Can the apparent expansion of the universe be attributed to an increasing vacuum refractive index ?
Abstract H.A. Wilson, then R.H. Dicke, proposed to describe gravitation by a spatial change of the refractive index of the vacuum around a gravitational mass. Dicke extended this formalism in order to describe the apparent expansion of the universe by a cosmological time dependence of the global vac...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer
2018-06-01
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Series: | European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields |
Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5932-8 |