>>13058036>They can’t because you can’t prove distance. Irrelevant. The two estimates agree. The timeline happened like:
a) a GRB was detected along with GWs. Gamma Rays alone cannot measure the distance, they only constrain the location on the sky. At this point one could only say it was a short GRB, which have been seen up to redshift 1 (~6700 Mpc in luminosity distance).
b) LIGO/Virgo came up with estimate for the luminosity distance. This was publicly published in the GCN (40 +/- 8 Mpc). At this point there were only rough estimates of the location on the sky
c) Hours later a kilonova was found in NGC 4993. There has only been a few similar transients ever found, and none this close. NGC 4993 has a luminosity distance of 41 Mpc.
If you think Gravitational Waves don't exist then it's an incredible coincidence that these estimates agreed before anyone could possibly know. It doesn't matter if the distances are all wrong, because that would just make it even harder to randomly happen to get it right.
>You couldn’t have made things easier for me.And yet you won't answer the actual point. You just want tot tip-toe around it and jerk off your ego.
