After astronomers decided realised that the universe might be is expanding they introduced the '''Hubble constant''' as the measure of speed of this hypotetical expansion as a ratio of assumed recession velocity of galaxies to their distance. The '''Hubble constant''' equals approximately , for <math>v\ll c</math>
:<math>H_oH_0=v/c/r</math>,
where <math>v</math> is assumed speed of recession of a galaxy, <math>c</math>, speed of light in vacuum, combined with <math>v</math> producing ''"redshift"'' <math>Z=vcv/c</math>, and <math>r</math> is distance from the observer to the observed galaxy, and its exact value turned out to be
:<math>H_o=c/R_E</math>,
where <math>R_E</math> is [[Einstein's radius of universe]]. Present observations indicate that the Hubble constant is about 70 km/s/Mpc.
The recessional velocity turned out not to be proportional to the distance though and so the '''Hubble constant''' is refered referred to the the nearest galaxies for which it may be considered to be relatively constant.
The [[Essay:Problems in Cosmology]] explains the possibility of the '''Hubble constant''' being a feature of universe that is stationary (neither expanding nor contracting) and the recessional velocity of galaxies being an illusion caused by the time runing running slower at the deep space galaxies than in our Galaxy which mimics the accelerating expansion.
The observations of [[cosmological redshift]]s are consistent with the universe being stationary and [[quasarsquasar]] s being local rather than remote objects as already suggested by [[Halton Arp]] .<ref> Halton Arp, ''"Quasars, Redshifts and Controversies"'', 1987. </ref>.==See also==*[[Hubble Law]]
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