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Subject: Red shift/violet shift

Date: Wed Aug 7 15:46:53 1996
Posted by: Peter Gillespie
Grade level: nonaligned
School/Organization: No school given.
City: Huntington State/Province: VT
Country: USA
Area of science: Astronomy
Message ID: 839450813.As
Message:
How do we know that the red shift
of light from ancient stars etc. is
not due, at least in part, to a 
gradual shift toward the violet of
the light produced by the collapse
of electron orbits to which the
ancient light is compared?

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