if the speed o flight is constant......and doppler shifts are based on relative differences in veolicty......how can blue or red shifts occur?
whether the light source was moving away or towards us the velocity of light would still be measured as the same constant value, so how can this
constant value be used to measure different distances for different stars? The velocities should be the same in each case....
if this were true then surely the same distance would be obtained every time?
I don't think it's constant. It's affected by gravity passing stars, therefore it may under conditions which we can't experience here on earth
slow, or speed up.
doesn't matter, i was pretty tired when i wrote that, lol
after doing a bit of research, it is the change in frequency that is used, not the change in velocity, and although the speed of light is
constant, due to the laws of electormagnetic radiation, the frequency, wavelength and everything else apart from the speed can change.