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Evidence on the Evolutionary Character of the Universe derived from Recent Red-shift Measurements

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Hoyle and Burbidge1 have recently examined the red-shifts of a number of quasi-stellar radio sources2,3 and have plotted their radio flux densities (S) against red-shift (z); they conclude that the results are inconsistent with a cosmological interpretation of these red-shifts.

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  1. Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge,

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LONGAIR, M. Evidence on the Evolutionary Character of the Universe derived from Recent Red-shift Measurements. Nature 211, 949–950 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/211949a0

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