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• Winston H Bostick
  ...ork on plasmas provided evidence for finite-sized elementary particles and the composition of strings. ...eiving Professor Emeritus status at his retirement in 1981, and as head of the physics department from 1968. While visiting Tijuana, Mexico in 1991, he di
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• Gravitational redshift
  ...upwards against a gravitational field (produced by the yellow star below). The effect is greatly exaggerated in this diagram.]] ...ation]], due to the electromagnetic radiation propagating in opposition to the gravitational gradient. There also exists a corresponding [[blueshift]] whe
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• Hubble's law
  '''Hubble's law''' is the name for the observation in [[physical cosmology]] that: ...tely [[Proportionality (mathematics)|proportional]] to their distance from the Earth for galaxies up to a few hundred megaparsecs away.<ref name="riess99"
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• Richard L Amaroso
  * 1979- 1981 Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Computation Facility manager * 1997- present The Noetic Journal, Orinda, Executive Editor
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• Non-standard cosmology
  ...g universe would have been considered non-standard in 1990, but is part of the standard cosmology in 2010. ..., and 68% [[dark energy]].<ref>See [[Planck (spacecraft)#2015 data release|the Planck Collaboration's 2015 data release]].</ref>
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• Cosmic Expansion vs. Galactic Density
  '''Read the full paper''' [http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_pap ...ic densities for the two types of cosmological model. Results suggest that the non-expanding universe may be more consistent, or at least less inconsisten
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• William I Thompson
  ...ark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He holds a masters degree from the University of Colorado Boulder in astrogeophysics. ...and novel methods of deploying meteor burst communication (MBC) systems in the very high frequency (VHF) band at 40 MHz.
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• Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  ...vatory]] in [[New Mexico]], [[United States]]. The project was named after the [[Alfred P. Sloan Foundation]], which contributed significant funding. ...as far as ''z''&nbsp;=&nbsp;5; and the imaging survey has been involved in the detection of [[quasar]]s beyond a redshift ''z''&nbsp;=&nbsp;6.
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• Inertial frame of reference
  ...], the physics of a system in an inertial frame have no causes external to the system.<ref name="Ferraro">{{cite|title=Einstein's Space-Time: An Introduct ...ely describe that region.<ref name=Einstein0>{{Cite book|title=Relativity: The Special and General Theory |author=Albert Einstein |page= 71 |url= https://
  51 KB (7,987 words) - 15:47, 20 July 2017
• Michelson–Morley experiment
  ...s been referred to as "the moving-off point for the theoretical aspects of the Second Scientific Revolution".<ref group=A name=hoover/> ...edy–Thorndike experiment]]s, Michelson–Morley type experiments form one of the fundamental [[tests of special relativity]] theory.<ref name=rob group=A />
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• Lorentz ether theory
  ...assical [[aether theories]] at the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century. ...f Lorentz's theory were incorporated into [[special relativity]] (SR) with the works of [[Albert Einstein]] and [[Hermann Minkowski]].
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• History of special relativity
  {{Redirect|History of relativity|the history of general relativity|history of general relativity}} ...on]], [[Hendrik Lorentz]], [[Henri Poincaré]] and others. It culminated in the theory of [[special relativity]] proposed by [[Albert Einstein]] and subseq
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• Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies
  [[File:Antennae galaxies xl.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The [[Antennae Galaxies]] (Arp 244)]] ...xies are presented in the atlas, which was originally published in 1966 by the [[California Institute of Technology]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Arp|first=Halt
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