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Re: Light Slowing Down

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Keith Stein wrote:

> [The same nonsense as refuted before]

,-<http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html>
| 
| The Crackpot Index
| 
| John Baez
| 
| A simple method for rating potentially revolutionary contributions to 
| physics:
| 
|  1. A -5 point starting credit.

> […] assume that i am on a galaxy which is 10,000,000,000 light years from
> the earth. […] i shine this laser at you for a whole year. The front of
> this laser beam will take exactly 10,000,000,000 to reach you here on
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Earth […] If light decreases by my suggestion of one part in 10 billion
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> per year […]

|  2. 1 point for every statement that is widely agreed on to be false.
| […]
|  5. 5 points for each such statement that is adhered to despite careful 
|     correction.
|  6. 5 points for using a thought experiment that contradicts the results
|     of a widely accepted real experiment.

> […] the number of waves sent […]
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| 14. 10 points for each new term you invent and use without properly 
|     defining it.

> the wavelength must also have been stretched by a factor of 2.
> This is equivalent to a red-shift of 1

|  5. 5 points for each such statement that is adhered to despite careful 
|     correction.

> and corresponds reasonably well with what is found in practice.
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_distant_astronomical_objects#Notably_distant_objects>
| 
| […]
| LAE J095950.99+021219.1  z=6.944  13.03 Gly [light-travel distance] Galaxy

|  2. 1 point for every statement that is widely agreed on to be false.
| […]
|  5. 5 points for each such statement that is adhered to despite careful 
|     correction.
|  6. 5 points for using a thought experiment that contradicts the results
|     of a widely accepted real experiment.

Total: 32.  Congratulations :->


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PointedEars
-- 
“Science is empirical: knowing the answer means nothing;
 testing your knowledge means everything.”
   —Dr. Lawrence M. Krauss, theoretical physicist,
    in “A Universe from Nothing” (2009)

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Light Slowing Down Keith Stein <keithstein111@gmail.com> - 2018-03-04 16:31 +0000
  Re: Light Slowing Down Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-03-04 18:08 +0100
    Re: Light Slowing Down SolomonW <SoloomonW@citi.com.au> - 2018-03-05 19:08 +1100
      Re: Light Slowing Down Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-03-05 11:58 +0100
        Re: Light Slowing Down SolomonW <SolomonW@citi.com> - 2018-03-06 08:22 +1100
          Re: Light Slowing Down Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-03-05 22:51 +0100
            Re: Light Slowing Down SolomonW <SolomonW@citi.com> - 2018-03-06 19:08 +1100
              Re: Light Slowing Down Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-03-06 11:57 +0100
                Re: Light Slowing Down SolomonW <SolomonW@citi.com> - 2018-03-06 23:01 +1100
                Re: Light Slowing Down Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-03-06 13:56 +0100
                Re: Light Slowing Down SolomonW <SoloomonW@citi.com.au> - 2018-03-07 13:54 +1100
                Re: Light Slowing Down Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-03-07 06:57 +0100
                Re: Light Slowing Down SolomonW <SolomonW@citi.com> - 2018-03-07 17:19 +1100
      Re: Light Slowing Down Lofty Goat <rlwatkins@gmail.com> - 2018-03-11 12:52 -0500
        Re: Light Slowing Down Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-03-12 02:24 +0100
  Re: Light Slowing Down SolomonW <SoloomonW@citi.com.au> - 2018-03-05 19:06 +1100
    Re: Light Slowing Down Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-03-05 12:39 +0100
      Re: Light Slowing Down mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2018-03-05 05:38 -0800
        Re: Light Slowing Down mitchrae3323@gmail.com - 2018-03-05 12:12 -0800
      Re: Light Slowing Down mitchrae3323@gmail.com - 2018-03-05 17:33 -0800
    Re: Light Slowing Down Keith Stein <keithstein111@gmail.com> - 2018-03-05 17:18 +0000
      Re: Light Slowing Down SolomonW <SolomonW@citi.com> - 2018-03-06 08:34 +1100
        Re: Light Slowing Down Keith Stein <keithstein111@gmail.com> - 2018-03-10 21:53 +0000
  Re: Light Slowing Down mitchrae3323@gmail.com - 2018-03-05 12:39 -0800
  Re: Light Slowing Down Keith Stein <keithstein111@gmail.com> - 2018-03-19 08:59 +0000

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