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Originally Posted by JimJast
I imagine that the angular size of galaxies have to be bigger than it would be in Euclidean space because of the curvature of space and it is rather easily predicted effect for a given radius of curvature of space (which Einstein's physics predicts it to be 4.3 Gpc for "Einstein's universe") but I didn't do any work on it yet. Do you know what curvature this increased diameter predicts?
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Well, I'm probably out of my depth here, but there has been a lot of work done on the flatness of space in recent years, and it seems as if the observable universe is within 2% of being flat, across a comoving distance of 24 Gpc (
Extending the WMAP Bound on the Size of the Universe). The conclusion is that if space
is curved, the radius of that curvature is far larger than our observable universe.
So, if that is the case and the curvature of space isn't the cause of the increase in the apparent angular diameter of galaxies with redshifts of z>1.6, doesn't that blow any ideas of a static universe as described by your model, out of the window?