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New Theories / Re: Could light be the only truly stationary "stuff" in the universe?
« on: 17/02/2016 14:46:00 »I see your point Chiral but remember; the universe isn't a "giant 3 dimensional room", as Einstein discovered. It exists in ways that the senses and instinct don't easily comprehend. What if the redshifting is due to us doing the moving instead of light? My theory isn't postulating that light is accelerating with the expanding universe - I'm theorizing that light is genuinely stationary and the universe is expanding and accelerating away from it, giving us the illusion that it's light that is doing the moving when in my theorized reality, it's us who are doing the moving instead.
If the light is stationary, and we are moving, why is the light from different objects redshifted by different amounts?
I'm also still not certain how we could perceive light from different directions if it is stationary and we are moving... Are we moving in one direction? Are we moving outward in all directions? If the latter, please explain what is meant by "moving"? If the former, how could we perceive light from any direction other than the one we are moving toward?
Also, since you mention Einstein, whose frame of reference are we talking about? If I understand correctly (big if), from the hypothetical perspective of a photon traveling at the speed of light, the photon must be stationary with respect to itself, and due to Lorentz length and time contractions associated with a velocity of c, the photon is stationary to the rest of the universe (along the trajectory that it is traveling) and completes a journey of 0 distance in 0 time. Doesn't make any intuitive sense, but as far as I understand, nothing does when traveling at c!
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