This bunch of words is apparently an Australian speaking a fair bit about red shifts, er, from an unusual perspective. It makes for interesting reading; for example...
If the universe is expanding, and if this expansion is causing the redshift, then we should be seeing redshift measurements all the way from zero to the farthest measurement seen in a series of smoothly increasing numbers. It should look like a car accelerating along a freeway, going smoothly from entry speed up to the speed limit.
But that is not what we see in the redshift measurements. What we see are a small series of jumps. The measurements are sort of clumped together and then there is a jump, or jerk, to a new set of measurements, with nothing gradual in between.
How strange! Is the universe expanding in jumps and starts? That's hard to cope with. Especially when some of these redshift groupings split right in the middle of some galaxies! Which they do.
If the universe is NOT expanding, what is causing the redshift? And the jumps we see? What is REALLY going on?
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If you take a container of some sort, and get rid of every atom and particle in it, we have a vacuum, right? Well, yes, but there is still heat energy producing radiation. OK, now turn down the thermostat. To absolute zero. No heat energy left.
Problem: there is still radiation energy which can be measured in your container. A lot of it! Because it is in evidence at zero mark on the Kelvin thermometer — absolute zero, no molecules can move here — it is called the Zero Point Energy, or ZPE for short.
They found a way to measure it. They found a couple of ways to measure it.
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Then another problem popped up. These measurements indicated it was increasing. Why? What was going on?
When we are in school, be it high school physics or college or university, one of the things we NEVER hear is the idea that some of the atomic constants might not be so constant. This absolute 'constancy' is the backbone of a good part of physics today.
It was not always so. Up until 1941, the subject of the varying measurements that were being seen on some of the constants was one of the major topics in the journals concerned with this sort of thing. A number of things were showing unexplained changes. One of them was called Planck’s constant. That measured the ZPE. It was increasing. Another one was the speed of light. That was decreasing. An interesting note popped up here: the speed of light MULTIPLIED by Planck’s constant was always the same. As one went up the other went down in a precise inverse ratio.
When we got around to being able to measure the mass of an electron, lo and behold, that appeared to be changing, too!
Not only that, both Planck’s constant and the mass of the electron are STILL being measured as changing.
What about the speed of light? Well, ever since they decided to measure it by other atomic constants, it has not appeared to be changing at all. But think about it, if you measure one changing constant by a constant that is changing in conjunction with it, you are not going to get a measured change in the first, are you?
So what is going on? Just a series of mistakes where measurements of redshifts and atomic masses and Planck’s constant and the speed of light are all concerned? Or is there something affecting all of this together?
The key to all of this appears to be in the ZPE, the Zero Point Energy, and its increase with time. But where is it coming from? What has caused it?
More questions in there than this dented and soft little brain can think all of the way through in one session. Have fun! (-:
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