Subject: Red Shift, how solid is the theory?

Ive always held this Hubble red shift of the 20's suspect, more by wordly 
logic and faith, than scholarship.

As I understand it, the red shift is a little like a racecar which moves 
towards you, then away.  The sound is lower after the car races by you, the 
new pitch thanks to the doppler effect.  I'm told the red shift is like this 
too, only using light instead of sound, and fancy ?spectrometers? (prisms), 
and telescopes.  This ole' red shift happens when you look at stuff a ways 
out in the universe.  Therefore, all those stars are moving away.  This I 
can't except (more-a-less faith reasons, and not the Religeous kind).

Could there be any event in the course of these photons' millenial travels 
which might change em' a little, say shift the spectrum?  Even something so 
minute as gravitational radiation (I know, I know...light sorta kinda 
doesn't have this matter thing...another day another question), or paths 
getting slightly curved might tire the buggers out, and cause this ubiquitous 
red shift.  So what's the current thinking on the red shift, and that 
universal expansion?  Thanks-a-lot.

Andrew

Re: Red Shift, how solid is the theory?