I might have come up with a 'testable' Thought Experiment for Tired Light; the concept that light gets tired over time, and space, sliding into red-shifted territory. Red-shift having nothing to do with a receeding universe or Big Bang, just TIME.
Basically, you can't do a 'tired light' experiment on Earth because every time an atom is 'overloaded' the ENTIRE UNIVERSE (light, and other e.m.r's) leaps in to 'settle the debt' - a light wave seems to propagate out...
The light's age is local to every such 'debt settle' and there are countless number of 'settlements' taking place on our planet all the time. The structure of spacetime that is the ENTIRE UNIVERSE falling in to settle a debt doesn't have time to get old and fritter away into red-shifted territory.
So, we need to think of the farthest thing we've been close up to and measure the light coming off it. Fresh light from a close-up position. Voyager 2, for example, passed by Neptune on August 25, 1989.
Surely, several massive telescopes were pointing at Neptune to measure the same light arriving at Earth some 5 hours later.
We know the relative speeds of Earth-Neptune and Voyager2-Neptune at the exact time of light gather at the respective locations so any doppler shift can be mathematically removed from the calculations.
I bet the light from Neptune from Earth comes out (subtly but significantly) tireder i.e. MORE RED-SHIFTED than the light from Neptune to Voyager 2, simply because it is older.
And another thought, "Is gravity the opposite of light?" if a HC Unit is pulsing out little excesses that light fills in the gap of, there's a DIRECT RELATIONSHIP. The temporal existence of ight (and other e.m.r's) means something has pulsed out a bit of space, we know this as gravity. For every excess of space energy from an HC Unit, there's an equal and opposite fall-in of THE UNIVERSE. But you can understand how there'd be a vast difference in these (opposing) passing waves when one originates from a pin-prick (gravity) and one originates from the enormity of space (light).
This is why it's then possible to say that, "Things that shine, stars for example, should be HEAVIER than the sum total of their atoms," by design.
Gravity waves, once we can spot them, will also demonstrate TIREDNESS.
TECHNICAL AMENDMENT: of course, a much better experiment would be to have VOYAGER 1 or 2 sample light directly from the sun. Mark a time stamp. Note the separation distances. Send the signal back to base. Do the same from Earth. Image the sun. Analyse exactly the amount of red shift of the hydrogen lines i.e. the TIRED LIGHT EFFECT, for both samplings of timed sunlight over that 'short distance' difference.
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Mike: I woke up this morning wondering, "is gravity the opposite of light?" Its nice that last night you were posting the same question. I take it you are a writer and therefore amateur scientist rather than a trained scientist. After thinking this thought this morning, I was thinking that it is more a poetic insight (in method) than a scientific one, which does not mean that it is not possible to look at the same thought using non-poetic methods, but I know I do not have the "physics" background to follow through with such
poetic or philosophical intuitions.
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