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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Main Authors: X. Sarazin, F. Couchot, A. Djannati-Ataï, M. Urban
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2018-06-01
Series:European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5932-8