Trevor Underwood

Gebundenes Buch

Cosmological Redshift of Light

Beschreibung

This book addresses the cause of the cosmological redshift of light, currently assumed to be due to the Doppler effect on light resulting from the expansion of the universe following the Big Bang. However, there is an alternative less radical theory. Fritz Zwicky's "tired-light" theory attributes the linear cosmological redshift with distance from the observer to the loss of energy by photons, and consequent increase in wavelength, resulting from interactions between the photons and intervening electrons or matter whilst travelling through intergalactic space. Arthur Compton's paper [Compton, A. H. (May, 1923). A Quantum Theory of the Scattering of X-rays by Light Elements] confirmed that the scattering of electrons by X-rays or ¿-rays results in a redshift due to the transfer of energy from the photons to the scattered electron. For electromagnetic radiation from remote galaxies observed from the Earth, travelling through intergalactic space known to contain electrons and other matter, this also results in a linear increase in the redshift with the distance travelled by the photons. It is possible that both phenomena contribute to the observed cosmological redshift of light, but the current volume concludes that the loss of energy by photons is sufficient. There was no Big Bang, the universe is not just 13.8 billion years old, but is indefinitely old, and in a steady state, not expanding.

Autor

Trevor Underwood was born in England in 1943; and became a US citizen in 2004. He earned a M.A. (Cantab.) in mathematics and physics at Clare College, Cambridge University, in 1965, and a M.Sc. (Econ.) in economics at the London School of Economics in 1967, followed by further graduate studies in international economics at the University of Rochester, NY, and at Harvard University, from 1967 to 1969. He worked for the Bank of England, the International Monetary Fund, and the UK Treasury and was a UK Advisor to the Committee of Twenty on Reform of the International Monetary System, from 1969 to 1973. He founded a treasury consultancy business in 1974 and a treasury software company in 1976, which he continued to run until 2017. In 2008 he returned to scientific research. In November 2015 he published a paper "A new model of human dispersal" on bioRxiv.org, the online preprint archive for biology run by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Between December 2015 and November 2019, he worked on climate science, during which time he wrote six climate science papers. In November 2019, these were published in a book "The Surface Temperature of the Earth", distributed by Lulu.com.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lulu Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9798218551452
• Artikelnr.: 72325263