Does Light Decay According to the Law of Entropy?
What magic quality does light have which prevents it from degrading entropically when everything else does? If light loses energy due to entropy, it would shift to the red end of the spectrum as energy dissipates. Is it possible that spent light energy would show up in the celebrated cosmic background radiation? Astronomers Tom Van Flandern and Halton Arp are not fond of the “tired light” idea, although some of their colleagues are pursuing it more vigorously. Eric Lerner says that J.P. Vigier has proposed a new term for quantum mechanics in which the vacuum of space absorbs energy as light travels through it. Lerner carries the ball further and gives alternative explanations for the red shift beside big bang expansion.[2] Recently, different research groups have come up with different H(o) values, which when applied inversely to determine the age of the u iverse, have resulted in estimates that the universe is somewhere between 7 and 16 billion years old. [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] Sci
