More On “Quantized” Stellar Masses
While doing research on the possibility of “quantized” stellar masses, I noticed an interesting property of eclipsing binary star systems. These systems are useful for tests of my hypothesis because the masses of these systems can be estimated dynamically, rather than requiring more model-dependent methods. Whereas individual members of the binaries deviated somewhat from the predicted preferred masses of Discrete Scale Relativity, the deviations for the two stars tended to offset each other — one high and the other low. The total masses for the systems showed far more promising agreement with the predicted masses.
Below I show the deviations from predicted total masses for a sample of binary stars systems taken from Southworth’s Detached Eclipsing Binary Catalog. These results clearly show that small deviations are far more likely than larger problematic deviations from predicted mass values. Astrophysicists, in a newsgroup discussion session, informed me that the statistical significance was too low to test the preferred mass hypothesis, and they had no interest in such a radical idea. Maybe they will turn out to be right, but I have not given up on the idea.
Colors: Green [0.0000] to [+/- 0.0233] solar mass
Red [+/- 0.0234] to [+/- 0.0466] solar mass
Blue [+/- 0.0467] to [+/- 0.0699] solar mass
Data as 10/24/14 (49 mass estimates), masses estimated to =/< 2%, systematic errors are </~ 0.03 solar mass
New research on a triple system, which included a pulsar and was used to confirm Einstein’s Strong Equivalence Principle, has just been published in Nature and has been widely reported in the media. This provides an excellent test of the phenomenon discussed above and the predictions of DSR.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.02059
Once again the masses of two of the three individual stars are slightly different from the predicted masses, but the total mass of the triple system is 2.04282 solar mass, and the relevant predicted mass of Discrete Scale Relativity is 2.03 solar mass, which agrees with the observed value at the 99.4% level.
It may take a long time before our estimates of stellar masses are accurate enough to fully test Discrete Scale Relativity’s prediction of “quantized” stellar masses, but there is hope, and vindication would have truly revolutionary implications for cosmological physics.