Re: [ATM] Large Amateur Telescope

["matt" <mariusrf@bellsouth.net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Miller <tommy81@comcast.net>
To: atm@atmlist.net <atm@atmlist.net>
Date: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: [ATM] Large Amateur Telescope


>What we are trying to do is measure the speed of redshifted (quasar) light.
>
>Why?  Because there is an old version of General Relativity (de Sitter) for
>which light is both redshifted and slowed at large distances.  We think
>this version has been overlooked, and we wish to test it against the
>Standard Model.  The quasar lightspeed measurement is the best way we can
>think of to differentiate these two theories, to make a test with an
>observable that clearly favors one or the other model.  De Sitter predicts
that
>
>(quasar lightspeed) = c/(1+z).
....

de Sitter's views definitely were ahead of his time (by claiming that GR
could be valid only if the universe were expanding , claim rediscovered
independently later by Friedman ) , when Einstein himself supported the
steady state theory. But no matter how far ahead of his time he might've
been, he had no idea quasars existed , he couldn't have possibly predicted
anything about quasar lightspeed. What part of de Sitter's work are you
referring to and how is it applicable to quasar light ? And why quasars and
not Cepheids, supernovas , or something else ? Is there any place your paper
is available without a paid subscription ?

best regards,
matt tudor


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