Douglas L. Weller

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Is entropy a better explanation for redshift than dark energy?

A seemingly obvious explanation for redshift in light that has traveled distances on the order of hundreds of millions or billions of light-years would be a slight loss of energy resulting in...

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How can the time dilation predicted by special relativity be confirmed in one reference frame, and contradicted in another reference frame?

In 1971, Joseph Hafele and Richard Keating used atomic clocks to test the prediction of time dilation resulting from motion (special relativity) and gravity (general relativity). In 1972,they...

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Is there a solution to this conundrum on freefall into a black hole?

I've been told: “As measured by proper time, a radially falling traveler quickly reaches and crosses the critical radius of a black hole. The reality that the traveler quickly reaches the...

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