Following on for those poor folk who didn’t know what Eigenvalue meant, it is probably worth pointing out that Redshift is all about things which are accelerating away from you very very fast.
I sometimes wonder if we aren’t slaves to bad metaphor…
Definition of Redshift
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3 responses to “Definition of Redshift”
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Ha, ha. Funny and not funny. There is some truth to bad metaphors…
Thanks, Alec.
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s/accelerating/moving/
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for discrete objects, perhaps, but from a cosmological perspective may I suggest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_universe 🙂
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