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Old 10-April-2008, 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by speedfreek View Post
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You are correct to ask why light should expand with the cosmic expansion, and I have no answer except to say that however we conceptualise the mechanism behind it, we measure the wavelength of light as having been stretched by the same factor that we think the universe has expanded by since that light was emitted.
Thanks for your response.
After having read Francis´ paper (see my post above, #20) I will try to digest some of its conclusions

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1 + ei*pi = 0

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