<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Jim</i>
<br />Intergalatic dust is the IGM so if that is the cause of Hubble shift then we are on the same page.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Close, maybe, but not exactly the same page. The IGM produces the fuzziness. The redshift, which sets in 1000 times closer to us, is caused by the friction of elysium waves (light) with gravitons in MM.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">My question is how much of that stuff (whatever it is known as) is needed to generate the observed LAF? There is a funded program looking at this and they are developing a model that requires dense clouds and empty spaces in the IGM. They say a dark line in produced by a cloud and the space between the lines is generated by empty space. I may be wrong on the details here.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">"Dense" is, of course, a relative term. In standard theory, your "LAF" is composed of sets of absorbtion lines by clouds of hydrogen gas. Such clouds are few and far between in intergalactic space, but seem to cluster around quasars. Because each hydrogen cloud along the line of site is at a different redshift, standard theory says the set of absorption lines from all the different clouds a light ray passes through will combine to make a "forest" of lines. Yet each contributing cloud is widely spaced from all the others. -|Tom|-
