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Originally Posted by Jerry
We do not have ranging data - Signals sent from Earth and repeated back to us from Haley's comet - this is the only way to unambiguously measure distance to the level of accuracy achieved by the Pioneer probes...
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This statement is false. If an astronomer can get Halley in the eyepiece of a telescope when it's at the edge of the solar system, that astronomer knows precisely where Halley is.
We're not just talking about distance anyway, we're talking about location. But even if it was just distance, we wouldn't need to measure it with the accuracy of the Pioneer probes to show that yours and Lunatik's hypotheses are false, since you both predict a huge change in G versus the predicted value.
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Originally Posted by Jerry
and even these measurements are ambiguous if, as I have hypothesised, the speed of light is increasing with increasing distance from the sun.
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It's obvious that you like to use your ambiguous ad hoc undefined variable speed of light to patch any gaping hole in your "hypothesis", but what does the speed of light have to do with the location of Halley's comet? It's either in the predicted location or it's not. It doesn't matter how long the light took to get from there to here. If it wasn't precisely where it was supposed to be in its orbit, it would be impossible to find. Try again.