The Measure of the Universe: A History of Modern CosmologyClarendon Press, 1965 - 436 síður |
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... light " is at bottom a convention'.29 Recalling equations ( 3 ) , the quantity RB / ( TB - t1 ) , which A would clearly designate the mean outward velocity of his signal , is constant and equal to c . The same result is found for the ...
... light " is at bottom a convention'.29 Recalling equations ( 3 ) , the quantity RB / ( TB - t1 ) , which A would clearly designate the mean outward velocity of his signal , is constant and equal to c . The same result is found for the ...
Síða 156
... light depends upon the distribution of matter , and ( even should the model be supposed homogeneous ) as long as its metric is non - static the time taken by light to travel finite distances will depend upon the epoch . Although usually ...
... light depends upon the distribution of matter , and ( even should the model be supposed homogeneous ) as long as its metric is non - static the time taken by light to travel finite distances will depend upon the epoch . Although usually ...
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... light need not tend to the limit zero , ' for the universe may be cyclic'.36 G. E. J. Gheury de Bray37 and V. S. Vrkljan38 had pointed out four years earlier that the velocity of light appeared to be diminishing with time , and quoted ...
... light need not tend to the limit zero , ' for the universe may be cyclic'.36 G. E. J. Gheury de Bray37 and V. S. Vrkljan38 had pointed out four years earlier that the velocity of light appeared to be diminishing with time , and quoted ...
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COSMOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH | 16 |
FIELD THEORIES AND THE WISH TO | 24 |
The Le SageThomson explanation of gravitation | 38 |
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The Measure of the Universe: A History of Modern Cosmology John David North Engin sýnishorn í boði - 1965 |
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