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- QUASAR is a text file entitled Quasars: Near Versus Far by Tom Van
- Flandern (dated April, 1993). The author uses this text file to argue
- the premise that Quasars, while ordinarily assumed to be objects far
- towards the "edge" of the Universe are actually relatively nearby
- objects. Evidence ordinarily used to prove their extreme distance
- (large redshifts and others) may be interpreted to prove Quasar's
- distance, but that that interpretation is not necessitated by the data.
- He seeks to show that by the principle of Occam's Razor, the evidence
- points to the nearness of Quasars. Interesting reading. Not convincing
- to me, but well thought out, evidenced, and interesting. Having Quasars
- "nearby" would certainly cause a paradigm shift in astrophysics!
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