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Message 16 of 56 (592502)
11-20-2010 2:38 PM
Reply to: Message 15 by jar
11-19-2010 8:53 PM


The Argument Could be Made
It would look like it does now. However, our physics would be very different.
We'd have to have a physics that could explain many correlations that make sense if the stars behave as object do on Earth; i.e., perspective: parallax: distance: size: brightness: temperature: wavelength, but seem to be unrelated properties in space assuming a field depth of 6 kly.
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Message 18 of 56 (592516)
11-20-2010 3:11 PM
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11-20-2010 2:53 PM


Re: The Argument Could be Made
There is night; so, yes.
I've been unable to find the source, but I remember something somewhere sometime a story, and it might have been about Richard Feynman, wherein someone was saying to him "It was a rational hypothesis that the Sun went round the Earth as that is what it looks like." And Feynman (?) asked "And what would it look like if the Earth went round the Sun?"
As we are able to look up at the stars at night they must be either tiny things or be contained in a much larger volume. If they are big in a small volume we wouldn't be.
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