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The redshift of light

A changing value of Planck’s constant.

redshift of light

If energy is conserved in a rescaling universe, a redshift of light from distant stars must result as follows.

Imagine a photon of light, of zero rest mass, but of energy and frequency being emitted from a distant star at a time when Plancks constant was .

When it arrives at earth Plancks constant has become

t is the time of transit for the photon on its journey to earth, its energy would be

From conservation of energy (no time passes for the photon, so it is assumed that its energy is unchanged, whereas Plancks constant, like the gravitational constant, may be dependent on the surrounding matter distribution and cosmological time).

and the measured wavelength would be

so the emitted light becomes redshifted with time.

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