Re: A fundamental Doppler-like frequency scaling effect proportional to source distances

Dear earthshrink:

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At the 2006 March Meeting of the APS in Baltimore
(abstract R9.00015 ), I'll be reporting discovery of a
hitherto unanticipated mundane optical effect that
may have been responsible all along for the Hubble
redshifts and the cosmological acceleration,
Pioneer anomaly, etc. The object was not to
"explain" the redshifts differently - rather, it
concerned the subtle circularity that our physical
units of scale depend on atomic frequencies, and
in turn determination of the latter depends on the
constancy of linear dimensions in spectrometers
and interferometers.

Be prepared to explain why Type Ia supernovae have the duration
of their "flares" redshifted proportional to their red shift. If
you think you can wash away red shift with your proposed trick,
you'll need to wash away more than just that.

http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0104382
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0305008

David A. Smith


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