Submitted by JarasM t3_100snke in askscience
15_Redstones t1_j2nj0as wrote
Reply to comment by cheeseitmeatbags in Is any "movement" visible in the fluctuations of the CMB over time, or does it appear static? by JarasM
Redshifting slows down the frequency of light. But the total amount of oscillations of the light signal isn't affected.
Suppose a far away galaxy sends a 1 second long burst at 1 GHz, 1 billion cycles. At Earth it arrives redshifted to twice the wavelength, and a frequency of 0.5 GHz. We still receive 1 billion cycles, they're just spread over 2 seconds of time now. So we effectively see the signal - and everything else from that distant galaxy - at 0.5 speed.
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