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THE recent development of the technique of resonant scattering of γ-rays, using the Mössbauer effect, appears to raise the possibility of a terrestrial test of one theory of the red shift observed by Hubble in the light coming from distant galaxies.
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WARD, A. The Galactic Red Shift. Nature 192, 858 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/192858a0
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