The New Cosmology*

The New Cosmology

Greg Hood

 (cghood@alum.mit.edu)

 

Two concepts define this new approach to cosmology. The first is the Hubble-Doppler equation. Unnoticed historically, it relates the galactic red shift to distance, not to recession. Thus, our universe is not expanding, there is no dark energy, and there is no concern about a disparity of matter over antimatter. Our observable universe is thereby limited to a radius of 13.3 billion ly. An observer anywhere in the Universe has an observable universe limited to the same radius. The second concept is Deceleration Alpha, a universal constant of deceleration. It affects both light and matter wherever they travel. Denoted as d-α, its magnitude is comparable to the acceleration in MOND and to the deceleration of the Pioneer spacecraft. D-α is responsible for the galactic redshift, and, when applied to Newtonian orbits, non-Keplerian orbits are the automatic result. Finally, the missing mass problem is not due to dark matter; it is due to not applying d-α in the standard Newtonian calculations of mass.