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Recent uniform samples of QSO Lyα absorption lines make possible new cosmological tests out to large redshifts and the detection of superclustering out to redshift z∼3. One test involves the Lemaître models of the Universe, which predict large peaks in the number of objects per unit redshift, near the redshift of their characteristic quasistatic period. No such peaks are seen in the Lyα cloud distribution.
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Tytler, D. Demise of the Lemaître cosmological models and objects at large redshift. Nature 291, 289–292 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/291289a0
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