Misconceptions about the Hubble recession law |
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| Authors: | Wilfred H Sorrell |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63121, USA |
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| Abstract: | Almost all astronomers now believe that the Hubble recession law was directly inferred from astronomical observations. It
turns out that this common belief is completely false. Those models advocating the idea of an expanding universe are ill-founded
on observational grounds. This means that the Hubble recession law is really a working hypothesis. One alternative to the
Hubble recession law is the tired-light hypothesis originally proposed by Zwicky (Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 15:773, 1929). This hypothesis leads to a universe that is an eternal cosmos continually evolving without beginning or end. Such a universe
exists in a dynamical state of virial equilibrium. Observational studies of the redshift-magnitude relation for Type Ia supernovae
in distant galaxies might provide the best observational test for a tired-light cosmology. The present study shows that the
model Hubble diagram for a tired-light cosmology gives good agreement with the supernovae data for redshifts in the range
0<z<2. This observational test of a static cosmology shows that the real universe is not necessarily undergoing expansion nor
acceleration.
An erratum to this article can be found at |
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| Keywords: | Cosmology Hubble recession law Tired-light hypothesis Type Ia supernovae Anomalous dimming effect |
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