Discovery of Ionospheric 'Hubble' Frequency Shifts and Impact on Gravity Wave Detection and the Age of the Universe?

摘要

Measurements have been made with resolution band widths of a few milliHerz (mHz) of the spectra of various carrier frequencies from 100 kHz to 25 MHz propagated by the Ionosphere. Up to four day plots of carrier spectra with spans of a few Hz reveal small as yet unexplained variations in frequency. Some of these variations approximately correlate with known diurnal, lunar, solar and other seasonal and sporadic effects. But some do not. The slow diurnal components can be explained if the Ionospheric frequency shifts are dependent both on earth orbital and rotation velocities. Are then the faster varying components detecting gravity waves? Also an observed permanent 'red-shift bias appears to be a 'Hubble' effect amplified in the ionosphere? This implies that the cosmological Hubble red-shift may be continuous and not from Doppler shifts of receding galaxies. Then the age of the universe would be considerably longer than the accepted value of 13.8 billion years? A new scheme is proposed for detecting both gravity waves and any local Hubble red-shifts. The scheme is a direct detection method of a reference signal propagated over a long single path, and not requiring the two orthogonal paths of an interferometer. It can in principle cover the gravitational wave frequency range at least of 10~(-6) ＜ f＜ 10~4Hz.