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> http://www.springerlink.com/content/w6777w07xn737590/fulltext.pdf
> Misconceptions about the Hubble recession law
> Wilfred H. Sorrell, Astrophys Space Sci
> "Reber (1982) pointed out that Hubble himself was never an advocate
> for the expanding universe idea. Indeed, it was Hubble who personally
> thought that a model universe based on the tired-light hypothesis is
> more simple and less irrational than a model universe based on an
> expanding spacetime geometry (...) ...any photon gradually loses its
> energy while traveling over a large distance in the vast space of the
> universe."
>
> In the era of Postscientism it is extremely difficult, even
> impossible, to move from "any photon gradually loses its ENERGY while
> traveling over a large distance in the vast space of the universe" to
> "any photon gradually loses its SPEED while traveling over a large
> distance in the vast space of the universe". George Orwell calls this
> "crimestop":
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics.relativity/browse_frm/thread/dd27d99950d28e39?
> George Orwell: "Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as
> though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It
> includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive
> logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are
> inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of
> thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction.
> Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity."

More crimestop in Einsteiniana (stopping short, as though by instinct,
at the threshold of the dangerous thought "Einstein's 1905 light
postulate is false"):

http://www.ag-physics.org/darkenergy/
"Dark Energy - Really Needed? Not needed! (...) So, as an alternative
to an assumed change of the 'space', it can as well be assumed that
the speed of light has changed in the way that it was extremely large
in a short period after the Big Bang. Afterwards the speed of light
decreased rapidly at first, and later in a slow manner until the
present time as shown in figure 3.2."

Pentcho Valev
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