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Precisely what is the argument supporting why light speed would be variable in the vacuum of free space?

I believe that was French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier.

Centuries ago Vulcan was actually chosen for the name of a planet that was thought to exist inside the orbit of Mercury. But as it turns out there wasn't anything there.

"The speed of light does depend on the speed of the light source" - in an inertial frame of reference it does not.

I believe that a signal which is replicated is more likely to have been purposely transmitted; one that is not replicated could be from a random emission source that occurs naturally.

If the speed of light in free space was variable, then the permittivity of free space would also have to be variable (it isn't) and Einstein's special theory of relativity would be wrong.

You can read all about how these measurements were performed here: https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1985AJ.....90.1519G Maui

It sounds like you are questioning the accuracy of the distances measured among the binary star systems DI Herculis and V541 Cygni. Is that correct? Both of these binary systems have very high orbital inclinations, so it is like viewing the elliptical motion from the side. DI Herculis consists...

Unclear, thanks for providing the link. No, I had not heard of that paper. I'll take a look. Classical, you said "An un-observed and an un-measured Z displacement could be taking place." What precisely are you referring to as a "Z displacement" regarding the paper I referenced? What are you...

Correct. I have a Ph.D. in Materials Science and taught engineering at Syracuse University for about a decade. I wrote the 2011 paper that I referenced above.

The concept of dark matter was first proposed to account for observations that could not be adequately explained using the existing gravitational force laws and associated observational data. Even after decades of actively searching for it, no direct observations of dark matter have been made...

Thanks for your reply, but I'm not interested in going down that path. I'd just like to identify a college or university department that has a working computer simulation already written and debugged that is up and running. The only change that would have to be made is implementing the force law...

The following paper, published in 2011, proposes a modification to Newton's original gravitational theory that successfully accounts for the discrepancy between the observed rate of periastron advance in the detached eclipsing binary star systems DI Herculis and V541 Cygni and the values...