by danda » Mon Dec 23, 2024 2:29 am
For anyone interested in this subject, I recommend the book "Pushing Gravity" It provides a history of the topic as well as chapters by different researchers that provide alternative push-gravity models.
As I recall, a lot of this comes down to a mechanism for "tired light", ie does light lose energy in interstellar space, and how/why? To me, the answer to that is kinda simple: light is a wave in a medium (aether), no medium is perfect, thus all waves lose energy with time/distance. From our perspective, the aether is close enough to perfect it is hard to measure this slowdown, but it still occurs over great distances, and probably puts a limit on how far we can observe into the infinite universe. Further, aether interacts weakly with matter, and there is dust etc in space, that could also cause aetheric waves to lose energy.
For anyone interested in this subject, I recommend the book "Pushing Gravity" It provides a history of the topic as well as chapters by different researchers that provide alternative push-gravity models.
As I recall, a lot of this comes down to a mechanism for "tired light", ie does light lose energy in interstellar space, and how/why? To me, the answer to that is kinda simple: light is a wave in a medium (aether), no medium is perfect, thus all waves lose energy with time/distance. From our perspective, the aether is close enough to perfect it is hard to measure this slowdown, but it still occurs over great distances, and probably puts a limit on how far we can observe into the infinite universe. Further, aether interacts weakly with matter, and there is dust etc in space, that could also cause aetheric waves to lose energy.