The Photon Current - 14

Fig. 1 Shift from ... ?

I. Review

Let's review the assertion that cosmologists have imagined as another doll to play with to try to explain the red-shift and the blue-shift of light:

"The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) was also emitted by an object - the very hot plasma which filled the Universe at the time of recombination. The temperature of the plasma at that time was about 3000°C, which corresponds to rather red (visible) light. However, since that time the Universe has expanded about 1000 times, and its wavelength has stretched way beyond the ability of our eyes to detect it. Today the CMB looks as if it had been emitted by a plasma at a temperature of about 2.7 Kelvin (-270°C).

The wavelength corresponding to these temperatures falls in the microwave range, or a few millimetres. In fact our televisions here on Earth, which also operate at similar wavelengths, are able to detect the CMB: about 1% of the noise you see on the TV screen when you tune to an empty channel actually corresponds to CMB photons!"

(ESA, emphasis added). So, the question is "when it is stretched 'back the other way' is the energy per photon increased during a blue-shift?", because:

"Each wavelength can also be associated to a frequency; there is a simple relationship between the two, and sometimes it is more convenient to speak of wavelength, and other times it is more convenient to talk of frequency.

Fig. 2 Shift to ... ?

Light can also be associated with energy, and there also is a simple relationship of energy and wavelength.

The longer the wavelength, the less the energy, and vice versa. Visible light is less energetic than, say, ultraviolet light or X-rays, and more energetic than infrared radiation or radio waves. This does not affect the speed at which they propagate - it is always the speed of light."

(ibid). Since a red-shift would cause a loss of energy per photon (longer wavelength) but a blue-shift  would mean an increase in energy per photon (shorter wavelength), sensing the conservation of energy laws of physics, imaginative cosmologists have become shifty:

"There are three known types [of shifts]: Doppler shifts (due to motion through space away from the observer); gravitational redshifts (due to light leaving a strong gravitational field); and cosmological expansion (where space itself stretches as light travels through it). The way astronomers distinguish between the three depends on the kind of object they are studying."

(Shifts on Steroids). When studying the 'Doppler Shift' the speed of sound caused by the compression of non-electromagnetic objects, which do not travel at the speed of light, is the issue (Doppler was an 1800's scientist). 

II. Einstein and Thermodynamics

 Einstein Quote: "classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced will never be overthrown" (Wayback Machine, Thermodynamics, The Ghost Photons).

Anyway, these red and blue "shifts" in photon wavelengths are substantial energy transformations to the photon, so let's review the relevant principles (laws of thermodynamics) which 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, concerning photon wavelengths, they say that they all have stretched during a red-shift or blue-shift, which is a veiled assertion that energy changes per photon have taken place (increased @ blue-shift, decreased @red-shift).

Unless that is addressed properly, there are three other types of stretches that apply (stretch the truth, stretch things, a bit of a stretch).

Fig. 3 Stretching Light

I say that because one of the fundamentals of energy changes (thermodynamics) is that no new energy is created and no energy is destroyed.

So, in the increase and decrease of photon wavelength, the energy must come from elsewhere (blue-shift) or go somewhere else (red-shift).

III. Light Color Ranges

Hypothetical Cosmic Microwave Background
Radiation Changes Back To "The Bigga Badda Boom"

Epoch (bya)	Kelvin (K)	Celcius (°C)	Fahrenheit (°F)	Wavelength λ (hundreds)
0	2.7250000	-270.4250000	-454.7650000	24.0199524
1	275.8750000	2.7250000	36.9050000	22.0199524
2	549.0250000	275.8750000	528.5750000	20.0199524
3	822.1750000	549.0250000	1020.2450000	18.0199524
4	1095.3250000	822.1750000	1511.9150000	16.0199524
5	1368.4750000	1095.3250000	2003.5850000	14.0199524
6	1641.6250000	1368.4750000	2495.2550000	12.0199524
7	1914.7750000	1641.6250000	2986.9250000	10.0199524
8	2187.9250000	1914.7750000	3478.5950000	8.0199524
9	2461.0750000	2187.9250000	3970.2650000	6.0199524
10	2734.2250000	2461.0750000	4461.9350000	4.0199524
11	3007.3750000	2734.2250000	4953.6050000	2.0199524
12	3280.5250000	3007.3750000	5445.2750000	0.0199524

IV. From then to now, where have all the photons gone?

Fig. 4 Quite a Span

"The preponderance of emission in the visible range, however, is not the case in most stars. The hot supergiant Rigel emits 60% of its light in the ultraviolet, while the cool supergiant Betelgeuse emits 85% of its light at infrared wavelengths. With both stars prominent in the constellation of Orion, one can easily appreciate the color difference between the blue-white Rigel (T = 12100 K) and the red Betelgeuse (T ≈ 3800 K). While few stars are as hot as Rigel, stars cooler than the Sun or even as cool as Betelgeuse are very commonplace."

(Wien Displacement). When such huge changes are said to have taken place, the CMB does not equate, so something is missing unless the quantity of photons (moles) making up the CMB is astronomically higher than the count was epochs ago.

V. Closing Comments

If the CMB is that 'somewhere else' that could be a part of a hypothesis which does not just ignore energy increases and decreases which must take place when wavelength increases or decreases, then let's continue to improve upon it.

Otherwise trash it because "things are getting newer all the time" (Controversial new theory of gravity rules out need for dark matter).

The next post in this series is here, the previous post in this series is here.

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