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Shane in response... ofcourse the standard doppler shift / velocity shift forms a component of local redshift... and well understood by honking a car horn as you drive by.... my interest or "wonder" is more at the extra galactic scales... particularly relating to hubble's expanding universe and all the objects that don't fit on a tidy hubble diagram.
Particularly interesting is the observed quantization of redshifts... which in the popular expanding homogeneous universe, simply isnt going to happen....
I've really enjoyed reading the papers and works by: G & M Burbidge, J Narlikar, H Arp on Quasars and their observations.... and Tom Van Flandern (i think is his name) has a cool book on push gravity and gravity shielding, relating to black holes... Also Eric Lerner's work on Plasma cosmology is interesting too... although i think he's moved more into power generation these days.
Some really interesting books from some of these guys include:
Halton Arp "Seeing Red - Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science"
This ones jam packed of observations on quasars and quantized redshifts (particularly of the two local galaxy clusters virgo.. and our viewable fornax)... whether you accept the theory or not, a cool feature of this book is to see and understand the graphs and charts that the pros use in papers...
Tom Van Flanderns - Dark Matter, Missing Planets (or something like that)... i like his psuh-gravity theory in this book.... and gravitational shielding leading to black holes... the mars stuff is pushing it a bit for me... but hey fun to read...
Eric Lerner - The Big Bang Never Happened (or something like that)... really cool stuff on the effects of plasma and EMF on our universe and on large scale structures...
It's my feeling that Black Holes, Dark Matter, Dark Energy at the moment are just comfortable mathematical solutions for some serious head scratching.... with the goal posts moving continuously...
Alot of big scopes are due to turn on soon... it's only just heating up i recon... woo hoo
All the best
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