Red Shift and dark matter

Anonymous · Guest Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 6:18 pm

I'm an amateur at this stuff, but is it possible that the red shifting of distant galaxies could be caused by interference by dark matter. The greater the distance, the greater the red shift, the greater the amount of dark matter interference. This might explain the homogenous look of the universe in all directions.

Dave Zak

from one amatuer to another: pretty neat idea. I recently watched an author on TV who was giving a lecture on his book about the big bang. That was what got my interest in cosmology. I regret to say that I never took physics and had to look up the theory of relativity on the web because the last time I read anything about it was in the sixth grade. However, the author was very informative and I felt like I understood much more about the universe after watching the program. He did go into red shifts a bit but I don't recall him saying something similar to your comment. He merely talked about the red shift as being the result of a viewed galaxy moving farther away from us and the light waves would therefore be elongated very much like sound waves elongate when a car beeps his horn as he's moving away from you and you hear the pitch get lower as it moves farther away. For sound, it is called the doppler effect, for light, I guess it's called the red shift. I started to surf the web and learned a little about dark matter. Read my comment about it posted on 2/6/05 "Dark Matter: layperson's theory why 90% unnacounted for. It's kind of nice to get a reply when you post an idea.

Jim Colyer

Dark matter is hard to understand. I need more convincing. http://jimcolyer.com/papers/entry?id=2

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starhunter

Dark matter doesn't interact with the Electromagnetic Force, so it doesn't register on the electromagnetic spectrum. The "missing mass" could slow down or speed up other objects and skew the Red Shift.

Red Shift and dark matter

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