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Originally Posted by Cougar
Then you 'll want to read through this 2-year-old BAUT thread where Ryan Scranton, the lead researcher associated with the above-mentioned journal article showed up and made some significant clarifications on the issue. |
OK, I went there and it referenced a page about
200,000 quasars can't be wrong. Unfortunately the article makes the claim that quasars will be brightened by gravitational lensing but doesn't really explain the method. According to my logic, if you make some part of the distant sky brighter by expanding it, you must make some other correspondingly part dimmer by contracting it. It is a simple fact that the totally area of the sky must be conserved by the lensing. So why would quasars be brighter on average?