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No, it's literally just lost. (This means that for the universe as a whole, energy is actually not conserved!)
Comment by TeeDeeArt at 17/07/2022 at 07:55 UTC*
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Right, but as light has a gravitational effect, as it was stretched and lost energy, did the redshirting of light as the universe underwent inflation then expansion then serve to further accelerate the expansion? Not that it directly fed the expansion, the energy is just lost sure, but did this loss of energy and gravitational influence then mean that there was even less gravity holding everything together, thus accelerating the expansion.
It all seems to flow together in a if A then B then C kinda way, the only question is how big the effect is (or was)