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Observational Evidence for Discretization Phenomena

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Relativity and the Question of Discretization in Astronomy

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Two sets of observables are involved in the investigations of the macroscale discrete distributions described in this chapter. These are the angular diameters of galaxies and their redshifts. It has long been assumed that these parameters are independent, but evidence is given in the case of cluster galaxies for the existence of their interdependence. This interdependence leads from the discretization of diameters, discussed in Part A to the discretization of cluster redshifts, taken up in Part B.

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  1. Center for the Application of Mathematics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, USA

    Dominic G. B. Edelen

  2. Department of Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

    Albert G. Wilson (Director of the Lowell Observatory and Staff Member of the Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories)

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Edelen, D.G.B., Wilson, A.G. (1970). Observational Evidence for Discretization Phenomena. In: Relativity and the Question of Discretization in Astronomy. Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy, vol 20. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88084-1_6

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