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- From: metares@well.sf.ca.us (Tom Van Flandern)
- Subject: Re: Big Bang Alternates
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:12:28 GMT
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- schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher) writes:
-
- > Given the lack of a velocity-independent explanation for redshift, the
- > total absence of blueshifts outside the Local Group damns any
- > steady-state theory.
-
- I'm not arguing for SS, but just commenting on your statements about
- redshift mechanisms and blueshifts.
-
- Velocity is a redshift-blueshift mechanism. Other mechanisms are
- redshift-only. Examples are tired light and gravitational redshifts.
- Several redshift-only mechanisms work very well for alternate cosmologies.
-
- A. Ghosh lists 20 non-velocity redshift mechanisms in Table 1 of his
- paper, "Velocity-dependent inertial induction: a possible tired-light
- mechansim," Apeiron 1, #9-10, pp. 35-44 (1991). These have been proposed
- by different authors from 1917 to 1986, starting with Einstein. A few more
- have appeared in the past three years.
-
- The best known of these is "tired light." Basically, anything that
- causes energy loss to the photons as they travel through space produces a
- redshift. Feynman made a general argument against tired light theories
- (before "dark matter" was hypothesized) that is still quoted. He said that
- if the photons encounter any known quantum particles, they will be
- deflected enough that images of distant galaxies must arrive fuzzy, not
- sharp, due to the slight scattering of their photons that produces their
- redshift.
-
- Today, I think no one would make such an argument in the face of
- evidence that dark matter (the dominant ingredient of the universe in the
- big bang theory) is still unidentified. All that is needed to overcome
- Feynman's argument is resisting entities individually so small that the
- energy loss to photons is smooth and continuous, not in discrete collision
- events with quantum-sized particles. Dark matter is perfectly capable of
- making tired light the theory of choice for the cosmological redshift
- mechanism. -|Tom|-
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- Tom Van Flandern / Washington, DC / metares@well.sf.ca.us
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