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- From: Richard.Mathews@West.Sun.COM (Richard M. Mathews)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Re: Quasars: near versus far
- Date: 12 Aug 1992 13:21:00 -0700
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- metares@well.sf.ca.us (Tom Van Flandern) writes:
- > Consider the Big Bang. The idea began with the observation of a
- >redshift-brightness correlation.
-
- You keep repeating this same historically incorrect statement. Einstein
- was already aware that GR requires expansion/contraction of the universe
- in 1917 when he wrote
- "Kosmologische Betrachtungen zur allgemeinen Relativatstheorie,"
- Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, Sitzber. 142-152.
- Friedmann Cosmology was born with Friedmann's 1922 paper
- "Uber die Krummung des Raumes," Z. Phys. 10, 377-386.
- The same idea was derived independently by Lemaitre in 1927 (sorry, no
- reference).
-
- On the other hand, the observation of the redshift-brightness correlation
- was not made until 1929, published by Hubble as
- "A relation between distance and radial velocity among extragalactic
- nebulae," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S. 15, 169-173.
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