I take it you are saying that all photons are non-linear and the change in shape is a change in frequency and wave length?

To make sure I understand, you are saying that the energy of the original photon is conserved and the lost energy of the main wave becomes a harmonic wave? Is the harmonic wave detectible? Does it travel through space with the original photon? Is it composed of a discrete packet of energy like the original photon?

If this developing and changing shape is an explanation of the red shift, what portion of the red shift does it explain? Are you saying it explains all of the red shift?

I thought that science had put this issue to bed and that the universe is expanding as the galaxies and groups of galaxies move away from each other. The red shift is primarily a change in wave length caused by the Doppler Effect.

I can see how the frequency and wave length would be affected by gravity and cosmic dust but by far the greater effect has been attributed to expansion hasn’t it.

Can you give me the next increment of your idea without refering to in-depth concepts developed elsewhere that I will never find time to track down and reason out .