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[leeroy]

Tom,
Thanks for the encouraging reply. Although I'm not on chapter 6 yet, here is what the author says on his book summary page on his web site:

Is Our Universe Truly Expanding?
The concept of a universe that is not only expanding, but accelerating its expansion due to mysterious "Dark Energy" is yet another clearly flawed belief. But further, it is a belief that our scientists already know better than to follow since it is based on the completely unsupported assumption that distant Red-Shifted light is explained by the same Doppler Effect as shifted sound frequencies. But light is such a completely different phenomenon than sound that this is an extremely speculative assumption. But also, light is widely known to be Red Shifted by other far simpler causes, such as merely passing through plastics and gases of all sorts. The fact that light appears Red-Shifted after traveling billions of light years through space, which is filled with all manner of radiation, particles, and materials should surprise no scientifically educated individual, and lends no particular credibility to the belief in an ever-accelerating expanding universe with no known power source, driven by some sort of mysterious "Dark Energy".

I'm not sure if he considers "radiation, particles, and materials" space debris or not, but that's the way I took it.

I don't know if the author is on the right path or not, but one thing is for sure he does present some interesting ideas and makes you think about currently held beliefs about how things work within the bounds of our knowledge. To me science is about considering and researching possibilities, even if they seem strange. And if anything, hopefully I'll come away with a better understanding of physics in general after reading his book.

Lee