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THE suggestion made by de Sitter in 1917, based on the general theory of relativity, that distant celestial objects would appear to be moving away from us, and the subsequent experimental discovery that the extra-galactic nebulæ have radial velocities which are a simple linear function of their distances—these have been followed by consequences sufficiently exciting, even to a generation which has witnessed an almost complete revolution in our physical notions. The discussion arranged in Section A of the British Association at the Leicester meeting, focusing as it did a number of these later developments, roused very general interest.
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F., A. The Expanding Universe. Nature 132, 501–502 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132501a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132501a0