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Keep thinking and expressing, David.
We don’t always have to agree, but your thinking, and expressing said thinking, matters.
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From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Of David Webster
Sent: May 15, 2020 5:58 PM
To: Naturens
Subject: [NatureNS] Expand Universe or Tired Light
Hi Patrick & All,
Thanks Patrick for the detailed explanation of the Big Bang. In
bare outline the Hubble Constant, amount of red shift is proportional to
distance between source and observer, and this is taken as proof that
the universe is expanding. But is an expanding universe the only way to
account for these observations ?
Experience with the properties of light from nearby sources has led
to the assumption that light, an electromagnetic wave, can travel
billions of years through magnetic fields, or electric fields without
modification or loss of energy. But how can one be sure that light can
travel for billions of years without some consumption or loss of
photon/wave energy ?
The objection that no attrition of photon energy over time,
regardless of medium properties or travel time, is know to occur is not
valid because the Hubble effect might be due to such attrition and not
an expanding universe.
And, with math proficiency degraded by moth, time and rust to
about grade 8 level I am not in any position to debate this subject.
Just express doubts about interpretation.
But falling back on an old saying, as a Parthian shot; "Discovery
is seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has
thought."
Yt, DW, Kentville
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