Nearby galaxies as pointers to a better theory of cosmic evolution.
The great advances in the network of cosmological tests show that the relativistic Big Bang theory is a good description of our expanding Universe. However, the properties of nearby galaxies that can be observed in greatest detail suggest that a better theory would describe a mechanism by which matter is more rapidly gathered into galaxies and groups of galaxies. This more rapid growth occurs in some theoretical ideas now under discussion.
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Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA. pjep@princeton.edu
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