Could Quasars Disprove Time Dilation?
Could Quasars Disprove Time Dilation? Thursday April 22, 2010#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) Research involving one of the key aspects of relativity – time dilation – has run into some snags. When performing a study of distant quasars, Mike Hawkins of Edinburgh’s Royal Observatory discovered a discrepancy which brings a lot of cosmological assumptions into question. Quasars are objects in the center of distant galaxies which send beams of potent electromagnetic energy out. The key thing, though, is that they exhibit a variation in intensity which can be viewed as a regular ticking clock. What Hawkins did was compare the timing of quasars at different distances … and discovered that the time dilation one would expect on the further galaxies (because the universe is expanding) was not taking place. So what does this mean?
