Reply To: Proliferation?

[MARK LOFTS]

Dear Pluto,

Unfortunately you have misunderstood what I was saying. When I wrote of ‘galactic recession’ I mean that the distance between us and any redshifted galaxy indicates that that galaxy is receding from us. I am not claiming that this is Big Bang-type expansion. Rather I wish the readers to reconceive what is going on with this large scale mutual galactic recession.

Rejecting any idea that space can somehow expand – which is what is meant by “the expanding universe” – I assert instead that space is infinite and Euclidean. Space does not expand nor contract but the measures of distance in it are objective.

From what you say you too are also anti-Big Bang but if you refuse the interpretation of the redshift as a measure of galactic recession and distance then you are caught in Olbers’ Paradox trying to explain the dark sky in an infinitely old universe. My theory tries to avoid all these pitfalls – so please reread my submission with this new proviso in mind.

Remember that if one invokes ‘tired light’ to explain the redshift instead, this invokes not only a redshift with distance nevertheless but also brings up the question as to what is happening to all the energy which is somehow being lost by the countless photons as they ‘redshift’ while traveling through space. Please also look at my other posts to see where I am coming from,

Thank you for your interest. I hope you post again to clear up details here,

Yours faithfully

Mark Lofts