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This would be very interesting if proved right.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060807_mm_huble_revise.html
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http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0606279 - This may be the paper.
I don't understand one thing, though (btw, I'm still a layman, quite literally, when it comes to cosmological matters). If H were smaller, then would not the galaxies slow down the farther they got, and wouldn't that in turn imply a smaller universe when compared with current estimates?
A project aiming to create an easier way to measure cosmic distances has instead turned up surprising evidence that our large and ancient universe might be even bigger and older than previously thought.
A research team led by Alceste Bonanos at the Carnegie Institution of Washington has found that the Triangulum Galaxy, also known as M33, is about 15 percent farther away from our own Milky Way than previously calculated.
Currently, most astronomers agree that the value of the Hubble constant is about 71 kilometers per second per megaparsec (a megaparsec is 3.2 million light-years). If this value were smaller by 15 percent, then the universe would be older and bigger by this amount as well.
The new finding implies that the universe is instead about 15.8 billion years old and about 180 billion light-years wide.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060807_mm_huble_revise.html
(Please add other links related to this story if you find any.)
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0606279 - This may be the paper.
I don't understand one thing, though (btw, I'm still a layman, quite literally, when it comes to cosmological matters). If H were smaller, then would not the galaxies slow down the farther they got, and wouldn't that in turn imply a smaller universe when compared with current estimates?