English

Expanding space, quasars and St. Augustine's fireworks

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-10-02 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

An attempt is made to explain time non-dilation allegedly observed in quasar light curves. The explanation is based on the assumption that quasar black holes are, in some sense, foreign for our Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe and do not participate in the Hubble flow. Although at first sight such a weird explanation requires unreasonably fine-tuned Big Bang initial conditions, we find a natural justification for it using the Milne cosmological model as an inspiration.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1409.1708,
  title  = {Expanding space, quasars and St. Augustine's fireworks},
  author = {O. I. Chashchina and Z. K. Silagadze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.1708},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

36 pages, 4 figures, some text and references added, published version

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