On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 2:50 PM, <agrayson2...@gmail.com> wrote:

*​> ​Does it split into two photons, each having the same energy as the
> original photon?​ * If so, where does the added energy come from.


It doesn't need to come from anywhere because we've known for nearly a
century that in General Relativity energy is NOT conserved at the largest
scale. Consider light energy, as the universe expands all the light photons
in it gets red-shifted and lose energy. Or consider the energy of empty
space, Dark Energy. As the universe expands there is more space and thus
more Dark Energy.

Another way of looking at it is with Noether's theorem, it says energy is
conserved if the laws that govern the way particles move does not change
with time, but they do change with time, the space through which particles
move is not only expanding it is accelerating. So the conservation of
energy is approximately true locally but not cosmically.

John K Clark

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