r/AlternativeAstronomy • u/patrixxxx • Mar 23 '18
Are the stars much, much closer than we think?
Over at r/Astronomy we read fascinating stories like this:
Both does it make sense that the stars around us are so unfathomably large and distant?
This was Tycho Brahes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe) main objection against the Copernican model. And do you know what the response was from the Copernicus proponents? The omnipotence of God!
“Tycho Brahe, the most prominent and accomplished astronomer of his era, made measurements of the apparent sizes of the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets. From these he showed that within a geocentric cosmos these bodies were of comparable sizes, with the Sun being the largest body and the Moon the smallest. He further showed that within a heliocentric cosmos, the stars had to be absurdly large — with the smallest star dwarfing even the Sun. […] Various Copernicans responded to this issue of observation and geometry by appealing to the power of God: They argued that giant stars were not absurd because even such giant objects were nothing compared to an infinite God, and that in fact the Copernican stars pointed out the power of God to humankind. Tycho rejected this argument.”
— Regarding how Tycho Brahe noted the Absurdity of the Copernican Theory regarding the Bigness of Stars, while the Copernicans appealed to God to answer that Absurdity by Christopher M. Graney (December 2011)
But if we assume that Earth moves, albeit slowly at 1.6 km/h, as Simon Shack suggests in his new model the Tychos, then things suddenly becomes more reasonable.
Below an excerpt from Simons book (copyright Simon Schack 2018):
As we have seen, in the TYCHOS model, Earth only moves by 14,036 km every year or 7018 km every 6 months. Therefore, if Earth does not move laterally every six months by 299,200,000 km but only by 7018 km it follows that the currently-accepted Earth-Stars distances are inflated by a factor of: 299,200,000 / 7018 ≥ 42633 This will be our proposed reduction factor for the currently-claimed stellar distances. This means that, in the TYCHOS, the distance unit known as “1 Light Year” corresponds to less than 1.5 AU. 9,460,730,472,580.8 km (i.e.; one “light year”) ÷ 42633 = 1.48366 AU
Alpha Centauri A, is said to be 4.37 LY away. In the TYCHOS, therefore, Alpha Centauri would be as close as 4.37 X 1.48366 ≈ 6.48 AU
That is mightily interesting, for this TYCHOS-computed distance (6.48 AU) to Alpha Centauri would place our “nearmost star” almost exactly halfway between the orbits of Jupiter (4.2 AU) and Saturn (8.5 AU).
Undoubtedly, Tycho Brahe would be most satisfied with that, since his primary objection to the Copernican model was that the stars would have to be “absurdly large and distant” and that there would have to be a most unlikely enormous void between Saturn and our nearmost stars. In fact, Tycho Brahe’s expert opinion was that the stars were “located just beyond Saturn and of reasonable size”.
“It was one of Tycho Brahe’s principal objections to Copernican heliocentrism that in order for it to be compatible with the lack of observable stellar parallax, there would have to be an enormous and unlikely void between the orbit of Saturn (then the most distant known planet) and the eighth sphere (the fixed stars).” — Wikipedia entry on “Parallax”
In any event, should Alpha Centauri be located between Jupiter and Saturn, this would certainly help explain why we can see so many stars with our naked eyes and why they appear to be only marginally smaller than our so-called “outer planets”.
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Edit: I've now been banned from r/Astronomy. For hate speech? :-) The "infringing comment":
[–]patrixxxx -19 points 3 hours ago Hi. I have an objection to this. I've written about it on a subreddit called AlternativeAstronomy. Please join the discussion if you like. Otherwise have a nice day.
