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Andrev
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Hi,
I figured out a thought experiment/problem, here it is:
A friend of mine is living in a galaxy far away. He has a machine which can make individual photons with a definite frequency (lets say blue light) and can emit them toward me. Here I have machine which can detect these photons and can tell their frequency. While they get here their wavelength increase because of the Doppler effect and the cosmological redshift. So I detect red light instead of blue.
If I calculate the energy of the photon (E=hf) when it was emitted and when I detected it, there will be a difference between the results. Where is the missing energy?
I figured out a thought experiment/problem, here it is:
A friend of mine is living in a galaxy far away. He has a machine which can make individual photons with a definite frequency (lets say blue light) and can emit them toward me. Here I have machine which can detect these photons and can tell their frequency. While they get here their wavelength increase because of the Doppler effect and the cosmological redshift. So I detect red light instead of blue.
If I calculate the energy of the photon (E=hf) when it was emitted and when I detected it, there will be a difference between the results. Where is the missing energy?