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    Does an Expanding Universe Alter How Quickly Light Travels Through Space?

    As the universe expands, space itself gets "stretched" and objects drift apart, like dots on elastic surfaces when force is applied. So one meter billions of years ago is two meters today, but does it necessarily mean light takes twice as long to travel this "new meter"?
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    Gravity Waves & Gravitons: Exploring the Distortion of Space-Time

    But is space-time a quantum field? Do gravitons theoretically excite this "field"?
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    Can QFT adequately describe the elusive properties of photons?

    The photon follows Maxwell's equation to form a wave according to the wave formula with velocity c. But this is fundamentally different from an electron's wave function that obeys the Schrodinger equation (first partial derivative in time opposed to second...) and that describes the probalistic...
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    Can QFT adequately describe the elusive properties of photons?

    What is the photon's equivalence of the electron's wavefunction? Can I measure qualities of the photon that will collapse into an eigenstate? What properties of the photon aren't fixed?
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    Gravity Waves & Gravitons: Exploring the Distortion of Space-Time

    If a mass bends space-time somehow and then I nudge it, the bend changes. This distortion of space-time bend is supposedly expanding at the speed of light and could be called a "gravity wave" that carries energy. Why is this wave not the distortion that creates a "graviton" like EM and photons?
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