Message #38065

[mccoy]

Steve, some academics sure tend to be arrogant like you describe, but the popularity for the researcher who would discover a dual companion of the sun would be vast.  My interpretation is simpler, namely that there is not a classic star that forms a binary system with the sun, although binary systems are pretty common. There might be some other exotic celestial body or an invisible (to the eye and to other detectors) hub of dark matter. The same Walter Cruttenden has changed a little since the last time I viewed his site, he now admits the possibility that there might be no dual of the sun, after having spent many years and so much money searching for it.