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TinyTree · **Graviational red shifting -** 12-18-2005, 01:42 PM

I like your explanation Zeroaca, I need to look at that some more and think about it.

Something else that is bugging me:

So a photon apparently does not have any mass. However, an object with mass, emitting a photon, must lose mass according to e=mc2. Now this photon must climb out of the gravitational well of this same mass, causing a redshift of the photon, reducing its frequency.

Now if this same photon is absorbed somewhere else, it increases the mass of the new object- DECREASED BY THE AMOUNT OF REDSHIFTING WHICH TOOK PLACE IN THE GRAVITATIONAL WELL.

So there it is- objects are losing mass and energy, and it is not conserved. Is it? What is going on?

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TinyTree Blue Belt Status: Offline Posts: 132 Thanks Given: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Join Date: Oct 2005 Rep Power: 13	Graviational red shifting - 12-18-2005, 01:42 PM I like your explanation Zeroaca, I need to look at that some more and think about it. Something else that is bugging me: So a photon apparently does not have any mass. However, an object with mass, emitting a photon, must lose mass according to e=mc2. Now this photon must climb out of the gravitational well of this same mass, causing a redshift of the photon, reducing its frequency. Now if this same photon is absorbed somewhere else, it increases the mass of the new object- DECREASED BY THE AMOUNT OF REDSHIFTING WHICH TOOK PLACE IN THE GRAVITATIONAL WELL. So there it is- objects are losing mass and energy, and it is not conserved. Is it? What is going on?