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Starting from the hypotheses that the physical space is Euclidean, that the Universe is infinite and homogeneous and that with regard to our galaxy its behaviour is isotropic, without resorting to Newton’s law of gravitation we deduce Hubble’s law, the law of motion of a typical galaxy, the equation of evolution of the Universe, that the force at a distance exerted between any two galaxies is expressed by Newton’s law of gravitation, etc. Adding the hypothesis that the velocity of light is independent of its source, we obtain that the metric of spacetime is necessarily given by the Einstein-de Sitter metric, that the tensorial form of the equations of Newtonian cosmology is given by Einstein’s gravitational equations, etc.
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Galletto, D., Barberis, B. (1984). The Significance of Newtonian Cosmology. In: Berger, A. (eds) The Big Bang and Georges Lemaître. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6487-7_8
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