[Jimbo]

Profpat

My steady state theory is nothing like Hoyle's except that we both believe that matter is still being created today. Hoyle's theory assumes that the universe is expanding but the density remains constant because new matter is being created.

My steady state assumes that neutrons are still being created by the billion and this would account for clouds of hydrogen gas still being observed in various states of evolution. Thus there is a constant loss of fluid energy from the continuum as neutrons grow and mature into hydrogen atoms but this is balanced by the return of energy from photons as they travel through space. In addition, when stars collide it forces nuclear particles together as such speeds that many are prevented from spinning. Once they slow down then they expand from solid energy back into fluid energy and as their is a difference in density of 10^39 the result is a massive increase in the local continuum energy density.

Now a photon particle loses energy at a rate equal to that given by the red shift of starlight which means it takes 10^19 years for a gamma photon to lose all of its energy. However, when a photon passes through continuum energy at a higher than normal background density then it loses energy at an accelerated rate.

So light coming from stars close to a quasar will be red shifted by much greater amounts than those that are far away. Hence quasars can be associated with galaxies with a much lower red shift which is just as Arp has found.

I looked at your idea of an atom but found it to be far more complicated than the FET atom. In FET there is only one particle and that is the neutron which exists in two forms that easily switch places when the two forms of the particle are together in a nucleus. Thus a neutron can become a proton/electron pair and a proton/electron pair can become a neutron. There is no real difference between them in a nucleus because all of the nucleons share their electron energy and as it flows around the particles it binds them together.

I have explained in my second book exactly has these changes occur and why they are accompanied by the apparent release of an electron or a positron. But you will have to wait around 6 months before that book is ready

Thanks for your comments and interest

Jimbo

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