TITLE:
Erratum to “Data from Twenty-Three FRB’s Confirm the Universe Is Static and Not Expanding”, [Journal of High Energy Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology 2024, 10, 1152-1177]
AUTHORS:
Lyndon Errol Ashmore
KEYWORDS:
Redshift, Dispersion Measure, Fast Radio Bursts, FRB’s, Tired Light, Static Universe, IGM
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of High Energy Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology,
Vol.11 No.1,
January
26,
2025
ABSTRACT: Dispersion measure in an FRB’s signal is produced by the photons of the radio waves interacting with the free electrons in the IGM. In New Tired Light (NTL), redshifts are produced by the photons of light interacting with these self-same electrons and so, one would expect a direct relationship between the DM of an FRB and the redshift of the host galaxy. However, workers in this field assume expansion and weight the DM by dividing it by the scale factor (1 + z) to allow for expansion. Once this weighting is removed, it was predicted back in 2016 (when the first FRB was localized) and later presented at a conference and published in the proceedings that, as more FRB’s were localized, a graph of DM versus ln(1 + z) would be a straight line of gradient (
m
e
c/
2h
r
e
) or 7.32 × 1025 m−2 in SI units. The original paper had twenty-four data points but this has risen significantly to sixty-four useable FRB’s and so this corrigendum updates that paper so that all sixty-four are used. The data give a straight-line graph of gradient 7.12 × 1025 m−2, a difference of 3% from (
m
e
c/
2h
r
e
) predicted nine years earlier.