Cosmology Old and New

Author(s): G R Jain
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith

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Shri Deepak Basu of the Institute of Radio Physics, Calcutta published a very learned article in the Science and Culture in April 1964. He wrote as follows:
"The well-known red shift has been explained recently from Einstein's theory of Relativity as due to gravitational field of the galaxies. In case this theory is accepted the idea of the expansion of universe will be ruled out.”
In the Science Reporter for January 1972 on page 28 we read as follows:
"The red shifts of galaxies are found to be small while those of Quasars are large. The large red shifts of Quasars have been interpreted by astronomers as cosmological red shifts similar to those of distant galaxies, but the view has also been advanced that they are really Einstein shifts resulting from enormously strong gravitational fields at their surfaces. This controversy has continued for a number of years, but a recent study of the Quasar 3C279 by long baseline interferometry has cast serious doubts on the familiar interpretation of red shifts and their relationship to cosmological distances. It seems as though the red shift/ distance relationship is going to be thrown overboard, at least as far as the Quasars are concerned..... Therefore it is clear that if the Quasar is at the distance that its red shift implies, the emitters, according to Hubble's formula, would be moving at a speed ten times the speed of light. The next question is: Can a body attain that speed? The answer is obviously, 'No'... The very picture of the universe seems to need a revision.'
The above quotations have fully verified that the universe is not expanding and thus the theory of a finite universe of the Jainas has been wonderfully confirmed. We wrote in 1937 that the red shift of the spectral lines must be attributed to some other cause not to the expansion of the universe.
(ii) Aether, the medium of motion, cannot be eliminated out of
the scheme of the universe. It is a non-material medium and
3. Quasars are extremely brilliant celestial bodies situated almost at the fringe of the universe wherein matter is very highly concentrated.
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