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Saturday, 10. April 2004

2012, April 10, 2004 at 5:58:00 PM AEST

Redshift wrong

A scientist named Halton Alp has been saying for years that redshift, the technique used to measure the distance of stars from Earth, is caused by more than just velocity. So, quasars that look like they are part of a cluster, are part of it, whereas orthodox scientists say it only looks like belongs there, but is actually twice as far away.

He has been shunned by orthodox science:

One would at least expect the "powers that be" to immediately turn the Chandra X-ray orbiting telescope, the Hubble space telescope, and all the big land based telescopes toward Arp's exciting discoveries in order to either confirm or disprove them once and for all. Instead, these objects have been completely excluded from examination. Official photographs are routinely cropped to exclude them. Those familiar with the Galileo story will remember the priests who refused to look through his telescope.

But if he is right it means two things: