| Re: Special Theory of Relativity -
02-24-2008, 10:57 AM
Hello friends:
Just a bit for clarification, and a few questions at the end.
About spectroscopy and the character of light itself. The absorption lines and the harmonic or (brighter lines) that are generated by the effect of the materials that are present in the star itself, are the result of atomic level of harmonic frequencies. An element has a specific harmonic frequency and an absorption frequency. It absorbs energy at one frequency and doubles the energy in another. The amount of energy absorbed at the absorption point is equal to the amount of energy that is doubled at the harmonic point. It is this phenomena that is used to create our atomic clocks. The elements that show up in the lower part of the spectrum, like cesium, can be reached by our microwave generators. This makes it possible to use the stability of this element as the basis of a clock frequency. Each (color temperature frequency) is a specific (kind?- property of?) light. If you consider light as an electromagnetic wave this complexity can be understood. However when you attempt to relate light to a particle, it must simply be the smallest quantum bit. But is it a wave or is it a particle, I do not think we have that answer.
If we consider both time and space to be also quantified. Then we can see that the minimum size of the quanta of each can set the limit for the speed of light. The smallest time quanta times the smallest space quanta = C
We could imagine an experiment, instead of using the element lines, we send 2 laser beams of different color temperature through a spinning fan blade in opposite directions through the same fan. Note, even if the fan blade changes, both lasers will be effected equally. Now mount the entire device on a disk or wheel that can be rotated. When you observe the laser beams from the edge of the disk or wheel the pulses that you receive will show different timing between one CT (colortemp) and the other. This difference will increase and decrease depending on the speed of rotation. This is simply Doppler effect.
This is the same effect that is seen from one side of a rotating galaxy to the other.
The thought is that the shift toward the red spectrum that is seen on objects that are at a great distance is relative to the expansion of space itself, resulting in the object moving away from us at speeds great enough to see changes in the color temperature. A spinning fan blade is very slow and it does not require much change in speed to see a percentile difference, however the speed of the harmonic frequency of the elements that we are using to determine this phenomena are extremely high and require a much higher rate of speed before a percentile of difference can be detected.
The Doppler effect is not in question. However the reason for what is seen as the red shift is up for debate.
My question: Has there ever been a galaxy that is at the farthest reaches of our universe ever become no longer detectable? Do they remain the same as they have always been seen without any detectable change in there distance?
What these questions are asking is, Is this distance an infinitely finite distance? Like thinking about a maximum quantum of space and a maximum quantum of time to get there at the maximum speed determined by the size of the quanta.
John. |