for the longest time, I've rattled on in my HC Unit-conceptual way that, "Big Bang never happened. The universe isn't expanding. Large red-shifted light is not Receeding Light but TIRED LIGHT i.e. light that's shifted into the microwave over the aeons that it's been traveling towards our detectors." I still don't know if I'm right or wrong, but...
I just got into an online conversation with Wal Thornhill of the Thunderbolts Project (The Electric Universe People) and he genially put up with my HC Unit 'tired light' pestering questions for a few rounds before referencing the work of Halton Arp to conclude that, with relation to Quasars, "It's simply assumed that high-redshift equates to distance. Halton Arp showed this is not so. It's an indicator of youthfulness, not distance." This ineresting link Wal shared with me is about Plasma Redshift.
Halton Arp (who died in 2013) got sacked for his beliefs about the true source of red shift, that series of lines in a star's light spectrum by which its red shift is measured. Big Bang theory says, "The greater the red shift, the greater the speed of recession of the source in an Expanding Universe." Halton Arp seems to be suggesting that we still don't know what size the universe might be or how distant any of the stars and galaxies and superclusters might actually be.
