RE: Questions about Physics, Biology and perspective
June 22, 2016 at 5:48 pm
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2016 at 5:51 pm by bennyboy.)
Okay, a kind of relativity question:
If the forces in the universe were the things changing and distance being constant, rather than vice versa, such that everything was actually shrinking, couldn't this give the exact some sense of redshift and the illusion of motion? It seems to me that if the receptor has shrunk in size, it will sense light as being longer in wavelength, and therefore lead to the inference of motion due to red shift, though perhaps none has occurred. Would there be anyway to differentiate experimentally between these two possibilities?
If the forces in the universe were the things changing and distance being constant, rather than vice versa, such that everything was actually shrinking, couldn't this give the exact some sense of redshift and the illusion of motion? It seems to me that if the receptor has shrunk in size, it will sense light as being longer in wavelength, and therefore lead to the inference of motion due to red shift, though perhaps none has occurred. Would there be anyway to differentiate experimentally between these two possibilities?
