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Guessing you saw the article on the lack of quantisation jitter on quasar light then, then? :)

• richardjordan 14y ago
  Right. Which is interesting on a whole host if levels. Though, this is more of a macro experiment. You're really measuring distribution of "walls" and "filaments" of matter in the universe by measuring the hydrogen absorption lines ... As the lines get shifted and new ones occur you get a sort of barcode pattern, each possibility distinctive of certain histories of expansion and build up of structure. There should be clear signatures of, for example inflection points where an expansion switches to contraction or a slowing expansion flips to an accelerating one.
  • madaxe 14y ago
    You may find http://www.astro.auth.gr/~tsagas/Publications/Journals/MNRAS/MNRAS6.pdf http://www.astro.auth.gr/~tsagas/Publications/Journals/MNRAS... interesting if you haven't seen it already, suggesting FLRW could still be consistent with observations. But yeah, totally agree that this would be a neat simulation to run!
    • richardjordan 14y ago
      That is a interesting paper. I'm gonna read it later. The dipole observations related to galactic spin was a fascinating discovery a while back. More evidence for an "axis" presents some interesting cosmological possibilities. Thanks for this evenings reading assignment :-)
      • madaxe 14y ago
        No worries. Nights are best spent trawling through papers, gently blowing one's mind. Always a pleasure finding someone else passionate about cosmology!
        • richardjordan 14y ago
          Everything else is just stamp collecting ;-)