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1999 01 08..
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The January article about an accelerating universe was indeed thought provoking. My initial reaction was that this is counter intuitive. That reaction seems to be shared by SCIAM editors looking at the cover page of the SCIAM 1-99.
I was struck by the illustration of the rubber band and the two elements of force demonstrated. The elasticity of the rubber band intended as analogues to the red shift of light but also the nails holding the rubber band. There I saw gravity. Could the gravitational force of the source and the gravitational force at the target combine to impact the red shift? Is it correct to assume that all of the red shift is an attribute of speed?
Gravity does have an impact on light in terms of bending and in the old axiom that a black hole's gravitational force is so strong that light itself cannot escape from within the event horizon. Could gravity's bending and restraining of light be applied to the source pulling or stretching the light and the pulling or stretching of our local gravity sources such as the earth, sun, moon, Jupiter, milky way, each at inverse square rates have any impact on red shift?
We use the earth's gravity to sling shot our probes to their destinations. Voyager was accelerated by Jupiter on its way to the outer parts of our local system. Could the intervening objects influence the shift?
Quasars are said to be fastest, largest and most distant, yet observations from Keck last year showed a blue shifted hydrogen cloud on the other side of a quasar. This observation is the death of the 1948 Big Bang model and encouraging news for the 1980 Inflationary model. Has there been any effort to build a sky map by position, red shift numbers, luminosity, and type? If so is there a web link to it? Like the COBE and Far Infrared Space Telescope (FIRST) observations that changed our idea of the geometry of the universe, this map might yield some interesting discussions as well.
In looking in the summer sky at the milky way and the surrounding stars, and factoring in our understanding of the gravitational lens, are those stars that I see actually at the coordinates they appear to be? The light from those stars is bent by every piece of matter in the universe to one
degree or another. Some stars we see around the milky way are actually behind it.
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