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ZEITSCHRIFT FUR NATURFORSCHUNG SECTION A-A JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES
卷 78, 期 6, 页码 525-533出版社
WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
DOI: 10.1515/zna-2022-0307
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cosmological models; general relativity; principle of equivalence; spacetime metric
The evidence for a Universe expanding at a constant rate has been accumulating for over a decade. Recent studies have further strengthened this inference by examining the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker metric in relation to Einstein's principle of equivalence. This paper demonstrates and confirms the result by directly testing the self-consistency of four well-known FLRW cosmologies, showing that only the constantly expanding models are consistent with the principle of equivalence.
The evidence in favor of a Universe expanding at a constant rate, in contrast to the various episodes of deceleration and acceleration expected in the standard model, has been accumulating for over a decade now. In recent years, this inference has been strengthened by a study of the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) metric in relation to Einstein's principle of equivalence. This earlier work concluded that the choice of lapse function g ( tt ) = 1 characterizing the FLRW solution to Einstein's equations is inconsistent with any kind of accelerated cosmic expansion. In this paper, we demonstrate and confirm this important result by directly testing the self-consistency of four well-known FLRW cosmologies. These include the Milne universe, de Sitter space, the Lanczos universe, and the R (h) = ct model. We show that only the constantly expanding models (Milne and R (h) = ct) are consistent with the principle of equivalence, while de Sitter and Lanczos fail the test. We discuss some of the many consequences of this conclusion.
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