Reflections and Thoughts on Tired Light

TL;DR

This paper reviews tired light theories, discusses their main objections, and highlights new work on the constancy of light speed that could make tired light explanations more plausible.

Contribution

It introduces new insights linking the constancy of light speed to tired light theories, addressing previous objections to their mechanism.

Findings

New work suggests a possible mechanism for energy loss in light.

Constancy of light speed may support tired light explanations.

Potential to explain cosmological phenomena with revised tired light models.

Abstract

The position of the various tired light theories is reviewed briefly and it is noted that one of the biggest objections to them concerns the mechanism by which light might lose energy as it travels through space. Here some new work relating to the constancy of the speed of light is highlighted as providing a possible solution to this conundrum, thus making more feasible explanation of phenomena via theories involving the notion of tired light.