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Re: Cornell University Explains Cosmological Redshift

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From: N:dlzc D:aol T:com (dlzc)
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:47
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Dear Vince Morgan:

"Vince Morgan" <vinharAtHereoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message 
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> Silly question perhaps, but, why didn't the light
> beam 'blue' shift on the way 'up' to the mirror?
> And if it did, why didn't a corresponding 'red'
> shift on the way back not correspond?

The light never changes frequency.  The frequency is 
characteristic of:
* the process that emitted it,
* the instant it was emitted,
* and the location in a gravity well (if any) it was emitted 
from.

David A. Smith 
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