Is it possible that a portion of the red shift in the spectrum of stars is due to an interaction of the energy of photons with a mass component of space?

Jeff

Please visit http://home.attbi.com/~jeffocal/chapter26.htm

Is this like the "tired light" theory?

If so I believe that that theory has been discounted.

Boris2

No not entirely. There are numerous experimental observations listed at http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/tiredlit.htm that appear to discredit the tired light concept. The primary is absence of a Compton effect. However, the Compton effect would only be observed in red shifted light if energy loss were related to particle interaction.

However Shadows postulates the energy loss associated with red shift light is not due to particle interaction but to a direct relativistic conversion of energy to mass which is describe in <a href=http://home.attbi.com/~jeffocal/chapter26.htm> Chapter 26</a>. Therefore, the lack of an observed Compton shift would not discredit the shadows model because the energy loss it associates with red shifted light is not related to particle interaction. Also it is shown in chapter 26 that all of the other experimental observation that discredited the earlier versions of the tied light model do not apply to the shadows model.


Jeff

A redshift is a shift in the frequency of a photon toward lower energy, or longer wavelength. The redshift is defined as the change in the wavelength of the light divided by the rest wavelength of the light.

What kind of redshift are you talking about?

For info on other kinds of redshift visit:
http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~jh8h/glossary/redshift.htm

Popcorn8636

Shadows postulates that the Cosmological Redshift is not caused by the expansion of space but by the direct conversion of mass to energy predicted by the experimentally verified relativistic equation E=mc^2. For more information on the mechanism responsible for this energy to mass conversion, please visit http://home.attbi.com/~jeffocal/chapter26.htm

Jeff