Re: Expansion is wrong and its soooo freakin' obvious

On May 15, 7:09 am, jjs...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Why do photons lose energy?

Think of it like car with full tank of gas.

When the car drives 10 miles, it uses gas in the tank.

But it can drive at a constant speed the whole time.

Let's say the photon has a rule.

After traveling ~ 60 Mpc, the tank starts to get the low, so the
photon takes the foot of the gas.

This is OBSERVED as Hubble redshift.

The alternative explanation is expansion, where in the frequency and
energy of photons in the universe is lost.

Where does that energy go?

Well, according to Sean Carroll, it's not conserved.

So if deceleration is in hot water for not conserving energy, so is
expansion:

"Actually, there is a field of physics in which energy is not
conserved: it's called general relativity. In an expanding universe,
as we have known for many decades, the total energy is not conserved.
Nothing fancy to do with dark energy -- the same thing is true for
ordinary radiation. Every photon loses energy by redshifting as the
universe expands, while the total number of photons remains conserved,
so the total energy decreases. An effect which has, of course, been
observed. "

http://preposterousuniverse.blogspot.com/2004/05/doubt-and-dissent-are-not-tolerated.html



Where does this energy go? In what form is energy lost in?

It is used and expires.



Why don't we observe it all around us, at shorter distances?

Why don't we observe Hubble redshift at shorter distances?

Empirical reality just doesn't work that way.
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