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"I can't honestly say I'm surprised; this sort of petty stupid thing is so sadly common among people who are supposed to be looking for the truth."

I also ran into a similar experience with a Physics professor. The previous day's dicussion led me to derive that different wavelenghts of light moved at different speeds when affected by gravity. My hypothesis was that distant galactic objects, when viewed from earth, were actually showing different views of the object at different times because of the various wavelengths involved in their observation. I thought some sort of correction for the gravity distortion could provide a more accurate understanding of the actual view as perceived on Earth.
After a couple seconds of thought he said their was little galactic matter between the objects and Earth, thus the effect would be negligible. - Instant dismissal.
I still hold my view. Given the great distances involved, and the fact that those most distantly observed objects (i.e. oldest) were part of a more compact universe, with a greater mutual gravitational interaction, any slight variation in speed and angular displacement between different frequencies WILL produce an observable fuzziness. Whether one can mathematically or practically adjust for the distortion {gravity corrected slices of different frequencies "assembled" in a computer?), is still something I don't know. But one thing is certain; I was given the academic bums-rush!

Given the great distances involved, and the fact that those most distantly observed objects (i.e. oldest) were part of a more compact universe, with a greater mutual gravitational interaction, any slight variation in speed and angular displacement between different frequencies WILL produce an observable fuzziness.

Or will it simply result in a slight variation in color (for visually observable wavelengths) or the appropriate counterpart in other invisible spectra? If so, what standard of non- distorted wavelength would one use to compare the subject wavelength to?