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Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Contramuffin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You’re confusing 2 different but related concepts. Blueshift and redshift does depends only on velocity. In the cosmological sense, redshift (the opposite of blueshift) occurs because everything is moving away from everything else due to the expansion of the universe, and so the distance of an object can be calculated based on how much redshift there is in the light. Basically, on a cosmological scale, distance and velocity are connected

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  • Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Right, I was thinking of redshift. But now I’m even more intrigued. How does a thing moving toward me shift light blue? It’s not like the space inbetween us is shrinking…. And the speed of light is constant…

    What the heck is blue shift? I need to go hit Google/wikipedia/something smarter than me ;)

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    • protist@retrofed.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The speed of light is constant, however the frequency of light is variable. Similar thing with sound, high pitched and low pitched frequencies travel at the same speed in the same medium

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      • Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yes! Ever heard a car horn coming at you and then going away? It’s the wave compressing and expanding.

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    • Elting@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Red shift and blue shift are exactly the same thing. If you think about light as a wave, like sound, approaching objects have scrunched up waves (blueshifted light) and fleeing objects have spaced out waves (redshifted light). The exact same reason a car horn has higher pitch when it is approaching you and lower pitch when it travels away. The intensity of the effect is correlated to the speed limit of the medium so since light is so fast this effect is typically very small.

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    • Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Interesting, the interwebs just taught me that redshift does occur like the Doppler effect. Similarity blueshift in the other direction. I always thought it was just from space expanding.

      You learn something new everyday!

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    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m sorry to have to break this to you, but if you’re moving at relativistic speeds, the space between you and objects in your direction of travel does indeed shrink! It’s one of the freakier parts of relativity.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    actually cosmological redshift occurs not so much because a velocity difference between source and observer, but because space is expanding while the wave is in it, or so i was told. so the wave continuously gets stretched out, which causes it to redshift. calculating it that way gives slightly different results from normal doppler redshift, i think. so it does matter.

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    • Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They say relative velocity because from our relative perspective they do appear to be moving away from us. It also works when the object is stationary and you are moving towards it or away from it because from your relative position it’s the thing moving away from or towards you.

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      • gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        hmm there might be two effects at work here at the same time.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Basically, on a cosmological scale, distance and velocity are connected

    yeah btw to comment on this: this phenomenon is probably more important than it seems at first glance. because it implies that, while there is neither an absolute position nor an absolute velocity in relativity theory, there is a connection between position and velocity. so, for each position in space, there is an associated zero velocity, or reference velocity, which is the velocity of the cosmos at that location. or at least that’s what i’m lead to believe.

    now, this is not at all obvious. one might argue that that’s bullshit, frankly, but it appears at least 3 times in various aspects of standard models of cosmology:

    • for one, contemporary microwave background. it’s said to be isotropic (and has the shape of a black body radiation) but only if the observer moves with a certain velocity. if you move extremely fast in either way, one side gets blueshifted while the other one gets redshifted, so it’s not isotropic anymore. there’s exactly one (finite!) velocity for which it is most isotropic, which is the “average velocity” of the radiation.
    • then there’s the whole question of how a vacuum energy could possibly be lorentz-invariant. the way i see it, if there is radiation in space everywhere, then that would have to be similar to microwave background (just at another frequency). so it again would have to have a certain average velocity. note that this is different from the previous point because while the previous point uses other objects as reference frame (that might not be present in an alternative universe), this one does not. you cannot have a universe with the same laws as ours that’s completely empty of vacuum energy, so there’s always some reference frame.
    • then there’s the issue that if you go really far back in time, the cosmic expansion is not lorentz-invariant. well, at least not if you look at this curve:

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    if you tilt it somewhat, it’s not isotropic anymore. because while expansion rate is accepted to vary with time, it should be homogenous in space. now, if you do a lorentz-transformation, these two things cannot hold at the same time. so, cosmic expansion wouldn’t be lorentz-invariant?

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• Elting@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The doppler effect you can hear when something loud passes you happens to light too. It would have to be aproaching very fast indeed however to make a red rose appear blue. (Like fast enough to fuse atoms in the atmosphere)

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  • Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thanks! I just learned this - makes sense at fast speeds. Just never thought it was from anything other than space expanding :)

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• Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Doppler shift is based on speed, the result of red shift is that stuff which is moving away fast enough to produce red shift is far away by virtue of being fast and stuff and stuff that is blue shifted needs to be far away or it will collide with you very quickly or just pass you by. The relative speeds required for doppler shift are pretty high speeds so you normally observe it in stuff that’s far away, but distance isn’t really a requirement for doppler shift to happen or be observed.

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