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Dark Matter, Spiral Arms and Giant Comets

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On the scales of cosmological, galactic and planetary systems, we come across prominent categories of matter whose relevance, to one another, is not usually perceived as being particularly close: dark matter, spiral arms and giant comets. Our understanding of these categories is discussed here in the context of two assumptions regarding the nature of the physical substratum. i.e.,whether it is expanding or stationary. In particular, it is emphasized that these assumptions are, themselves, dependent on the adopted process by which electromagnetic radiation is transmitted, leading to a certain arbitrariness at present in our understanding of the origin of the cosmological redshift. Accordingly, the halo-disc discrepancies and quantization effects amongst cosmological redshifts should now be taken into consideration. If these new physical effects prove to be real, a logical basis for returning to Lorentzian theory would now appear to exist.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK

    S. V. M. Clube

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  1. Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching bei München, Germany

    Halton C. Arp

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  3. Jagiellonian University Astronomical Observatory, Cracow, Poland

    Konrad Rudnicki

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Clube, S.V.M. (1993). Dark Matter, Spiral Arms and Giant Comets. In: Arp, H.C., Keys, C.R., Rudnicki, K. (eds) Progress in New Cosmologies. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1225-1_13

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