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JACKSON has proposed that the cosmological constant is negative, and so large as to stabilize the clusters of galaxies without “hidden mass”1. But if we explain the stability of clusters of galaxies in this way, the entire universe must implode during the time taken for one galaxy to cross a cluster once; this conclusion is independent of the Hubble constant, and the motions in the clusters would arise mainly from the Hubble expansion itself, since there is no time over which to define a steady state.
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Jackson, J. C., Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 148, 249 (1970).
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NOERDLINGER, P. Can the Cosmological Constant stabilize Galaxy Clusters ?. Nature 228, 845 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/228845a0
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