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Quantized Redshifts - New Physics or Old Muddle?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

W.M. Napier
W.M. Napier*
Affiliation:
Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, Northern Ireland

Abstract

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The HI redshift distribution of nearby spiral galaxies has been studied to test long-running but generally ignored claims that extragalactic redshifts are periodic or ‘quantized’. The existence of the phenomenon is confirmed at an extremely high confidence level, the quantization appearing in the galactocentric frame of reference. It is proposed that the energy density of the vacuum is a local, oscillating quantity associated with large masses such as spiral galaxies. A variety of ‘anomalies’ should then be detectable in massive galaxies, associated with their redshifts, their ambient gravitational lensing and their dynamics.

Type
III. AGN Theory and Models
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 194: Activity in Galaxies and Related Phenomena , 1999 , pp. 290 - 294
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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