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I was reading this 1977 paper about a method of trying to test the speeds of light by making use of pulsars, in it the author Kenneth Brecher describes a model of a pulsar, and I'm wondering about its accuracy and I'd like to double-check.
In the second page, the left column, the upper part, he writes: "Let one of the sources emit pulses at a constant rate in its own rest frame."
And this description strikes me as rather odd, because I had thought that pulsars don't actually pulse and they just rotate continuously like a lighthouse, to use the lighthouse analogy, and in the paper Brecher seems to have described a model which pulses literally.
And so what are your thoughts on the accuracy of the pulsar model, interestingly I think that there is something significant about the description of the model, though yet at the same time it seems too significant an issue to be one for a published paper, of an MIT prof and especially in a publication such as Physical Review Letters in the 1970's
In the second page, the left column, the upper part, he writes: "Let one of the sources emit pulses at a constant rate in its own rest frame."
And this description strikes me as rather odd, because I had thought that pulsars don't actually pulse and they just rotate continuously like a lighthouse, to use the lighthouse analogy, and in the paper Brecher seems to have described a model which pulses literally.
And so what are your thoughts on the accuracy of the pulsar model, interestingly I think that there is something significant about the description of the model, though yet at the same time it seems too significant an issue to be one for a published paper, of an MIT prof and especially in a publication such as Physical Review Letters in the 1970's
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