Optical Spectroscopy of Hydrogen and Deuterium

In my previous blog post, I suggested that protons and neutrons have become more massive over time, and that this is the cause of the red-shift observed in quasars. It is not the electron that has become more massive, as Halton Arp suggested, but the nucleus of atoms.

This presupposes that there will be a blue-shift if the nucleus of an atom were to gain mass.

Luckily for us, we know that this is the case. From comparing the light specter of Hydrogen and Deuterium, we can see that Deuterium is blue-shifted relative to Hydrogen. Since Deuterium is chemically identical to Hydrogen, the observed blue-shift is proof that the light specter of atoms blue-shift when they become more massive.