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A cosmoloǵical basis for hyperbolic velocity space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

S. J. Prokhovnik
Affiliation:
University of New South Wales, Sydney

Abstract

It is shown that a cosmological model of light propagation associated with a uniformly expanding universe provides a physical significance to the hyperbolic velocity space by which this model can be described. Some implications of this result are discussed.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1970

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