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PeterDonis replied to the thread Undergrad Hubble Constant, Dark Energy and the Expanding Universe.Thread closed for moderation. -
PeterDonis replied to the thread A question about quantum entanglement.Unless by "spooky action at a distance" one means "violations of the Bell inequalities". -
PeterDonis replied to the thread Undergrad Cosmological Redshift and Expansion.This is your personal opinion, not physics. GR, as a physics theory, gives you what I said. No more. -
PeterDonis replied to the thread High School Dark energy might not be constant after all.A number of posts have been deleted. The thread topic has been sufficiently addressed and the thread will remain closed. -
PeterDonis replied to the thread Undergrad Cosmological Redshift and Expansion.The "mechanism" is that the light travels on null geodesics of the (curved) spacetime geometry. That's all there is to it, according to... -
PeterDonis replied to the thread Undergrad Cosmological Redshift and Expansion.As I've pointed out, the frequency shift between comoving observers tells you by what factor the scale factor has increased, which bears... -
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The ultimate cause is always that the inner product of the light's four momentum with the four velocity of the emitter is different from... -
PeterDonis replied to the thread Undergrad Cosmological Redshift and Expansion.I disagree, because I think one "essential feature of Doppler" is well-defined relative motion between emitter and receiver that has... -
PeterDonis replied to the thread Undergrad Cosmological Redshift and Expansion.There is no local inertial frame that covers both observers. -
PeterDonis replied to the thread Undergrad Cosmological Redshift and Expansion.Would you call the gravitational redshift between two observers, both hovering at rest at different altitudes above a gravitating body... -
PeterDonis replied to the thread Undergrad Cosmological Redshift and Expansion.As I've already said, this is a question about words, not physics. People make different choices of how to describe physics in words... -
PeterDonis replied to the thread A question about quantum entanglement.Moderator's note: Several off topic posts arguing about "explanation" vs. "description" have been deleted. -
PeterDonis replied to the thread High School Anyone come across this new YouTube channel?.The observable universe is always finite, regardless of whether the universe as a whole is. So if you meant "observable universe", your... -
PeterDonis replied to the thread Graduate Does PSG require a lattice and a fundamental Hamiltonian?.You could try reaching out to some of the authors of the papers you reference, as you did with the question in your other thread. -
PeterDonis replied to the thread High School Anyone come across this new YouTube channel?.The observable universe is finite and its size is increasing, and the title might be referring to that (though it's hard to tell--again...