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Redshift of photons penetrating a hot plasma
Astrophysics · Submitted 21 Jan 2004
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The authors' main claim Plasma redshift explains the solar redshifts, the redshifts of the galactic corona, the cosmological redshifts, the cosmic microwave background, and the X-ray background.
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A new interaction, plasma redshift, is derived, which is important only when photons penetrate a hot, sparse electron plasma. The derivation of plasma redshift is based entirely on conventional axioms of physics. When photons penetrate a cold and dense plasma, they lose energy through ionization and excitation, Compton scattering on the individual electrons, and Raman scattering on the plasma frequency. But in sparse hot plasma, such as in the solar corona, the photons lose energy also in plasma redshift. The energy loss per electron in the plasma redshift is about equal to the product of the photon's energy and one half of the Compton cross-section per electron. In quiescent solar corona, this heating starts in the transition zone to the corona and is a major fraction of the coronal heating. Plasma redshift contributes also to the heating of the interstellar plasma, the galactic corona, and the intergalactic plasma. Plasma redshift explains the solar redshifts, the redshifts of the galactic corona, the cosmological redshifts, the cosmic microwave background, and the X-ray background. The plasma redshift explains the observed magnitude-redshift relation for supernovae SNe Ia without the big bang, dark matter, or dark energy. There is no cosmic time dilation. The universe is not expanding. The plasma redshift, when compared with experiments, shows that the photons' classical gravitational redshifts are reversed as the photons move from the Sun to the Earth. This is a quantum mechanical effect. As seen from the Earth, a repulsion force acts on the photons. This means that there is no need for Einstein's Lambda term. The universe is quasi-static, infinite, and everlasting.
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| s0 | A new interaction, plasma redshift, is derived, which is important only when photons penetrate a hot, sparse electron plasma. | contribution 0.98 | 0.88 | 0.50 | asserted 1.00 |
| s1 | The derivation of plasma redshift is based entirely on conventional axioms of physics. | method 0.74 | 0.76 | 0.05 | asserted 1.00 |
| s2 | When photons penetrate a cold and dense plasma, they lose energy through ionization and excitation, Compton scattering on the individual electrons, and Raman scattering on the plasma frequency. | background 1.00 | 0.15 | 0.03 | asserted 1.00 |
| s3 | But in sparse hot plasma, such as in the solar corona, the photons lose energy also in plasma redshift. | result 0.58 | 0.46 | 0.17 | asserted 1.00 |
| s4 | The energy loss per electron in the plasma redshift is about equal to the product of the photon's energy and one half of the Compton cross-section per electron. | result 0.99 | 0.78 | 0.09 | asserted 0.98 |
| s5 | In quiescent solar corona, this heating starts in the transition zone to the corona and is a major fraction of the coronal heating. | result 0.57 | 0.57 | 0.09 | asserted 1.00 |
| s6 | Plasma redshift contributes also to the heating of the interstellar plasma, the galactic corona, and the intergalactic plasma. | result 0.68 | 0.52 | 0.07 | asserted 0.99 |
| s7 | Plasma redshift explains the solar redshifts, the redshifts of the galactic corona, the cosmological redshifts, the cosmic microwave background, and the X-ray background. | interpretation 0.63 | 0.51 | 0.37 | asserted 1.00 |
| s8 | The plasma redshift explains the observed magnitude-redshift relation for supernovae SNe Ia without the big bang, dark matter, or dark energy. | result 0.50 | 0.60 | 0.31 | asserted 1.00 |
| s9 | There is no cosmic time dilation. | interpretation 0.62 | 0.46 | 0.13 | asserted 1.00 |
| s10 | The universe is not expanding. | interpretation 0.76 | 0.45 | 0.21 | asserted 1.00 |
| s11 | The plasma redshift, when compared with experiments, shows that the photons' classical gravitational redshifts are reversed as the photons move from the Sun to the Earth. | result 0.66 | 0.68 | 0.15 | asserted 1.00 |
| s12 | This is a quantum mechanical effect. | interpretation 0.87 | 0.45 | 0.05 | asserted 1.00 |
| s13 | As seen from the Earth, a repulsion force acts on the photons. | interpretation 0.87 | 0.61 | 0.10 | asserted 1.00 |
| s14 | This means that there is no need for Einstein's Lambda term. | interpretation 0.99 | 0.42 | 0.10 | asserted 1.00 |
| s15 | The universe is quasi-static, infinite, and everlasting. | interpretation 0.93 | 0.41 | 0.27 | asserted 1.00 |
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A new interaction, plasma redshift, is derived, which is important only when photons penetrate a hot, sparse electron plasma. The derivation of plasma redshift is based entirely on conventional axioms of physics. When photons penetrate a cold and dense plasma, they lose energy through ionization and excitation, Compton scattering on the individual electrons, and Raman scattering on the plasma frequency. But in sparse hot plasma, such as in the solar corona, the photons lose energy also in plasma redshift. The energy loss per electron in the plasma redshift is about equal to the product of the photon's energy and one half of the Compton cross-section per electron. In quiescent solar corona, this heating starts in the transition zone to the corona and is a major fraction of the coronal heating. Plasma redshift contributes also to the heating of the interstellar plasma, the galactic corona, and the intergalactic plasma. Plasma redshift explains the solar redshifts, the redshifts of the galactic corona, the cosmological redshifts, the cosmic microwave background, and the X-ray background. The plasma redshift explains the observed magnitude-redshift relation for supernovae SNe Ia without the big bang, dark matter, or dark energy. There is no cosmic time dilation. The universe is not expanding. The plasma redshift, when compared with experiments, shows that the photons' classical gravitational redshifts are reversed as the photons move from the Sun to the Earth. This is a quantum mechanical effect. As seen from the Earth, a repulsion force acts on the photons. This means that there is no need for Einstein's Lambda term. The universe is quasi-static, infinite, and everlasting.
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For this reason, a cosmological light-matter interaction producing a red-shift can only be produced in elements which do not have an internal structure, such as electrons (as Ari Brynjolfsson correctly pointed out [ref] ) because no resonance or bands exists in electrons.
On the Interpretation of Spectral Red-Shift in Astrophysics: A Survey of Red-Shift Mechanisms - II · Red-Shifts produced by an interaction between light and matter · 0.98
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We list some of the processes which produce the observed redshift of galaxies: * a plasma physics effect, see [ref] , * a photo-absorption process, see [ref] , * an interaction of photons with curved space time, see [ref] , * an interaction of photons with intergalactic free electrons, see [ref] ,
Anisotropy in the Hubble constant as modeled by density gradients · Introduction · 0.96
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