Apparent Size

Objects appear larger than they should at high redshifts. This observation is a hard constraint on the mechanism of cosmological redshift, and has been used to demonstrate inconsistency in previous tired-light models.

The following is a rough interactive simulation of the diffraction pattern of two identical sources of light. The redshift factor is the total redshift (z) at the far-right edge of the simulation (assumes linear relationship). You can see that as the redshift increases, the size of the diffraction pattern also increases. Since an image is essentially a complex diffraction pattern focused onto a detector, it stands to reason that an image of a redshifted galaxy would be subject to the same effect, rendering the observed size to be larger than the actual object.

2D Light Wave Interference Simulation

2D Light Wave Interference Simulation

Wave Parameters

Wave Sources

Redshift Effect


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