Talk:Starlight problem

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Faster

I've gone faster than the speed of light. I left four years from now and just got back, (President Cheney's making a mess of Iran). CЯacke® 01:32 8 July 2011

Is this in the right section?

This was in the Omphalos section. I don't know, but it looks like it should be in the anisotropic section.

A further problem is implied by the geometry of spheres: what is the speed of light when its position and direction result in motion that is bringing it neither further from the Earth nor closer to it (the instant at which its path is tangent to a sphere defined by it and Earth)? —The Omphalos section

2.126.236.53 (talk) 15:06, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Conclusion section removal

I removed a kludgy section addition posted in November of last year, since it didn't have any relevance or add anything to the page's content beyond being a sulky "YEAH, BUT STILL" tacked onto the end of the article. If anyone feels it's absolutely necessary to entertain the argument that the SP doesn't disprove creationism, I'd suggest sticking it at the end of the page summary, with the caveat that it has no bearing on the problem in the first place. Ampharand (talk) 04:58, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

Evidence for distant stars

The lede says "The methods of measuring distances to the billions of light years are rather complicated, but there are direct measurements well beyond the limits of YEC, using only parallax.[dubious] There are the measurements of the supernova SN1987A at about 168,000 light years, and the Gaia space mission should obtain many distances of objects up to about 30,000 light years.[4]" But Wikipedia says the farthest distance that can be measured by parallax is about 300 light years[1] and the reference [4] about Gaia just links to the Gaia project page and doesn't justify the claims about what data Gaia will provide. I'm sure that there are stars more distant than 6000 light years but the article needs more work to prove that. --Annanoon (talk) 12:57, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

@Annanoon: Determining Distances to Astronomical Objects - talk.origins. — Oxyaena ^Harass 19:55, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

I've added a better link for the GAIA claim of 30,000 ly. The article seemed to suggest SN1987A was also measured using parallax, which I'm not sure about. At 168,000 ly the parallax is about 19.4 microarcseconds which is very similar to the accuracy of GAIA at 24 microarcseconds. As far as I'm aware GAIA provides the best parallax measurements at the moment, though my knowledge of the various missions is very limited. As such, I've moved it to after the GAIA claim. CPWatcher (talk) 14:08, 7 January 2022 (UTC)