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Salvador Galindo-Uribarri

Publications and source records attributed to Salvador Galindo-Uribarri.

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arXiv2023

The Unsettled Number: Hubble's Tension

One of main sources of uncertainty in modern cosmology is the present rate of the universe's expansion, H0, called the Hubble constant. Once again, different observational techniques bring about different results, causing new 'Hubble tension'. In the present work, we review the historical roots of the Hubble constant from the beginning of the twentieth century, when modern cosmology originated, to the present. We develop the arguments that gave rise to the importance of measuring the expansion of the Universe and its discovery, and we describe the different pioneering works attempting to measure it. There has been a long dispute on this matter, even in the present epoch, which is marked by high-tech instrumentation and, therefore, in smaller uncertainties in the relevant parameters. It is, again, currently necessary to conduct a careful and critical revision of the different methods before one invokes new physics to solve the so-called Hubble tension.

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arXiv2023

On Einstein's last bid to keep a stationary cosmology

It is commonly known that the steady-state model of the universe was proposed and championed in a series of influential papers around mid-twenty century by Fred Hoyle, Hermann Bondi, and Thomas Gold. In contrast it is little known that, many years before, Albert Einstein briefly explored the same idea; that is of a 'dynamic steady state' universe. In 1931 during his first visit to Caltech, Einstein tried to develop a model where the universe expanded and where matter was supposed to be continuously created. This latter process was proposed by him to keep the matter density of the universe constant. However, Einstein shortly abandoned the idea. The whole event has already been described and analyzed by C. O'Raifeartaigh and colleagues in 2014. It is the purpose of this brief note to point out what might have prompted Einstein to consider a continuous creation of matter and the prevailing circumstances at that time that drove Einstein's intent.

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arXiv2020

The Legacy of Einstein's Eclipse, Gravitational Lensing

A hundred years ago, two British expeditions measured the deflection of starlight by the sun's gravitational field, confirming the prediction made by Einstein's General theory of Relativity. One hundred years later many physicists around the world are involved in studying the consequences and use as a research tool, of the deflection of light by gravitational fields, a discipline that today receives the generic name of Gravitational Lensing. The present review aims to commemorate the centenary of Einstein's Eclipse expeditions by presenting a historical perspective of the development and milestones on gravitational light bending, covering from early XIX century speculations, to its current use as an important research tool in astronomy and cosmology.

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arXiv2016

A Brief History of Gravitational Waves

This review describes the discovery of gravitational waves. We recount the journey of predicting and finding those waves, since its beginning in the early twentieth century, their prediction by Einstein in 1916, theoretical and experimental blunders, efforts towards their detection, and finally the subsequent successful discovery.

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