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Hubble and his assistant, Milton Humason, began measuring the distances to these receding nebulae and found what is now known as Hubble's Law: the farther away a galaxy is from Earth, the faster it's racing away. Could it be that the universe as a whole is rapidly expanding? That conclusion was extraordinary, almost mind-blowing, yet seemed inescapable...
...compared with $3,000 ten years ago, also paid taxes of $964 as against $276 when he bought his 345-acre farm nine years ago. Thus, in many U.S. areas, bankers and merchants reported increases in credit buying and loan extensions by farmers. Said Tractor Dealer Dan Humason of Kings County, Calif.: "We carry them. Lord knows we carry them. We've carried some of them ten months, and that's longer than their mothers carried them...
...universe exploding-expanding swiftly into the uttermost reaches of space? Scientists have been puzzling over the startling speculation ever since the 1920s, when Mount Wilson Astronomers Edwin Hubble and Milton Humason discovered that the glow from distant galaxies was of a longer wave length than normal. Since light from a receding source shifts toward the red (long wave length) end of the spectrum, the Hubble-Humason observations seemed to suggest that far-out galaxies are all speeding away from the earth and from each other...
...dimensions. Colliding light beams may lose some of their energy, says Ward, as photons (particles of light) carom off other photons. The loss of energy might cause a lengthening of wave length, and in light-drenched space such energy-diminishing collisions are highly probable. They could explain the Hubble-Humason red shift...
After the death of Hubble in 1953, his partner, M. L. Humason, kept observing more distant galaxies. In all their spectra he found the "red shift,"- which shows that they are all moving away from the earth and from one another. The most distant ones observed are apparently rushing away at 134 million miles an hour, about one-fifth of the speed of light. Unless some new theory can account for the red shift, cosmologists will have to get along with the expanding universe...