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"Dan Bloomquist" wrote in message
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| Father Haskell wrote:
| > On Mar 5, 12:16 pm, Anthony Matonak
| > wrote:
| >> TMA wrote:
| >>> The only example of perpetual motion in nature is the
| >>> electro-magnetic wave.
| >> Maybe not even that. A physical object, such as a speeding
| >> bullet, loses energy and slows down due to friction in the
| >> atmosphere. Perhaps electro-magnetic waves experience a
| >> kind of ether friction and lose energy as they pass through
| >> space. Light waves losing energy would show as red-shifted
| >> so the more distant an object (star or galaxy) is in space
| >> the more energy the light would have lost getting here and
| >> the more red-shifted it would appear.
| >>
| >> Anthony
| >
| > If energy is lost, the light would dim, but the color
| > would stay the same.
|
| By discrete quanta of energy just poofing out of existence? Red shifting
| is an observed phenomena.

Yes, of course.

| And the underlying mechanism is understood to
| be receding galaxies.

Naive nonsense. That's like saying this pencil is bent
and broken because we can see it is.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/geoopt/optpic/brokpen.jpg