The Origins of Redshift in a Static Universe

There is increasing observational evidence from the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope missions that we do not inhabit an expanding universe as described by the ΛCDM cosmological model, but rather a static universe. Such a universe has been postulated as the natural consequence of an extended theory of gravity that is based on the Exochronous (timeless) metric, ΣGR. The main challenge that faces any static universe model is the need to account for the observed cosmological redshift-distance relationship, as defined by the Hubble parameter. Up to now this has been explained by the so-called `tired light’ effect, but this suffers from numerous shortcomings. We propose here a mechanism based on the contraction of atomic matter: the Jeans Contraction, named after the physicist who first suggested this phenomenon as a source of cosmological redshift. We show how this postulated contraction of atomic matter is in fact a natural and inevitable consequence of the application of the Schwarzchild metric of General Relativity.