Hubble law


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Related to Hubble law: Hubble constant, redshift, Doppler effect
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Noun 1. Hubble law - (astronomy) the generalization that the speed of recession of distant galaxies (the red shift) is proportional to their distance from the observer
law of nature, law - a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics"
astronomy, uranology - the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole
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In the present study, a time-varying Hubble coefficient in the Euclidean framework is introduced assuming that the Hubble law observed in the LTD framework is still applicable in the Euclidean framework.
Change of measure between light travel time and Euclidean distances
On this assumption, the flight time of photons between emission and reception is [t.sub.S] = [D.sub.C]/c, which is proportional to the [D.sub.C] that goes into the linear Hubble law.
Hubble diagram test of expanding and static cosmological models: the case for a slowly expanding flat universe

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