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Old 09-April-2008, 10:16 PM
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But anyone in the universe who is looking at an object with a redshift of z=7 must be in a universe 7 times larger than it was when the light was emitted, so why should that light be considered to be unchanged in itself?
(I guess by "unchanged" you mean unstretched)

Being in a universe "7 times larger than it was .." . Do you mean by this that galaxies, stars, planets, men (if they existed at z=7), etc. must have expanded "sevenfold"?? I don´t think so. I understand that the expansion of the universe does NOT result in an expansion of its matter-constituents. If they don´t expand, why should light "expand"?
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