From Peter Woit’s The Hype Goes On:
- Aaron Sheldon Says:
April 24th, 2006 at 6:48 pm Um…Is our knowledge of red-shift nearly anywhere as reliable as our knowledge of labratory H2 absorbtion lines? Isn’t it a bit like comparing apples to oranges?I mean, we measure red-shift by assuming the relationship between spectral lines remains constant. But then we introduce an observation that says the relationship between spectral lines is not constant, then how are we to calibrate red-shift?Something has to give, and I think it will require refining our understanding of red-shifts.
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