On Sun, Martin Brown wrote:

Joseph Lazio wrote:
"JS" == Jonathan Silverlight writes:
JS BTW, no-one seems to have commented on the claim in this very odd
JS paper [by O. Manuel] that the sun is a rigid structure.

What's there to comment?

There is the pressing question of why Andrew Yee forwarded something to
sci.astro that is so obviously Kookdom "science" from the lunatic
fringe. I will be charitable and assume that he did not read the
abstract. But I'd love to know which peer reviewed journal accepted this
paper!
[snip]
Regards,
Martin Brown

Well maybe you need to keep up with astro related news,
there has been a paper(s) that suggest that most spiral galaxies
DO NOT have _MASSIVE_ black holes at their center.

So this paper _may_ have been a follow-up to that premise,
to explain the mass observed in those regions.

I have posted often that small bright stars are inordinately
difficult or even impossible to see with the best telescopes and
the longest exposures, a fact that may have been misconstrued
to support the estimate of the number of black holes existing.

Even with the best telescopes it is even difficult to image
pulsars without the ability to zero in to the coordinates with
radio telescope data.

Most of the exciting stuff about General Relativity is
likely to be found in astrophysics, there isn't much new
going on on this planet.

Joe Fischer