Thoughts on Hubble's Constant, and a Prediction
It occurs to me that when Hubble invoked the Doppler Effect to
"explain" the odd spectral signatures he was seeing from distant
galaxies, it was an inspired guess, but wrong. Rather than resulting from the
"red shifting" or "blue shifting" of light -- and hence
implying movement away from or toward the viewer -- these signatures were
exactly what they seemed to be: it is not light which "shifts" but
matter.... or, more accurately, the smallest constituent of matter.
My prediction is that when this smallest constituent is finally discovered, it
will be found to have a locally constant, but universally variable mass. In
other words, the mass of that smallest particle will vary across the universe,
dependent on the mass of the "parent body" of which it is a part, but
will be a constant within any one such "parent body" -- that constant
being about 10^-39 the mass of the parent body.
By the term "parent body" I'm referring to the theory's suggestion
that matter comes into existence in "clumps" which are rarely less
massive than a galaxy, or more massive than a galactic cluster. The mass of
matter's smallest constituent will vary, depending on the mass of the
"clump" in which it is found.
Gershom Gale
e-mail: gershon1@netvision.net.il