My central imagery is as follows: Let us imagine that we are viewing distant galaxies shifting away from us as we observe them through the Hubble Telescope, and our locus as observers is that we are located at a point on Earth and viewing the "red shift" located at faraway sites, and both we, the observers, and the visible galaxies in the "red shift" are actually rotating on a vast cosmic four-dimensional "Ferris wheel" that has spheroid-like properties.
The title of this discussion is inspired by a surrealist film, "The Crazy Ray," directed by French filmmaker Rene Clair. The astrophysics angle is emerging from heated replies to other questions or discussions involving physics, mathematics, chemistry, astronomy, cosmology, and related disciplines made by many scientists, including the following (other names may be added):
@Peter Jackson - According to Peter Jackson of the Royal Society of London (Cf. Sir Isaac Newton), the universe is dynamically striving toward equipoise of contending forces, which, when balance is attained, will ultimately be transformed into something else, as yet undetermined.
@Thierry De Mees - According to Thierry De Mees, an editor and the author of scientific books and many articles, the universe is static with respect to space, infinite relative to time, and sustained by phenomenal "gravitational curl".
There seem so many different ideas that it has become a matter of choice. I would be surprised if the universe is not subject to change although all these ideas appear to hold to in beginnings and ends-states predicted I suspect by our own limited lifespans. Time itself may not be so predictable.
The problem or redshift (and blueshift) can be solved for every model by strongly mathematical way. It is necessary to solve the system of null geodesic equations for given model. Considering this system in the form of physical observed values for arbitrary metric we see that the observed frequency depends on: 1) gravitational force acting in 3-space; 2) rotation of 3-space; 3) on its summary actions. But the value of the observed frequency does not depend from deformation of 3-space. It means that it is incorrectly to explain redshift as the spreading of the 3-space of the Universe. It means that Friedman's models cannot explain redshift. Calculating the null geodesic equations for different models we obtain different results. For example, redshift takes a place for de Sitter bubble in the collapce condition. Moreover. we find that redshift increases near horizone of events.
Larissa, suppose the Red Shift is due to interstellar systems being pulled away from each other by an enveloping Event Horizon? Closer to the Event Horizon, interstellar bodies would exhibit a Blue Shift. And according to the theory proposed by my Paper contained within my ResearchGare project, some interstellar bodies would not show any shift as they would be located within an Event Horizon Lagrangian zone.