14. Cosmology: The Static Ocean and Soliton Relaxation
Standard cosmology relies on the "Metric Expansion of Space" to explain why distant light is red-shifted and why distant events (like Supernovae) appear to happen in slow motion ("Time Dilation"). CMFT provides a strictly mechanical alternative that necessitates a Static, Infinite Universe.
1. The Mechanism: Flux Drag and Adiabatic Relaxation
To understand Redshift without expansion, we must distinguish between the two fundamental types of matter in the Corley framework:
- Closed Solitons (Matter): Particles like electrons and protons are closed topological loops (toroids or knots). They are "quantized" by their own geometry. They cannot slowly lose energy to the vacuum; they are structurally locked. This protects atoms from dissolving due to vacuum friction.
- Open Solitons (Light): A photon is an Open Helical Shear Wave. It is not topologically locked; it is held together by the Tension of its momentum flux against the vacuum pressure. It acts like a compressed spring traveling through a viscous medium.
As a photon travels through the high-pressure vacuum, it experiences Flux Drag (magnetic viscosity). It loses internal energy to the substrate. Because the photon is an Open Soliton, this energy loss manifests as a loss of Tension.
2. The "Slinky Effect": A Formal Derivation of Time Dilation
Standard "Tired Light" theories historically failed because they proposed mechanisms (like scattering) that would redden light without stretching the signal duration. This contradicted observations of distant supernovae, which appear to explode in slow motion. CMFT resolves this by strictly defining the photon as a structural object: an Open Helical Shear Wave (a spring).
The Geometric Coupling Proof
In the Hydrodynamic model, a photon is a packet of flux with a physical number of coils (Ncoils) and a physical packet length (Lpacket).
Axiom 1: Conservation of Propagation Speed.
The speed of the photon is determined by the medium's bulk modulus, not the source. Therefore, the
propagation speed is constant (c).
Axiom 2: Structural Relaxation.
As the photon fights vacuum viscosity ("Flux Drag"), it loses internal tension. A loss of tension in
a helical spring results in physical elongation. The wavelength (λ) and the total packet
length (Lpacket) are structurally coupled.
Tobs = Lpacket / c
2. The Relaxation Factor:
If tension loss causes the wavelength to stretch by factor (1 + z), the entire structural packet must stretch by the same ratio:
Lnew = Loriginal × (1 + z)
3. The Resulting Duration:
Tnew = (Loriginal × (1 + z)) / c
Tnew = Toriginal × (1 + z)
Conclusion: A distant event appears to happen in slow motion not because the space between ticks has expanded, but because the signal itself has physically uncoiled. The movie arrives at the projector with a stretched tape. This derives the exact relativistic time dilation factor from pure mechanics.
3. The Infinite Cycle: Nucleation and Drainage
With expansion removed, the universe is revealed as an Infinite, Static, and Eternal Momentum Flux Ocean. It has no beginning and no end; it only has local weather.
Galaxies are Local Nucleation Events. Supermassive Black Holes are not gravity traps, but Pressure Vents. They accumulate tired, expanded flux until the internal pressure exceeds the local vacuum confinement. The system then nucleates (Quasar phase), recycling the energy back into tight, high-frequency hydrogen, which coalesces into new stars. The universe is a perpetual hydraulic engine.