Redshift and the breathing medium
RSI reads the supernova pattern called accelerating expansion as part of the medium's breathing history, with a possible directional share from the engine's pressure gradient.
Distant supernovae appear fainter than expected, a pattern standard cosmology reads as the expansion of the universe speeding up. It attributes the acceleration to Dark Energy.
In RSI galaxies are not receding. The redshift is a comparison of clocks across time (Chapter VI), and the same rising rhythm of matter that produces the redshift also shapes how bright distant supernovae appear, as Christof Wetterich's work shows. RSI proposes that the share of the effect that is the same in every direction comes from this breathing history, while the engine's pressure gradient (Chapter XI) adds a share with a direction.
What RSI calls Dynamic Tension Relaxation is one phase of that breathing: the knots and the field's grip on them tighten and slacken together as the medium's folding breathes over the cycle. The breathing is driven by the medium itself, not by the density of matter, which is too small a share of the universe to steer it. What drives the breathing, and how the two shares divide, are still open.
From the paper: Chapter VII, Redshift and the Breathing Medium. Read the full section
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