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The passage reads: "New data to be expected in the near future may modify the significance of the present investigation or, if confirmatory, will lead to a solution having many times the weight. For this reason it is thought premature to discuss in detail the obvious consequences of the present results. For example, if the solar motion with respect to the clusters represents the rotation of the galactic system, this motion could be subtracted from the results for the nebulae and the remainder would represent the motion of the galactic system with respect to the extra-galactic nebulae."

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The passage reads: "New data to be expected in the near future may modify the significance of the present investigation or, if confirmatory, will lead to a solution having many times the weight. For this reason it is thought premature to discuss in detail the obvious consequences of the present results. For example, if the solar motion with respect to the clusters represents the rotation of the galactic system, this motion could be subtracted from the results for the nebulae and the remainder would represent the motion of the galactic system with respect to the extra-galactic nebulae."
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Nov-2022 22:04:20 UTC Robert McNees
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Hubble was hesitant to speculate too much about the meaning of his result. The words "recession" and "expansion" don't actually appear anywhere in the paper!
But the implications were clear to Hubble. At one point, he says "For this reason it is thought premature to discuss in detail the obvious consequences of the present results."

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