Plasma redshift, coronal heating, QSOs, CMB, DM halos etc.

I have a very long page at:

http://astroneu.com/plasma-redshift-1/

concerning two theories by which light is redshifted by a plasma
which is of such a low density that the inter-particle spacing
generally exceeds the coherence length of the light. This leads
the wavefront to travel in an inhomogenous medium: primarily
vacuum with occasional discrete interactions with particles
which slow down parts of the wavefront.

I point to Ari Brynjolfsson's highly mathematically developed
theory:

Redshift of photons penetrating a hot plasma
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0401420

and discuss my own, which is far less developed, but probably
easier to understand.

These are tired light theories and I have written to Ned Wright
asking him to link to my page from his critique:

http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/tiredlit.htm

If a theory such as plasma redshift turns out to be valid, then
the Big Bang theory would probably be shown to be largely or
wholly invalid. But the Big Bang theory creates many problems,
particularly for explaining quasars, because of the extreme
distances and luminosities the theory insists on for these
objects. These problems include the Compton catastrophe, the
rapid variations in flux and the commonplace so-called
"superluminal" motion of jet components - all of which will
probably be resolved if high redshift quasars are considered to
be at distances comparable to lower redshift galaxies.

Plasma redshift would explain most of the redshift of quasars as
occurring close to them in a locally concentrated zone of IGM.
The cosmological redshift of galaxies would probably be shown to
be plasma redshift, rather than Doppler shift due to their
recession from us, AKA "the expansion of the Universe".

There are a number of really important, well observed phenomena
which we do not currently understand at all. I think these
should be well understood before anyone is confident about a
theory such as the Big Bang. These problems include the
missing mass of galaxies (to explain their rotation and probably
their velocities in clusters), the heating of the solar corona
and the acceleration of the solar wind.

I think that the failure to find the transverse proximity effect
with a foreground quasar is a robust challenge to the
conventional view of redshift and the velocities and distances
of quasars and galaxies.

Disproving a theory and replacing it with nothing more than a
realisation that we don't have a good theory is perfectly good
scientific progress. Nonetheless it is customary and persuasive
to provide a new theory as a drop-in replacement and to use that
theory as the foundation of new and more elegant explanations of
observations which were previously explained with the old theory.

I show that once the Universe is considered to be *lot* older
than 15 billion years, it is not hard to think of
plausible-sounding mechanisms to explain observations such as
the foam-like large-scale structure and the CMB.

There's a lot of material on my page which will hopefully be
interesting, but it may lead to blood-pressure anisotropy in
those who are sick of critiques of the Big Bang theory.

This page is a work-in-progress so please let me know your
critiques, suggestions for improvement etc. via email or via
sci.astro.research.

Below I list some topics my page covers.

- Robin



Coronal heating and solar wind acceleration.

Spicules and prominences.

The energy of light encountered by each particle (electron,
proton, ion etc.) close to the Sun is about 64 microwatts - the
amount of sunlight on Earth which passes through a hole 0.24 mm
in diameter.

I estimate the redshift of light required to heat the solar
corona etc. is at least 3 parts per million - but this is not
observed in the redshift of photospheric absorption lines. I
give a potential explanation based on the long coherence
length of these lines request that critics cut this young
theory some slack for a while regarding this apparent
discrepancy. (This is for my theory - Ari Brynjolfsson has
other mechanisms besides plasma redshift for heating and
acceleration. It seems that the gravitational redshift is not
observed in photospheric lines either - he has a theory why.)

If plasma redshift can redshift light by one part in 13 billion
(a millimetre in the diameter of the Earth) for every year it
spends travelling in the Inter Galactic Medium, then there's no
reason to believe that the cosmological redshift is caused by
Doppler movement / expansion of the Universe.

Combining the catalogues of the 2dFGRS and 2QZ surveys.

The CMB may be caused by black dwarfs and their collision
fragments - a dark matter halo around galaxies. (Galaxies can
be plenty old enough to produce a vast graveyard of black dwarfs
once we accept that the Universe is far older than the Big Bang
theory suggests.)

Largescale structure of the Universe (Be sure to see the "3D"
rotating visualisation of the CfA galaxy redshifts:
http://www.allthesky.com/various/cfa.html )

X-ray background suggests Void IGM is at 440,000,000K - which
could be explained by plasma redshift. Such temperatures lead
to pressures which corral galaxies into clusters in the spaces
between the void "bubbles". I suggest the void does this by
constraining denser Intra-Cluster IGM, which is somehow
gravitationally and/or frictionally coupled to the visible
galaxies and their dark matter halos.

Some inconclusive thoughts on the Fingers of God galaxy redshift
scatter effect.

Failure to find the Transverse Proximity Effect (AKA Foreground
Proximity Effect) with a foreground quasar leads the researchers
to contemplate three implausible and probably provably wrong
explanations within conventional Big Bang cosmology. However
they do not seem to consider that this well-established failure
to find the predicted effect constitutes solid evidence that
quasars are not at the distances they believe them to be.
(I wrote to the researchers a few weeks ago.)

I propose that most of the redshift of high redshift quasars is
caused by a more concentrated IGM (gravitationally - the quasar
feeds on it) around the quasar, leading to more plasma redshift
per parsec than is usual in the Void IGM.

Some speculative thoughts on low-FIP fractionation of elements
in the solar upper chromosphere and on the variations in wind
speed according to the state of the atmosphere from which it
originates.

Possible indirect lab tests of plasma redshift and/or the role
of low-coherence light (sunlight) in chromospheric element
fractionation.