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Re: My instantaneous point of view

From Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity
Subject Re: My instantaneous point of view
Date 2016-08-26 12:40 +1000
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On 26/08/2016 12:09 PM, John Gogo wrote:
> On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 9:05:34 PM UTC-5, Sylvia Else wrote:
>> On 26/08/2016 12:02 PM, John Gogo wrote:
>>> On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 8:51:28 PM UTC-5, Sylvia Else wrote:
>>>> On 26/08/2016 8:29 AM, John Gogo wrote:
>>>>> On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 1:02:30 AM UTC-5, Sylvia Else
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> On 25/08/2016 11:52 AM, John Gogo wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tuesday, August 23, 2016 at 9:54:26 PM UTC-5, Sylvia Else
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 24/08/2016 1:42 AM, John Gogo wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Monday, August 22, 2016 at 12:18:12 AM UTC-5, Sylvia
>>>>>>>>> Else wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 22/08/2016 1:39 PM, John Gogo wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On Sunday, August 21, 2016 at 10:30:11 PM UTC-5,
>>>>>>>>>>> John Gogo wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sunday, August 21, 2016 at 10:22:05 PM UTC-5,
>>>>>>>>>>>> John Gogo wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sunday, August 21, 2016 at 10:03:52 PM UTC-5,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> John Gogo wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sunday, August 21, 2016 at 9:17:46 PM
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> UTC-5, Sylvia Else wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 22/08/2016 11:42 AM, John Gogo wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sunday, August 21, 2016 at 8:31:12 PM
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> UTC-5, Sylvia Else wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 22/08/2016 9:41 AM, John Gogo wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 9:40:09
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> PM UTC-5, Sylvia Else wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 21/08/2016 6:17 AM, John Gogo
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It would take about two seconds if
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> go/come to Earth, one second if
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> one-way.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> So, not instantaneous then.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sylvia.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> No, not any signal. But, the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> observation of the "largeness of the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> screen"(determined by maximum visual
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> acuity) is instantaneous.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Suppose we had a large screen on the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Moon, but it was initially covered up.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Then, when a laser pulse hits the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> retro-reflector, the large screen was
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> uncovered. Do you maintain that the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> largeness of the screen could be observed
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> before the returning laser pulse reaches
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the Earth?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sylvia.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yes, this is what I have been trying to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> say.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Your retina is sensitive to photons. For you
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to observe the photons representing the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> largeness of the screen before the photons in
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the returning laser pulse, the former would
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> have to travel faster than the latter. Why
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> would they travel faster? How would they know
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that they should travel faster?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sylvia.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You are treating "retina" like a machine to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> measure "photons" from which the very nature
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of its' meaning is traveling. Don't think like
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> this. Think about why the object is large as it
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is and what makes this possible. Then you go
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> right away to the screen of photons. Don't do
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> this. Instead, compare the image of the screen-
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the 1,2,3 in seconds vs. the signal that the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> satellite sends back.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> This is the only way you are going to spatially
>>>>>>>>>>>>> be able to tell a time difference.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm just giving you the facts here... you can like
>>>>>>>>>>>> it or not.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> For instance, the Jupiter moon measure... I refuse
>>>>>>>>>>> to believe that the 22 minutes of the six month
>>>>>>>>>>> variation of occultation of the Jupiter's two main
>>>>>>>>>>> moons have anything to do with the speed of light. I
>>>>>>>>>>> believe the 22 minutes means something else. Now, I
>>>>>>>>>>> know what the 22 minutes means to you, but do you
>>>>>>>>>>> know what the 22 minutes mean to me?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Why would you not believe? It's an elegantly simple
>>>>>>>>>> explanation for what's observed, and is entirely
>>>>>>>>>> consistent with what we know about light. It seems
>>>>>>>>>> bizarre in the extreme for you to want to believe that
>>>>>>>>>> the cause is something else when we clearly understand
>>>>>>>>>> what's happening.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> You might as well believe in undetectable dragons.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Sylvia.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> So, you are like one in the audience during a magicians
>>>>>>>>> performance and the magician is like nature. When the
>>>>>>>>> woman appears to be sawed in half- you believe the woman
>>>>>>>>> is really being sawed in half- right?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I don't know how you get there. The fact that the
>>>>>>>> apparently sawn-in-half woman is still alive suggests that
>>>>>>>> the women-really-sawn-in-half model is flawed.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> As yet, there's nothing to suggest that the model of light
>>>>>>>> is flawed.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sylvia.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My point is we can place screens far on Earth- like the one's
>>>>>>> in famous toothed-wheel experiments- placed on mountain tops
>>>>>>> to derive a measurable quantity which proves that screens can
>>>>>>> be observed BEFORE signals.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, it's your theory. You need to do the experiment. Given
>>>>>> its conflict with the well established existing theory, no one
>>>>>> else is going to do it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sylvia.
>>>>>
>>>>> The phenomenon occurs naturally. There is evidence out there like
>>>>> the 1950's naval experiments where sight triangulation occurred
>>>>> instantly and the radar "fell short". The main problem is how
>>>>> science interprets the results.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Instead of providing vague references, which people cannot check,
>>>> why not provide links to official documents?
>>>>
>>>> Sylvia.
>>> Well, when you write the great story of physics- there tends to be
>>> predominate form of thought process. For instance, this is the so and
>>> so main theory- but it does not exist without its' paradoxes. If
>>> mankind will exist for another million or billion years, our science
>>> it bound to change. I know this sounds unconvincing and abstract...
>>> but maybe, it is the abstract that we must painfully adventure.
>>>
>>
>> It's very unconvincing. The mere fact that science will progress in the
>> future doesn't mean that any theory that emerges from a bodily orifice
>> has merit.
>>
>> Sylvia.
> So, let's talk about the meaning and limit of maximum visual acuity- do you have a problem with that, or does it seem too boring and unmeaningful?
>

I suspect you think it's mysterious. It's not. It's a result in optics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_resolution

It can also be viewed as a quantum mechanical effect - the narrower the 
lens aperture, the greater is the determination of a photon's lateral 
position. This in turns implies a greater uncertainty in its lateral 
momentum, and thus a greater uncertainty in the direction it came from.

In the context of looking at a star, this means that for the human eye, 
each photon could have come from anywhere on the star's surface (or 
indeed, quite a lot of the space around it), which makes forming an 
image of the star impossible.

Sylvia.

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