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. 1974 Mar;71(3):765–768. doi: 10.1073/pnas.71.3.765

A Variant of Special Relativity and Long-Distance Astronomy

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PMCID: PMC388094  PMID: 16592145

Abstract

The redshift, microwave background, and other observable astronomical features are deduced from two theoretical assumptions: (1) global space-time is a certain variant of Minkowski space, locally indistinguishable in causality and covariance features but globally admitting the full conformal group as symmetries although having a spherical space component; (2) the true energy operator corresponds to a certain generator of this group which is not globally scale-covariant, whereas laboratory frequency measurements are inevitably such and correspond to the conventional energy operator [unk]/i[unk]/[unk]t.

Keywords: cosmology, redshift, microwave background, causality, symmetry

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