Tomaschitz, R. (1998). Ether, luminosity and galactic source counts, Astrophysics and Space Science 259, 255-277, DOI: 10.1023/A:1001512103229
Abstract (SpringerLink, CDS, SAO/NASA ADS, Zbl 0948.83078)
An interpretation of the cosmological redshift in terms of a cosmic ether is given. We study a Robertson-Walker cosmology in which the ether is phenomenologically defined by a homogeneous and isotropic permeability tensor. The speed of light becomes so a function of cosmic time like in a dielectric medium. However, the cosmic ether is dispersion free, it does not lead to a broadening of spectral lines. Locally, in Euclidean frames, the scale factors of the permeability tensor get absorbed in the fundamental constants. Mass and charge scale with cosmic time, and so do atomic energy levels. This substantially changes the interpretation of the cosmological redshift as a Doppler shift. Photon frequencies are independent of the expansion factor; their time scaling is determined by the permeability tensor. The impact of the ether on the luminosity-distance, on the distance-redshift relation, and on galactic number counts is discussed. The Hubble constant is related to the scale factors of the metric and the permeability tensor. We study the effects of the ether at first in comoving Robertson-Walker coordinates, and then, in the context of a flat but expanding space-time, in the globally geodesic rest frames of galactic observers.
Zbl
0948.83078
Tomaschitz, Roman
Ether, luminosity and galactic source counts
[J] Astrophys.
Space Sci. 259, No.3, 255-277 (1998). ISSN 0004-640X; ISSN
1572-946X
MSC
2000:
*83F05
Relativistic cosmology
83B05 Observational and experimental questions of relativity
83C10 Equations of motion
Keywords: cosmological redshift; Robertson-Walker cosmology; luminosity-distance; distance-redshift relation; Hubble constant
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Ether, Luminosity and Galactic Source Counts |
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Tomaschitz, Roman |
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AA(Department of Physics, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagami-yama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan; roman@fusion.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp and Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Koramangala, Bangalore 560 034, India) |
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Astrophysics and Space Science, v. 259, Issue 3, p. 255-277 (1998). (Ap&SS Homepage) |
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KLUWER; SPRINGER |
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description: Roman Tomaschitz (1998) Ether, luminosity and galactic source counts, Astrophysics and Space Science 259, 255.
Keywords: cosmic time variation of fundamental constants, dimensionless ratios of fundamental constants, Dirac’s large numbers hypothesis, spacetime structure, absolute space and cosmic time, ether, aether, permeability of spacetime, Robertson–Walker cosmology, Milne universe, hyperbolic 3-space, space expansion and varying fundamental constants, electromagnetism and massive particles in the ether, permeability tensor of the ether, semiclassical mechanics, eikonal equation, ray optics in the ether, cosmological redshift generated by varying fundamental constants, dispersionless redshifts in a permeable spacetime, redshift–distance relation, luminosity distance, quasar counts, Hubble constant and deceleration parameter in a permeable spacetime, atomic clocks, cosmic time scaling of atomic energy levels and Bohr radii
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