Edwin Hubble's original data

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From: Richard
Date: 2007/06/11 Mon PM 04:43:50 CDT
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Subject: Edwin Hubble's original data

After examining the SDSS data, I asked the help desk at the project
for some guidance in working with the data to find changes in distance
from the Earth so I could measure changes in distance over time. The
help desk responded that it would not be possible to use SDSS data
to measure changes in distance over time. Briefly, they commented:
Note that you will not be able to measure changes in distance at
multiple times. Objects at cosmological distances (d)o not change in
position on human timescales; to perform this kind of measurement, the
survey would have to last much, much longer...
If this is correct, I think my planned test to measure inflation along
the t-axis is, colloquially speaking, toast. Is this planned "experiment"
doomed? Is there a way using red-shifts or some other indicator of
velocity, distance, and relative position to measure the velocity or
acceleration of the Big Bang along the time axis? I could swear that
I read that this was well established and that the whole debate about
the Big Crunch was based on measures of the rate of acceleration in the
inflation of the BB. Doesn't that mean there is some way to measure the
rate of expansion?Ã~BÂ* TIA.
-- Richard S. Sternberg,

I couldn't make any sense of the data yet but I only gave it quick
glance. I had no idea of the precision of the data but clearly if we're
talking about the change in velocity over, say, 100 years it would be
very small in relation to its total velocity based on age of universe of
~ 16 billion years so the data would have to be very precise to detect
changes that were meaningful.