Reference: RT115
Date: 22-Dec-94 updated 17-Feb-95
Author: Ray Tomes
Email: rtomes@kcbbs.gen.nz

Following the "publication" of my paper RT107 on usenet in sci.astro
I had intended to analyse a large sample of galaxies for evidence
of the quantisation predicted by the Harmonic Theory.
I followed up a reference, given by Donald C Wells in response
to my paper, by W G Tifft in Astrophysical Journal Vol 221 Pg 756-775
1978 May 1.  The result was a mixture of amazement and elation.
Sixteen years ago Tifft discovered not only the 72 km/s quantum,
but also quanta of 36 km/s, 24 km/s, 12 km/s, and mentions
possible 6 and 3 km/s ones also.  This compares extremely well
with my list of predicted quanta of 144, 72, 36, 24, 18, 12, 9, 6,
4, and 3 km/s.  After corresponding with W Tifft, he has further
reported that red shifts of 146-72-36-18-9 km/s and eight other
such families have been found.  He was of the opinion that this
is the result of chaos theory, but I believe that the pattern is
exactly in line with my theory and cannot be predicted by chaos.
A chi-square test of the predictions versus the values found by
Tifft shows such a good co-incidence has a probability of about
1 in 10^31 (sorry this isn't exact, but my chi-square table doesn't
go anywhere near that far).

This is a success for the harmonic theory, and a
tribute to the skills of Tifft and others in the observation and
analysis of the data.  He was also able to determine very
accurately the true motion of the solar system, because this
introduces a bias into the quantised field of red shifts.

Tifft's accurate determination was 72.135 km/s, compared to my
prediction of 72.153 km/s.  (His stated error is ~ 0.01 km/s)

The following conclusions are inevitable.

1. The red shifts are NOT velocity. The galaxies move by amounts
   which are incredibly small, perhaps of the order of 1 km/s.
   They cannot be velocity, UNLESS we are at the centre of the
   universe.  If the universe is similar in all places, then
   velocities cannot be quantised.  Consider a right angle triangle
   with us at O and galaxies one quantum away at A and B where
   angle AOB is 90 degrees. Then distance AB is 1.414.. quanta.
   This would lead to a loss of quantisation.

2. There was NO "big bang" and the age of the universe is not
   directly related to the Hubble constant.  The universe is at
   least 300 billion years old, and possibly eternal.

3. Because the red shifts are not velocities (apart from our
   motion around the galaxy), they should NOT be quoted in velocity
   units.  They must be quoted as log(1+z) where z is the red shift.

4. The true distance of all bodies are approximately proportional
   to log(1+z) and this value has no limit, meaning that the size
   of the universe is infinite.  The universe only appears
   foreshortened when the relativistic equations due to recession
   (which does not exist) are applied, and so seems finite.