Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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When light passes through the universe and is redshifted by the expansion of space itself, how is energy conserved? The stretched light has a longer wavelength and therefore a lower energy. Is energy conserved? If so, where does it go?

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