I cannot tell which is the correct part of the forum for this. Please
move it if somewhere else seems more appropriate.

In order to test the ideas outlined below, I would like to get some
sky survey data. I need both galaxies and quasars for the same
SMALL area of sky. I do not want terrabytes of data, something
like a few MB from a selected sky area would most suit. I would
appreciate advice and perhaps a little assistance from any
experienced astronomers in doing this.

According to Halton Arp, quasars are not at cosmological distances, but
are ejected by nearby galaxies. They are ejected in pairs along the main
axis of the galaxies at fairly regular intervals. Arp gives many
examples of such pairs and they certainly look good to me as they do
indeed have matched pairs for red shift. The closest pairs often have
very high red shifts that then drop as you go outward from the galaxy,
typically in a sequence like (1+z) = 3, 2.4, 2, 1.6, 1.3, 1.06 (from
memory) which values have common ratios of 1.23. He and Narlikar explain
the high red shifts when ejected as due to the matter having lower
vibration frequency and that the frequency increases as the quasar's
matter comes into wave contact with other matter. These ideas are very
consistent with my own ideas about the wave structure of matter and the
increases of frequency of matter over time. Narlikar has shown that his
equations are a general situation in which the standard physics
equations are a special case that assumes mass of particles remains
constant.

I have just been doing some back of the envelop calculations to see how
often the quasar frequencies would change. From galaxy dynamics and the
fact that the quasars do not achieve escape velocity (they probably
eventually go into orbit like our magellanic clouds), I estimate that
they must be ejected at a velocity of the order of 500 km/s. For
galaxies seen other than edge on, this value could be be measured as
~half the difference of the matched pairs velocities unless the random
component is too high. The distances of consecutive quasars after they
are shot out I have assumed are about 50,000 light years from
remembering the photos of Arp. So dividing 50,000 light years by 500
km/s gives the time interval between successive quasar ejections. If I
did the calculation right the answer is very roughly 30,000,000 years.
This is near to the 27,000,000 year mass extinction period and would
certainly explain mass extinctions, because huge changes would happen in
the mass of particles in the quasar at this interval, but as a
consequence the particle masses in the galaxy would also change by a
modest amount. It is worth mentioning that the solar system is believed
to pass through the plane of the galaxy roughly every 30,000,000 years
also. That same figure would apply over much of the galaxy, not just
where we are. So it seems to be a system wide oscillation.

This idea can be tested out much more thoroughly by getting details of
Arps quasar pairs and measuring what we can about them. The ejection
velocity should be able to be determined by the rate of deceleration of
the quasars which only go a certain distance from the galaxy. In fact, I
think that the Magellanic clouds are residual ones of these ejections
long afterwards when they have become more or less in line with ordinary
matter frequencies. I would note that our galaxy does not appear to be
an active galaxy at the present time based on the size of the black hole
at its centre and the lack of extremely bright quasars nearby.

My prediction is that such analysis should show that the ejection period
matches some known mass extinction period or some known geological period.

Just one thing that doesn't make sense to me yet. The phase of the
quasar events is such that we are 1/4 of the way between events right
now. This is calculated by ln(1.06)/ln(1.23) being the most recent
events compared to the event interval. The events themselves would take
place at the galaxy core, so there would be a time delay to reach us. We
are just 30,000 light years from the centre of the galaxy and at the
speed of light any effect would reach us in negligible time compared to
the 1/4 of 30,000,000 years. However on the 27,000,000 year cycle we are
about half way between events and not 1/4. This is a problem with the
idea unless the effect reaches us from the galaxy centre at a speed much
less than the speed of light. It would have to be a speed of the order of
500 km/s which I suppose is quite conceivable of the quasars are
themselves ejected at 500 km/s.