A critical analysis of the explanation of red-shifts by a new field

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Nov 1976

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976a%26a....53...67c&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 53, no. 1, Nov. 1976, p. 67-82.

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Energy Dissipation, Particle Interactions, Photon Beams, Red Shift, Electromagnetic Fields, Electromagnetic Interactions, Galactic Radiation, Quantum Electrodynamics, Relativistic Particles, Theoretical Physics

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It has recently been suggested that a photon traveling through a photon bath loses some of its energy in accordance with a semiempirical redshift law. The present paper proves that this hypothesis has no serious theoretical foundations, that none of the experimental evidence advanced in favor of the proposed redshift law is of any decisive value, that most of the evidence is very questionable or even unreliable, and that some of the evidence actually contradicts the proposed law. Noting that photon-photon interactions cannot be responsible for the energy loss, the possibility is considered that the energy is lost in a 'hyperelectromagnetic' field produced by certain new particles which interact only with photons and themselves but not with matter. This possibility is found to be incompatible with quantum electrodynamics. It is also shown that various types of evidence involving the redshifts of different astrophysical objects and cited as favoring the proposed redshift law are based on unfounded ad hoc assumptions, lead to absurd situations, or contradict well-established observational results.

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