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Re: SUPERLUMINAL NEUTRINOS AND TIRED LIGHT
Posted:
Nov 28, 2011 1:54 AM
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http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~george/ay21/readings/Luminet_BBcosmo.pdf
Jean-Pierre Luminet: "The great novelty was that Lemaître provided the
first interpretation of cosmological redshifts in terms of space
expansion, instead of a real motion of galaxies: space was constantly
expanding and consequently increased the apparent separations between
galaxies. This idea proved to be one of the most significant
discoveries of the century."
Should this "most significant discovery" be worshipped, Jean-Pierre
Luminet? It is based on the assumption that the expanding space
somehow stretches the wavelength of light so as to produce a redshift
identical to the classical redshift that would be produced in the case
of "a real motion of galaxies". Is the assumption reasonable, Jean-
Pierre Luminet? Perhaps it is just idiotic? Of course this discussion
is forbidden in Einsteiniana (you will remain silent forever) but "le
commun des mortels" does react to the idiocy sometimes:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=2011-nobel-prize-in-physics-11-10-04
Frank Atkinson (comment 6): "I warmly applaud the accurate
observatonal work of the prize winners - on supernovae. However, the
Prize was awarded on the grounds of the work showing that the Universe
is expanding at an accelerating rate but this is merely conjectue
based on the prior guess that the Universe is actually expanding. It
seems reasonable to expect the elimination of prior guesswork before
handing out prestigious Prizes. All the facts relied on for an
expanding Universe have alternatie explanations. For example we know
the redshift is not due to the Doppler effect. or we would have to be
at the centre of the Universe. Problematically, the Doppler effect is
the only proved redshift effect caused by motion, others are
guesswork. However, a model called the cosmological redshift, has been
fabricated, to make the redshift be a measure of a notional expansion.
This relies on the expansion being produced by space itself stretching
and pushing galaxies apart. The redshift is then said to be caused by
the expanding space, stretching the wavelength of light as it passes
through it. There is no known method for either space to stretch and
expand or for it to stretch light as it passes through it. This model
is pure metaphysical speculation."
Pentcho Valev wrote:
Justification of the "tired light" (or "slowed light") hypothesis:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-scientists-vacuum.html
"In fact, the vacuum is full of various particles that are
continuously fluctuating in and out of existence. They appear, exist
for a brief moment and then disappear again. Since their existence is
so fleeting, they are usually referred to as virtual particles."
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-researchers-create-light-from-almost.html
"The thinking goes that in any vacuum, virtual particles come into
existence and then disappear on a constant ongoing basis; and they do
so in waves. The Casimir effect proposes that if two very tiny mirrors
were to be placed very close together; close enough that the distance
between them would be smaller than the length of some of the virtual
waves, a force would be created as the number of particles outside of
the space between the mirrors grows higher than the number that exists
between them, causing a pull on the mirrors, dragging them closer
together."
If virtual particles can exert a force on mirrors, it is reasonable to
assume that they can exert a force on travelling photons thereby
decreasing their energy (speed):
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-physics-einstein.html
"Yet quantum theory suggests that space should be grainy at the
smallest scales, like sand on a beach. (...) According to
calculations, the tiny grains would affect the way that gamma rays
travel through space."
For the moment the final conclusion:
"Hubble redshift due to decreased speed of light; static, not
expanding, universe"
is prevented by crimestop:
http://www.liferesearchuniversal.com/1984-17
George Orwell: "Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as
though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It
includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive
logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are
inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of
thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction.
Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity."
Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com
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