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Cosmological implications of anomalous redshifts—A possible working hypothesis

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An analysis of the most recent experimental data shows that the isotropic and universal proportionality of redshift to distance, predicted for all distant objects by the expanding universe model, cannot be regarded as an established fact at the present stage of experimental knowledge. An interpretation of the conflicting data is given in terms of interactions between nonzero-mass photons and light scalar bosons. This leads to a new, static, Einstein-type hierarchical model of the universe, where the cosmological redshift results essentially from a tired-light effect.

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  1. Observatory and Astrophysics Laboratory, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    T. Jaakkola

  2. Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France

    M. Moles & J. P. Vigier

  3. Collège de France et Institut d'Astrophysique du C.N.R.S., Paris, France

    J. C. Pecker

  4. University of Denver, Denver, Colorado

    W. Yourgrau

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Jaakkola, T., Moles, M., Vigier, J.P. et al. Cosmological implications of anomalous redshifts—A possible working hypothesis. Found Phys 5, 257–269 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00717442

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