COSMOLOGICAL REDSHIFT AS VACUUM RESONANT RELAXATION

The interpretation of the cosmological redshift as being caused by the expansion of the universe has often been questioned. A recent proposal by Monti that background space may have a very small but finite conductivity appears to be supported by earlier work of the present author on a unified theory based upon a relativistically invariant, semisuperconductive ether of the Einstein-Dirac genre. It is well known that high resistivity at moderate temperature is propitious for superconductivity at very low temperature, relative to the cosmic background radiation (CBR). It is also well known that there is a strict parallel between the Higgs model of broken gauge invariance in the vacuum and the Landau-Ginzburg theory of superconductivity. As a viable alternative to the "expanding universe," it is shown that the Hubble redshift may be interpreted as the resonant relaxation of all four time constants of the vacuum state, given by all timelike ratios and products of the vacuum constitutive parameters. Good quantitative agreement is obtained with the large-scale structure of the universe and with Monti's results.