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| Fig. 1 Image origin |
I. Background
Before a solar originated photon current reaches the oceans and is still in deep space, astronomers can do photon polarizing and other activities such as spectroscopy:
"The realisation that light could harbour information about celestial objects came thanks to the work of the German glass-maker Joseph von Fraunhofer. In 1814 he dispersed the Sun’s light into a rainbow of colours – known as a spectrum – discovering numerous dark absorption lines that were later found to betray the composition of our star.
With the subsequent development of spectroscopes to view – and spectrographs to record – celestial spectra and the lines they contained, astronomers had a means to examine the make-up of stars."
(Sky At Night). Not only that, there is no substantial doubt that these photon currents (starlight, including infrared photons) can be put through a polarizer as well (The Photon Current - 12).
II. The Origin Of Disagreement About Spectra
However, fundamental disagreements arise with the interpretations given to the spectral lines that appear in these spectra (Fig. 1).
Nevertheless, substantial portions of current scientific theory stem from the observations of such photon currents in deep space even though there is disagreement as to what the 'absorption lines' really mean and where everything originates:
"The contradictions between Big Bang theory predictions and observations are not at all limited to those that have been widely dubbed a “Crisis in Cosmology”. Despite the continuing popularity of the theory, essentially every prediction of the Big Bang theory has been increasingly contradicted by better and better data, as shown by many teams of researchers. The observations are, on the other hand, consistent with a non-expanding universe with no Big Bang. The real crisis in cosmology is that the Big Bang never happened."
(The Scientific Evidence Against The Big Bang, emphasis added). It is like the popularity of "genieology" a.k.a. genealogy that is currently going through an uh-oh/oops revolution (On The Origin of Genieology - 6).
III. The Nitty Gritty of Red-Shift
In the noise of argument about the Big Bang the signal has been long lost (No Signal? Just Noise?).
The signal is the red-shift/blue-shift in the photon spectra:
"In physics, a redshift is an increase in the wavelength, and corresponding decrease in the frequency and photon energy, of electromagnetic radiation (such as light). The opposite change, a decrease in wavelength and increase in frequency and energy, is known as a blueshift, or negative redshift. The terms derive from the colours red and blue which form the extremes of the visible light spectrum."
(Redshift, emphasis added). Notice that the "signal" in phenomenon is about a change in the photon's energy, while the "noise" is the interpretation that motion a la the "Doppler Effect" is the cause of the shift.
The Doppler effect was based on things that never travel the speed of light (sound) and on waves that did not change in energy of the molecules bouncing off one another.
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| Fig. 2 Photon Energy |
The red-shift in light photons is a change in the energy of individual photons which is a well known value (Fig. 2).
Getting back to the 'signal', let's reconsider the laws of thermodynamics which apply to the change in the energy of the photon as it travels in space.
What force or source causes the change in a photon's energy, i.e. the change in wavelength and frequency?
The laws of thermodynamics indicate:
"The first law of thermodynamics states that, when energy passes into or out of a system (as work, heat, or matter), the system's internal energy changes in accordance with the law of conservation of energy."
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"The law of conservation of energy states that the total energy of an isolated system remains constant; it is said to be conserved over time. In the case of a closed system the principle says that the total amount of energy within the system can only be changed through energy entering or leaving the system. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it can only be transformed or transferred from one form to another."
(Wikipedia: Laws of thermodynamics; Conservation of energy). So, the "E" if "the total amount of energy within the [E=hf] system can only be changed through energy entering or leaving the system", what energy stretches the wavelength equating to a red-shift, or what energy shrinks it equating to a blue-shift?
The theorists playing with dolls says that "motion" away from that photon does it, and does it in an amount based on distance.
And on and on ab absurdum.
It is more likely that when the "f" in the E=hf formula causes "E" to decrease, then that amount of energy has left that photon to become a part of "the CMB":
"Today, the CMB radiation is very cold, only 2.725° above absolute zero, thus this radiation shines primarilyin the microwave portion of the electromagneticspectrum, and is invisible to the naked eye. However, it fills the universe and can be detected everywhere we look. In fact, if we could see microwaves, the entire sky would glow with a brightness that was astonishingly uniform in every direction."
(WMAP). Ok, enough about the signal and the noise.
IV. Where Does the E=hf Go?
About 90% of it that reaches the Earth goes into the oceans of the world where it is then known as "enthalpy" (In Search Of Ocean Heat - 15).
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