Most of us know or at least heard of the parallax, a method to determine how far the stars are. Recently, however, many new discoveries have been made. For example, we have discovered black matter, black holes, warps, etc. We know the speed of light in the vacuum- c, or 299 792 458 m / s. But, we dont know if light moves at the same speed through space. The light can be warped due to gravity, due to black holes or just black matter. So, doesnt it proof that the parallax method is insufficient/uncorrect? We basically cannot determine how fat the stars are, we just know they are far.
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