clearly put effort into LaTeX
diagrams and derivations. But the **absence of any experimental
discussion** suggests this is either:
- A pedagogical exercise that got misframed as a research claim, or
- Motivated reasoning from someone who decided relativity is wrong and
worked backward

Either way, no journal with peer review would publish this without major
revisions (i.e., "add the actual relativistic calculation and explain
why GPS works").

---

 **Prediction** : If this paper's model were correct:
- Stellar aberration would depend on the **medium** light travels
through (it doesn't — Airy's experiment)
- Light speed would vary measurably in different directions on Earth (it
doesn't — Michelson-Morley, modern cavity resonator tests)
- Particle accelerators would need to use Galilean kinematics (they'd
explode if they tried)
 **What we actually observe** :
- Aberration angle: matches relativity to all measured precision
- Light speed isotropy: confirmed to 1 part in $10^{15}$
- Relativistic momentum/energy: confirmed in every accelerator, every
day

The paper's model is **already ruled out by data** — the author just
doesn't mention the data.

---

 **Unsalvageable** :
- The entire "this contradicts relativity" framing (Sections 5–6) — it's
based on misunderstanding what relativity predicts
- The "absolute space" conclusion (Section 6) — it's a non-sequitur
- Any claim this is novel or challenges modern physics — it doesn't
 **What would need to be added to make this remotely credible** :
1. **Derive the relativistic prediction** for stellar aberration (it's
in every SR textbook — takes 10 lines)
2. **Show numerically** where the predictions differ (spoiler: they
don't at first order, and second-order terms match experiment)
3. **Explain Airy's experiment** — why does aberration not change when
light travels through water?
4. **Explain Michelson-Morley** — why is light speed isotropic if Earth
moves through absolute space?
5. **Explain modern tests** — GPS, particle physics, pulsar timing

Without these, this is not a paper — it's a geometric exercise with a
false conclusion stapled on.

---

 **The diagrams are clear** (Figures 1–3). If this were reframed as
"here's how Bradley derived aberration in 1727 using pre-relativistic
kinematics, and here's why that approximation works," it would be a
decent pedagogical note.
 **The math is correct within its own (wrong) framework** — the Galilean
velocity additions are done properly. The problem is the framework
itself is obsolete and the author doesn't acknowledge that.

That's it. Everything else is either wrong or irrelevant.

---


You've written 13 pages to "disprove" a theory that's been tested to 18
decimal places, using geometric arguments from 1727 that ignore
literally every experiment done since then, and your smoking gun is an
equation that's actually just the Doppler formula written in a confusing
way. This isn't a challenge to relativity — it's a self-own dressed up
in LaTeX.



and I don't have Pointed Ears even...

a golden retrevier could've told you dis.

you are wasting space on earth.


-- 
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, 
and challenge the unchallengeable.

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#671011

On 30/05/2026 15:55, Paul B. Andersen wrote:
> I have made a new version of my article about stellar aberration:
> 
> https://paulba.no/pdf/Stellar_aberration.pdf

At the end of the second sentence of the first paragraph of the section
1.2 there should be "with the observet at different times".

-- 
Mikko

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#671013

Den 31.05.2026 11:34, skrev Mikko:
> On 30/05/2026 15:55, Paul B. Andersen wrote:
>> I have made a new version of my article about stellar aberration:
>>
>> https://paulba.no/pdf/Stellar_aberration.pdf
> 
> At the end of the second sentence of the first paragraph of the section
> 1.2 there should be "with the observet at different times".
> 

As far as I can understand you are referring to the statement:
"So this is not aberration between two frames of reference
  which are moving relative to each other, but aberration between
  two inertial frames which are momentarily comoving with the star
  at different times."

I can see that the statement is awkward and possibly prone to be
misunderstood, so if you could suggest a better wording, I would
be much obliged. But I don't understand you suggestion above.

Did you mean something like:
" aberration between two inertial frames which are momentarily
   comoving with the star which are observed at different times" ?

But thanks for responding.
Any comment to the content of the article?

-- 
Paul

https://paulba.no/

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#671014

On 31/05/2026 14:51, Paul B. Andersen wrote:
> Den 31.05.2026 11:34, skrev Mikko:
>> On 30/05/2026 15:55, Paul B. Andersen wrote:
>>> I have made a new version of my article about stellar aberration:
>>>
>>> https://paulba.no/pdf/Stellar_aberration.pdf
>>
>> At the end of the second sentence of thcome first paragraph of the section
>> 1.2 there should be "with the observet at different times".
>>
> 
> As far as I can understand you are referring to the statement:
> "So this is not aberration between two frames of reference
>   which are moving relative to each other, but aberration between
>   two inertial frames which are momentarily comoving with the star
>   at different times."
> 
> I can see that the statement is awkward and possibly prone to be
> misunderstood, so if you could suggest a better wording, I would
> be much obliged. But I don't understand you suggestion above.
> 
> Did you mean something like:
> " aberration between two inertial frames which are momentarily
>    comoving with the star which are observed at different times" ?
> 
> But thanks for responding.
> Any comment to the content of the article?

Sorry, there is a typo in my comment.

Aberration is that the drection where a star is seen changes when the 
motion of the observer changes. Therefore the sentence should be "So
this is not aberration between two frames of reference which are moving
relative to each other, but aberration between two inertial frames which
are momentarily comoving with the observer at different times."

But there should be even better way to say this. The last two sentences
of the paragraph should be merged (but them perhaps split into two or
more sentences).

-- 
Mikko

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#671015

Den 31.05.2026 17:07, skrev Mikko:
> On 31/05/2026 14:51, Paul B. Andersen wrote:
>> Den 31.05.2026 11:34, skrev Mikko:
>>> On 30/05/2026 15:55, Paul B. Andersen wrote:
>>>> I have made a new version of my article about stellar aberration:
>>>>
>>>> https://paulba.no/pdf/Stellar_aberration.pdf
>>>
>>> At the end of the second sentence of thcome first paragraph of the 
>>> section
>>> 1.2 there should be "with the observet at different times".
>>>
>>
>> As far as I can understand you are referring to the statement:
>> "So this is not aberration between two frames of reference
>>   which are moving relative to each other, but aberration between
>>   two inertial frames which are momentarily comoving with the star
>>   at different times."
>>
>> I can see that the statement is awkward and possibly prone to be
>> misunderstood, so if you could suggest a better wording, I would
>> be much obliged. But I don't understand you suggestion above.
>>
>> Did you mean something like:
>> " aberration between two inertial frames which are momentarily
>>    comoving with the star which are observed at different times" ?
>>
>> But thanks for responding.
>> Any comment to the content of the article?
> 
> Sorry, there is a typo in my comment.
> 
> Aberration is that the drection where a star is seen changes when the 
> motion of the observer changes. Therefore the sentence should be "So
> this is not aberration between two frames of reference which are moving
> relative to each other, but aberration between two inertial frames which
> are momentarily comoving with the observer at different times."
> 
> But there should be even better way to say this. The last two sentences
> of the paragraph should be merged (but them perhaps split into two or
> more sentences).
> 

Of course! I missed my obvious blunder! The inertial frames are not 
comoving with the star but with the observer! Now I can't understand
how I could miss it.

Your wording of the first sentence is also better.

Thanks!

Corrected version:
https://paulba.no/pdf/Stellar_aberration.pdf

-- 
Paul

https://paulba.no/

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#671022

On 31/05/2026 21:46, Paul B. Andersen wrote:
> Den 31.05.2026 17:07, skrev Mikko:
>> On 31/05/2026 14:51, Paul B. Andersen wrote:
>>> Den 31.05.2026 11:34, skrev Mikko:
>>>> On 30/05/2026 15:55, Paul B. Andersen wrote:
>>>>> I have made a new version of my article about stellar aberration:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://paulba.no/pdf/Stellar_aberration.pdf
>>>>
>>>> At the end of the second sentence of thcome first paragraph of the 
>>>> section
>>>> 1.2 there should be "with the observet at different times".
>>>>
>>>
>>> As far as I can understand you are referring to the statement:
>>> "So this is not aberration between two frames of reference
>>>   which are moving relative to each other, but aberration between
>>>   two inertial frames which are momentarily comoving with the star
>>>   at different times."
>>>
>>> I can see that the statement is awkward and possibly prone to be
>>> misunderstood, so if you could suggest a better wording, I would
>>> be much obliged. But I don't understand you suggestion above.
>>>
>>> Did you mean something like:
>>> " aberration between two inertial frames which are momentarily
>>>    comoving with the star which are observed at different times" ?
>>>
>>> But thanks for responding.
>>> Any comment to the content of the article?
>>
>> Sorry, there is a typo in my comment.
>>
>> Aberration is that the drection where a star is seen changes when the 
>> motion of the observer changes. Therefore the sentence should be "So
>> this is not aberration between two frames of reference which are moving
>> relative to each other, but aberration between two inertial frames which
>> are momentarily comoving with the observer at different times."
>>
>> But there should be even better way to say this. The last two sentences
>> of the paragraph should be merged (but them perhaps split into two or
>> more sentences).
>>
> 
> Of course! I missed my obvious blunder! The inertial frames are not 
> comoving with the star but with the observer! Now I can't understand
> how I could miss it.

In my experience errors are mostly invisible, especially my own errors.

-- 
Mikko

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#671017

Paul B. Andersen <relativity@paulba.no> wrote:

> I have made a new version of my article about stellar aberration:
> 
> https://paulba.no/pdf/Stellar_aberration.pdf
> 
> Comments will be appreciated.

Once upon a time,
the aberration *as observed with a water-filled telescope*
was considered to be a crucial experiment. (Airy 1870)
(the observed aberration is not affected)

IIRC, Einstein is on record as having said that this experiment,
togther with the partial aether dragging of Fizeau,
was what convinced him that relativity had to be right. [1]

Your paper might be improved by adding a section or footnote
on observing the aberration under such circumstances,

Jan

[1] In other words, the addition formula for velocities
that he obtained directly from relativistic kinematics
(and nothing else)
was his first confirmation that he had to be on the right path.

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#671018

On 5/31/2026 10:19 PM, J. J. Lodder wrote:
> Paul B. Andersen <relativity@paulba.no> wrote:
> 
>> I have made a new version of my article about stellar aberration:
>>
>> https://paulba.no/pdf/Stellar_aberration.pdf
>>
>> Comments will be appreciated.
> 
> Once upon a time,
> the aberration *as observed with a water-filled telescope*
> was considered to be a crucial experiment. (Airy 1870)
> (the observed aberration is not affected)
> 
> IIRC, Einstein is on record as having said that this experiment,
> togther with the partial aether dragging of Fizeau,
> was what convinced him that relativity had to be right. [1]
> 
> Your paper might be improved by adding a section or footnote
> on observing the aberration under such circumstances,
> 
> Jan
> 
> [1] In other words, the addition formula for velocities
> that he obtained directly from relativistic kinematics
> (and nothing else)
> was his first confirmation that he had to be on the right path.


A fanatic idiot will always easily find
hundreds of confirmations that he has
to be on the right path.

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#671021

On 31/05/2026 23:55, Maciej Woźniak wrote:
> On 5/31/2026 10:19 PM, J. J. Lodder wrote:
>> Paul B. Andersen <relativity@paulba.no> wrote:
>>
>>> I have made a new version of my article about stellar aberration:
>>>
>>> https://paulba.no/pdf/Stellar_aberration.pdf
>>>
>>> Comments will be appreciated.
>>
>> Once upon a time,
>> the aberration *as observed with a water-filled telescope*
>> was considered to be a crucial experiment. (Airy 1870)
>> (the observed aberration is not affected)
>>
>> IIRC, Einstein is on record as having said that this experiment,
>> togther with the partial aether dragging of Fizeau,
>> was what convinced him that relativity had to be right. [1]
>>
>> Your paper might be improved by adding a section or footnote
>> on observing the aberration under such circumstances,
>>
>> Jan
>>
>> [1] In other words, the addition formula for velocities
>> that he obtained directly from relativistic kinematics
>> (and nothing else)
>> was his first confirmation that he had to be on the right path.
> 
> A fanatic idiot will always easily find
> hundreds of confirmations that he has
> to be on the right path.

I must believe yuo as you seem to have more exprience on this than
I have.


-- 
Mikko

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#671023

On 6/1/2026 10:01 AM, Mikko wrote:
> On 31/05/2026 23:55, Maciej Woźniak wrote:
>> On 5/31/2026 10:19 PM, J. J. Lodder wrote:
>>> Paul B. Andersen <relativity@paulba.no> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have made a new version of my article about stellar aberration:
>>>>
>>>> https://paulba.no/pdf/Stellar_aberration.pdf
>>>>
>>>> Comments will be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Once upon a time,
>>> the aberration *as observed with a water-filled telescope*
>>> was considered to be a crucial experiment. (Airy 1870)
>>> (the observed aberration is not affected)
>>>
>>> IIRC, Einstein is on record as having said that this experiment,
>>> togther with the partial aether dragging of Fizeau,
>>> was what convinced him that relativity had to be right. [1]
>>>
>>> Your paper might be improved by adding a section or footnote
>>> on observing the aberration under such circumstances,
>>>
>>> Jan
>>>
>>> [1] In other words, the addition formula for velocities
>>> that he obtained directly from relativistic kinematics
>>> (and nothing else)
>>> was his first confirmation that he had to be on the right path.
>>
>> A fanatic idiot will always easily find
>> hundreds of confirmations that he has
>> to be on the right path.
> 
> I must believe yuo as you seem to have more exprience on this than
> I have.

Oh, don't be too modest, poor fanatic idiot.
Haven't you found hundreds of "confirmations"
of being on the right path?
A fanatic idiot like yourself never has any
problems with that.

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#671026

Den 31.05.2026 22:55, skrev Maciej Woźniak:
> 
> A fanatic idiot will always easily find
> hundreds of confirmations that he has
> to be on the right path.
> 

Can you name one of the hundreds of confirmations
that you are at the right path?

-- 
Paul

https://paulba.no/

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#671027

On 6/1/2026 8:50 PM, Paul B. Andersen wrote:
> Den 31.05.2026 22:55, skrev Maciej Woźniak:
>>
>> A fanatic idiot will always easily find
>> hundreds of confirmations that he has
>> to be on the right path.
>>
> 
> Can you name one of the hundreds of confirmations
> that you are at the right path?

Well, for instance, as anyone can see here
- even such a disgusting piece of lying
shit as you are, Paul - can't lie non stop
and sometimes you admit how things really
are.

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#671029

On 01/06/2026 22:46, Maciej Woźniak wrote:
> On 6/1/2026 8:50 PM, Paul B. Andersen wrote:
>> Den 31.05.2026 22:55, skrev Maciej Woźniak:
>>>
>>> A fanatic idiot will always easily find
>>> hundreds of confirmations that he has
>>> to be on the right path.
>>>
>>
>> Can you name one of the hundreds of confirmations
>> that you are at the right path?
> 
> Well, for instance, as anyone can see here
> - even such a disgusting piece of lying
> shit as you are, Paul - can't lie non stop
> and sometimes you admit how things really
> are.

Best liars (which does not include Maciej Woźniak) don't lie much.
They are almost perfectly truthful because they want to be trusted.
They want to be trusted because otherwise their lies woutld not work.

-- 
Mikko

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#671031

On 6/2/2026 9:52 AM, Mikko wrote:
> On 01/06/2026 22:46, Maciej Woźniak wrote:
>> On 6/1/2026 8:50 PM, Paul B. Andersen wrote:
>>> Den 31.05.2026 22:55, skrev Maciej Woźniak:
>>>>
>>>> A fanatic idiot will always easily find
>>>> hundreds of confirmations that he has
>>>> to be on the right path.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Can you name one of the hundreds of confirmations
>>> that you are at the right path?
>>
>> Well, for instance, as anyone can see here
>> - even such a disgusting piece of lying
>> shit as you are, Paul - can't lie non stop
>> and sometimes you admit how things really
>> are.
> 
> Best liars (which does not include Maciej Woźniak) don't lie much.

Poor Paul can no way be the best, either  in lying
or in anything else. And other relaativistic trash
as well.


> They are almost perfectly truthful because they want to be trusted.
> They want to be trusted because otherwise their lies woutld not work.

Well, lies of physicists and their minions
worked so long that they have started to believe
that it's a Law of Nature they must be trusted.
No quality control anymore.
People still trust them by - much better
job done by their ancestors and inertia.




> 

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#671032

Den 01.06.2026 21:46, skrev Maciej Woźniak:
> On 6/1/2026 8:50 PM, Paul B. Andersen wrote:
>> Den 31.05.2026 22:55, skrev Maciej Woźniak:
>>>
>>> A fanatic idiot will always easily find
>>> hundreds of confirmations that he has
>>> to be on the right path.
>>>
>>
>> Can you name one of the hundreds of confirmations
>> that you are at the right path?
> 
> Well, for instance, as anyone can see here
> - even such a disgusting piece of lying
> shit as you are, Paul - can't lie non stop
> and sometimes you admit how things really
> are.
> 

Quite.
Here I admit how the thing stellar aberration really is:
https://paulba.no/pdf/Stellar_aberration.pdf

You will find other admissions about how thing really are here:
https://paulba.no/

But you didn't answer the question:
  Can you name one of the hundreds of confirmations
  that YOU are at the right path?

Try again?

-- 
Paul

https://paulba.no/

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