03-November-2004, 08:24 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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Re: Quantized Redshifts
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Astronomy wrote
The first claimed observations of quasar redshift quantization came in 1976 by astrophysicist Y.P. Varshni. He presented his data with three possible interpretations, one of which is that Earth was in the center of the universe. Varshni wrote (in Astrophysics and Space Science, 1976, 43:3)
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In 1970, William G. Tifft, astronomer at Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona showed that a few dozen galaxies were situated from Earth at specific redshifts, namely, in multiples of 72 km/sec in redshift values, as recorded in "Global Redshift Periodicities:
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Then surely Tift was the first (as I have always understood).
Cheers Lyndon
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