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[DD-B <DYER-BENNET KL2137 AT>: for space digest -- Implacations of quasar findings]
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Date: 1 Mar 1982 1316-EST
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To: young at MARKET
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Subject: for space digest -- Implacations of quasar findings
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I've been wondering if the possible change in the status of quasars is
potentially damaging to large chunks of cosmological theory. So has
a friend, and she took the trouble to dig up at least a little basis
for the worry. The source, of course, is old and not terribly authoritative.
Anybody know anything more about the consequences of not-so-old much-closer
quasars on the rest of our understanding of the universe?
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Date: 1 Mar 1982 1305-EST
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From-the-terminal-of: Pamela C. Dean
Subject: Quasars
Message-ID: <"MS5(1715)+GLXLIB1(1033)" KL2137 AT 11804279832.29.526.32241>
"The mere existence of quasars and BSO's ["blue stellar objects; i.e.,
blue stars as distant, luminous, and small as quasars, but lacking the
characteristic microwave emission, he says elsewhere -- pcd] was a heavy
and perhaps even fatal blow at the steady-state theory. All of them are
very far away and were therefore formed many eons ago. Since none can
be detected in our own neighborhood, it seems that whatever processes
formed them are not operative now... . This, in turn, means that the
Universe was different in important ways, eons ago." Isaac Asimov,
THE UNIVERSE, 1966 -- who knows what they've decided since then?
Anyway, he goes on to say that some astronomers believe that quasars
establish the big-bang theory, confirm theories of how long ago it
was, and even allow them to decide between the hyperbolic and pulsating
versions thereof. Gosh, Professor, sounds important to me.
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