by jjohnson » Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:52 am
I'm with you, Allen.
Further points for investigation:
Do the spectral signatures of local globular clusters match that used to define quasars (i.e., 'anomalously ' highly red-shifted?
Is there a receding (red) doppler shift that would indicate cluster translation out and away from our galaxy?
Do the local globular clusters, if they are moving, move in the plane of the Milky Way, normal to the center of the galaxy, or in an oblique direction, and can it be inferred if their vectors track back through the center of our galaxy?
If there ARE quasar-like redshifts, do they fall into the typical quantized values seen elsewhere with groups of quasars?
Are there "disturbed" or actively turbulent areas of stars or clouds interior to these clusters, which might indicate that they passed through arms or starry regions in the past? This last may be difficult to spot from our close-in position to this action, and the possibility that obstructing stars and dust could hide such activity, seen on some plates of other galaxies where quasars are being ejected through or along arms of galaxies (Arp, Quasars, Redshifts and Controversies).
It is fascinating to try to see if our own galaxy's globular star clusters might be related to other quasars seen at great distances from us. If these globulars, particularly their individual stars which are readily resolved, indicate higher than expected redshifts, it would disrupt conventional thinking about galactic evolution and operation and could elicit a comment or a paper from Dr. Arp himself.
Not that any journal in the U.S. would publish it without a fight.
Jim