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PECKER, Roberts and Vigier1 have proposed a phenomenological Lagrangian to account for certain galactic redshift anomalies. They gave no quantitative estimate for the magnitude of A, apart from that it had to be much larger than the value (˜ a2) arising from the box diagram (Fig. le) in conventional quantum electrodynamics. They also proposed some experimental tests. Here I point out that a more direct test comes from the rate of the decay of orthopositronium into three photons. The present experimental data2, in fact, already limit the value of A to not more than about 10−1 α.
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CHEW, H. On a Lagrangian proposed by Pecker, Roberts and Vigier. Nature Physical Science 242, 8–9 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/physci242008a0
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