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Emergence of advance waves in a steady-state universe

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In standard Wheeler-Feynman electrodynamics advanced waves from any source are absolutely canceled by the advanced waves from the absorber responding to that source. The present work shows this cancellation fails over cosmic distances in a steady-state universe. A test of the view proposed earlier, in a paper which assumed failure of cancellation and hoc, that zero-point fluctuations of the electromagnetic field are such emergent advanced waves, is posed. The view entails anomalous slowing of spontaneous transition rates at longer emission wavelengths; available data go against this, furnishing additional argument against the suspect assumption that the universe is steady-state.

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    Present address: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky

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  1. Department of Physics, Kenyatta University College, Nairobi, Kenya

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Hobart, R.H. Emergence of advance waves in a steady-state universe. Found Phys 9, 793–802 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00711109

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