Session JF - General Poster Session.
POSTER session, Tuesday morning, November 09
Brussels/Vienna, Sheraton Chapel Hill
The Hubble constant varies from ~30 to ~150 km/s per megaparsec distance, depending on the "kind" of galaxy, the direction to it, etc. factors, unexplainable by the "expanding universe" model. The non-constancy of the Hubble constant also troubles this model, that requires the expansion rate of the universe at any given distance to be the same in all directions. But the original 1929 physical Hubble-Humason Law states that galaxial redshifts (HHR) are proportional to distance. This strengthens our presentation of HHR as Einstein's Gravitational Redshifts (EGR): they increase with distance, because the number of gravitationally distorted regions of space increases with the distance crossed by light. EGR values depend also on the direction to a galaxy, because the concentrations of distorted regions depend on this direction. Absorptional Redshifts (M.Simhony, The Epola Space, 1990, 160 pp, and The Story of Matter and Space, 1999, 70 pp (available from the author). M.Simhony, Invitation to the Natural Physics of Matter, Space, and Radiation, World Scientific, 1994 (292 pp). See the website: http://come.to/natural_physics) (due, e.g., to absorption followed by re-emission of lower energy quanta) behave similarly. The temperatures, stability, etc., of atoms and atomic matter in a galaxy may affect the Hubble constant due to Orbit Adjustment Redshifts and Blueshifts. ^1 With no physical reason for an "everything runaway from us", some galaxies may move toward us, causing blueshifts and so contributing to the variability of the Hubble constant.