We present evidence for redshift quantization in the Lyman -a forest of several QSOs.
The Ly -a data are at redshifts z from 1.89 to 3.74, and the theory of redshift quantization
proposed by Cocke (1983, 1085) is used to scale the quantization interval (24.15 km s -')
to these high redshift. The sealing depends on the deceleration parameter qo, and the
quantization is present at a statistical significance of greater than 99% for qo = 1/2. This
may be taken as confirming the inflationary model of the early history of the universe. The
significance of the quantization is highest at go rs 0.48, and the width of the peak is about
0.03 . The result can also be seen as providing confirmatory evidence for both the theory
of the redshift quantization and the above value of qo, but at a significance of only 03 %.
The scenario proposed for the relativistic generalization of the theory is that of fermion
wavefunctione and quantum operators in a background Riemannian spacetime satisfying
Einstein's field equations.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/623916 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Cocke, W. J., Tifft, W. G. |
| Contributors | Univ Arizona, Steward Observ |
| Publisher | Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Article |
| Source | Steward Observatory Parker Library SO QB 4 .S752 ARCH |
| Rights | Copyright © All Rights Reserved. |
| Relation | Preprints of the Steward Observatory #846, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1989ApJ...346..613C&db_key=AST&data_type=HTML&format=&high=3ed65e9cd019083 |
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