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By Maurice M. Shapiro, Todor Stanev, John P. Wefel

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This ebook constitutes the court cases of the thirteenth process the foreign college of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics. It specializes in significant parts of astrophysics, their relation to cosmic ray physics, and our present realizing of the vigorous tactics within the Galaxy and the Universe that govern the acceleration and shape the gains of the cosmic rays that we discover at Earth.

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29) Under analytic continuation t 4 it^,then cosh(3Ct) -+ cos(Xi) with period 27r/3C, and (27) follows directly. However, de Sitter space has no deceleration parameter q . (24) was derived here from the RW metric where q is not a constant. The flat FL models are strongly regulated by a = a ( t ) in metric (18) or (21). Since a = a ( t ) is asymptotically increasing, q = q ( t ) modulates the Newtonian potential by a small scale factor of $. 0 which will be shown analytically below. Including all q in the Newtonian harmonic oscillator argument that led to (26) does not change the existence of time-like Killing vectors for this spacetime except when q = 0 and there is no Newtonian potential in (24).

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