Cecil Moore wrote:
Michael Coslo wrote:
All parts of any given galaxy are not moving toward or away from us at
the same speed, unless the galaxy is perfectly perpendicular to us.

True, but consider that the red shift frequencies
are discontinuous, i.e. quantized.

Is your red-shift issue about the red shift itself, or about the
magnitude of the shift? And if "variable seconds" is the culprit, how
are blue shifted stars accommodated in your model?

My issue is that red-shifts are not necessarily
100% Doppler effects.


Of course there is gravitational redshift too, but I don't think that is
what you are referring to.

I think you are trying to say that time is variable (forgive if I err)
This means that the speed of light is also variable if only by relation
to that variable time element

Doppler effect is readily observable at audio and RF wavelengths. It is
widely accepted that the effect continues at light wavelengths.

Any effects that alter Doppler at light wavelengths should also be
noticeable at to wavelengths. I have not heard of any such, have you?

This then says that we are not in the "fastest time" zone, because there
are celestial bodies that are blue shifting toward us, or perhaps
not,they are just in a different "time zone"? ;^)

BTW, I erred in my perpendicular statement above. I forgot about
transverse Doppler shift that we would indeed have in a galaxy at right
angles.

- 73 de Mike KB3EIA -