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Condensations in a Non-static Universe

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Einstein and Straus1 have recently considered the influence of the expansion of space on the gravitation fields surrounding the individual stars. The paper has attracted considerable attention, but an interesting new result implicit in their work does not seem to have been noted as yet2. The authors consider the cosmological model which, in the usual notation, is where

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  1. Einstein, A., and Straus, E. G., Rev. Mod. Phys., 17, 120 (1945).

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  2. Einstein, A., and Straus, E. G., Rev. Mod. Phys., 18, No. 1 (1946).

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NARLIKAR, V., KARMARKAR, K. Condensations in a Non-static Universe. Nature 158, 550 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158550a0

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