Red Shift caused by space itself ?

[nigel johnstone]

"Red Shift" caused by space itself ??

Perhaps the distant objects are not receding at all.
If "space" is not empty, but rather is a complex structure,
probably containing energy which can be released (wouldn't
we just love to know how), then as light "waves" - I prefer
to call them emanations - proceed through vast tracts of
structured "empty" space, perhaps the light is "tugged" by
the structure. This tugging would affect the red end of the
spectrum more than the UV end... thus causing a red shift.
N'est-ce pas ?

This structure of "empty" space can be shown capable of
producing opposite particles under stress.
That is... apply force to the structure and out pop particles-
albeit ones which "cancel" each other out, it is true.

If space can be distorted (by massive objects) then it must have
some kind of structure.
If there was literally nothing there, it could not be "bent" (as
in Einstein's "rubber sheet" example of orbits.
N'est-ce pas ?

Ergo, light passes through a structure that could impede its progress
or distort its progress.

 

[europium]

Let me get this right...

Are you saying that space is expanding and the objects arent actually tavelling away, or that space isn't expanding and it just affects light to make it appear as though space is expanding?! Because if its the first one, you shouldn't be on these forums! If it's the second one... very unlikely

 

[shrumeo]

look up Halton Arp

www.electric-cosmos.org/arp.htm