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- From: ynecgan@cid.aes.doe.CA (Greg Neill)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Are redshifts discrete?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep16.034055.6005@cid.aes.doe.CA>
- Date: 16 Sep 92 03:40:55 GMT
- References: <1992Sep8.133544.1@venus.iteb.serpukhov.su> <5323@tuegate.tue.nl> <18o520INNf34@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Organization: Environment Canada (CID), Dorval, QC
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- In article <18o520INNf34@agate.berkeley.edu> ted@physics.Berkeley.EDU (Emory F. Bunn) writes:
- >In article <5323@tuegate.tue.nl> johan@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Johan Wevers) writes:
- >>malova@venus.iteb.serpukhov.su writes:
- >>>
- >>> Some years ago I read about discrete distribution of redshifts.
- >>> What is now? Is the idea alive?
- >>
- >
- <<<stuff deleted>>>
- >
- >These results have not been confirmed, and there have been suggestions
- >that the statistical significance of the effect has been greatly overestimated.
- >From my vantage point, which is somewhere on the periphery of this
- >field, it looks like most of the experts don't believe the effect is
- >real, although a thoroughly convincing refutation of the work
- >has not been offered.
- >
- >-Ted
-
-
- A recent article (few months back) in either Sky & Telescope or
- Astronomy addressed this topic. It seems that a new study which
- included a much broader sampling of galaxies also showed the
- quantization effects, consistent with the original study. According to
- the article every effort was made to eliminate systematic errors as
- a possible explanation. So who knows?
-
- Maybe we're seeing a result of some neat physics from the inflation era?
- Could it be that inflation occurred in shells, like an onion exploding
- layer by layer? Hey, maybe this basic quantization size will turn out
- to be the width of a proton as expanded from the BB to the present!
-
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