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Time, Distance, Velocity, Redshift: a personal guided tour

T. Kiang

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0308010

Abstract

An attempt to answer the question 'Can we observe galaxies that recede faster than light ?' led to a re-examination of the notions of time, distance, velocity and redshift as they occur in newtonian physics, special relativity, general relativity and cosmology. A number of misconceptions were uncovered. It was found that, once freed of special relativity preconceptions, the above question is easily and unequivocally answered

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