On Hubble’s Red Shift Findings
Sven Gelbhaar
05 November 2008
“In the 1920’s astronomer Edwin Hubble began studying the Doppler shifts
of the light emitted by galaxies. … When astronomers began to study the
Doppler shifts of galaxies, they expected that each galaxy’s direction and
velocity of motion would be essentially random. Some would be approaching
us, and their light would therefore be Doppler-shifted to the blue end of
the spectrum, while an equal number would be expected to have red shifts.
What Hubble discovered instead was that except for a few very nearby ones,
all the galaxies had red shifts, indicating that they were receding from us
at a hefty fraction of the speed of light. Not only that, but the ones
farther away were receding more quickly. The speeds [apparent red-shift]
were directly proportional to their distance from us.” (Light and Matter,
Book Three, Vibrations and Waves, Benjamin Crowell, page 66-67)
We’ve previously delved into exactly why the Cosmic Microwave Background
Radiation cannot truly account for the Big Bang Theory (1) (Cosmic
Microwave Background Radiation and how it relates to Big Bang Theory, Sven
Gelbhaar), we have dispelled the notion that wave theory can be applied to
the individual photon (Contra Wave Theory in Electromagnetic Radiation,
Sven Gelbhaar), so let us now see how those two papers affect our
understanding of cosmology at large.
- From the above papers we know that the frequency of a transmission (or
radiation) is how often individual photons arrive at the receiver. We also
know that the inverse square law applies to radiation, just as it does to
the forces of physics. Moreover, we know that stars, generally speaking,
emit their radiation in a diffuse pattern, meaning that the radiation is
emitted in a more-or-less even distribution. (2)
So now let’s bring it all together. We shall imagine two stars. One is
relatively close, and the other is further away. For sake of simplicity
let us assume that they’re shining with uniform luminosity, that they’re
the same size, and have the same elemental composition. (You will note that
similar assumptions will have to be made to allow for an argument for the
Big Bang Theory using Hubble’s findings.) Now, since these stars are
spreading their light (photons) evenly, is it not more likely that you’ll
receive more photons from the closest star? (This is where the inverse
square law comes in.) The answer of course is Yes! Knowing that the
frequency of a radiation-transmission is simply how many photons arrive
within a certain amount of time, is it not obvious that the fewer photons
arriving from the more distant star would in fact appear ‘red-shifted’?
Again, the answer is Yes!
So now we see that, for identical stars, the ‘red-shift’ of their light is
merely an effect of the distance that’s in between them and us. The only
way to salvage the Doppler Shift in this field is to study if stars become
more ‘red-shifted’, as that might suggest that they’re moving farther away
from us, or it could mean that they’re simply emitting less light, and so
on, so even that application of the Doppler Shift stands on shaky
ground.With this argument (in conjunction with Cosmic Microwave Background
Radiation and how it relates to Big Bang Theory) we have completely
debunked the Big Bang Theory, and it is once again open season on the
scientific model as pertains to the cosmos.
References
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_bang_theory , 05 November 2008
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star#Radiation , 05 November 2008