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THE possibility that the gravitational constant G decreases as the Universe expands is a subject of continuing theoretical and experimental interest. Such a cosmology is used here to explain the low luminosity of the ‘missing mass’ in clusters of galaxies, and the ‘heavy haloes’ of spiral galaxies, in terms of the rapid initial evolution of a generation of primordial stars.
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SHIELDS, G. Gravitation, primordial stars and the dark mass. Nature 273, 519–520 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/273519a0
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