Red Shift

When one looks out into space the light from distant objects appears to be shifted towards red...the question is why does this redshifted light change in jumps, or to put it in more correct scientific terms why is it quantized and not smooth like the Big Bang predicts ?

Hi Ark Guy, welcome aboard!There was a thread on this very subject about a year ago, Quantized redshifts strongly suggest that our galaxy is at the centre of the universe. You might want to take a look at it.--Percy

I lack the courage to read the whole thread that Percy linked to, but the point is moot anyway: the apparent "quantization" of red shifts was just an artifact of limited sample size. Hawkins, et al., Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc.6 Aug 2002, online (once upon a time, anyway) at http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0208/0208117.pdf
surveyed 1647 quasar/galaxy pairs and found "no evidence for a periodicity at the predicted frequency in log(1+z), or at any other frequency."Like the "solar neutrino problem" - better data = less confusion.Edit to add:
http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?topic=411...
has a discussion of this with real astronomers contributing.[This message has been edited by Coragyps, 08-23-2003]