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We explore the author’s recent proposal that the anomalous acceleration of the galaxies might be due to the displacement of nearby galaxies by a wave that propagated during the radiation phase of the Big Bang.
Mathematics Subject Classification (2010). Primary 83B05; Secondary 35L65.
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Temple, B. (2012). The “Big Wave” Theory for Dark Energy. In: Finster, F., Müller, O., Nardmann, M., Tolksdorf, J., Zeidler, E. (eds) Quantum Field Theory and Gravity. Springer, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0043-3_3
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