Lack of time dilation in type Ia supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts

2018 
A fundamental property of any expanding universe is that any time dependent characteristics of distant objects must appear to scale by the factor $(1+z$). This is called time dilation. Light curves of type Ia supernovae and the duration of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) are the only observations that can directly measure time dilation over a wide range of redshifts. An analysis of raw observations of type Ia supernovae light curves shows that their widths are proportional to $(1+z)^{(0.088\pm0.036)}$. Analysis of the duration of GRB show that they are proportional to $(1+z)^{(0.25\pm0.16)}$. Both are consistent with no time dilation and inconsistent with a factor of $(1+z$) which implies that the universe is static. In addition it is shown that the standard method for calibrating the type Ia supernovae light curves (SALT2) is flawed, which explains why this lack of time dilation has not been previously observed.
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