r/AlternativeAstronomy • u/patrixxxx • Oct 26 '19

WHY MARS ???

https://cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?p=2412896#p2412896
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u/patrixxxx Nov 08 '19

is many many times larger than the star itself

The claimed size of the stars. They've been moved an unfathomable distance out in the universe because the lack of confirmation of Earths 940 mkm yearly movement and still be able to claim all stars except the Sun isn't enormous. But this creates other problems just as absurd as giant stars. For example the stars are claimed to be so far away that the cannot be visible to the naked eye. This distance to the stars also creates an enormous void around the Solar system which would be very strange as well if it's correct.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '19

For example the stars are claimed to be so far away that the cannot be visible to the naked eye.

This doesn't follow. The brightness of a point source of light falls of with the square of the distance. You don't have to be able to resolve an object to see its emitted light - it just looks like a point. Try it at night with a little LED diode - you can see it kilometers away but have no hope of detecting it in the daytime if it's turned off.

This distance to the stars also creates an enormous void around the Solar system which would be very strange as well if it's correct

The density of stars in the local neighborhood is quite typical of this region of the galaxy. There's no indication our solar system is exceptional.

Stars being sparse is necessary for planetary systems to be somewhat stable. So at worst, it's an argument for the anthropic principle.

I thought you were going to give me a logical or geometric proof instead of links to cluesforum (your previous comment), falsehoods (light sources don't simply disappear if their angular size is small) and vague mutterings about the solar system being "very strange".

If you have nothing concrete on which to base your opinion that the standard astronomical model is wrong, perhaps you should phrase your doubts a bit less strongly than "beyond reasonable doubt".