The New Redshift Interpretation Affirmed

In late 1997 I published (Mod. Phys. Lett. A 12 (1997) 2919; astro-ph/9806280) the discovery of the New Redshift Interpretation (NRI) of the Hubble relation and the 2.7K CBR, which showed for the first time that it was possible to explain these phenomena within the framework of a universe governed by Einstein’s static-spacetime general relativity instead of the Friedmann-Lemaitre expanding-spacetime paradigm. Recently Carlip and Scranton (astro-ph/9808021) claim to have found flaws in this discovery based on the assumption that the NRI represents a static cosmological model of the universe. This assumption is incorrect, and I show their misunderstanding of this fundamental point is what led them to come to erroneous conclusions about the NRI. I show the NRI very definitely encompasses an expanding universe wherein galaxies are undergoing Doppler recession according to the Hubble relation and, moreover, that—contrary to Carlip and Scranton’s claim—that the NRI does yield the correct form of the Hubble magnitude-redshift relation. Lastly I note that Carlip and Scranton signally fail to respond to the general relativistic results wherein I show (gr-qc/9806061) that the universe is governed by