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T�tulo

The Multi-Universe Cosmos: The First Complete Story of the Origin of the Universe

Editor

Plenum Publishers

Fecha de publicaci�n

1992

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0306442671

ISBN 13

9780306442674

Encuadernaci�n

Hardcover

Estado

Near Fine

Estado de la sobrecubierta

Near Fine

Tipo de libro

Book

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Physics

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Sinopsis

The generally accepted big bang theory of the origin of the universe suffers from certain crucial theoretical shortcomings. It fails to answer such important questions as: How could the matter and radiation currently in the universe be compressed into a singularity of infinite density and zero space? What was the source of this matter and radiation? What caused the singularity to explode? Furthermore, the traditional theory is ill-equipped to explain the tremendously powerful bursts of gamma radiation, recently detected by NASA's orbiting Gamma Ray Observatory, that appear uniformly over the sky.
In this groundbreaking text, A. Karel Velan presents his pioneering new theory on the birth of the universe within a multi-universe cosmos. Velan probes further into the past than anyone has previously ventured, as he explains the origins of matter and energy and the evolution of our universe. Velan's model goes beyond the theoretical constraints of the big bang-singularity model to account for problematic phenomena, such as the intense gamma radiation observed by the NASA orbiter. It also resolves the issue of the faint fluctuations in microwave background radiation temperature recently detected by NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer, a widely publicized discovery that has been interpreted as supporting the big bang theory.
Velan applies proven laws of physics and observational data to support his cosmological model, which proposes a large, possibly infinite, number of universes in varying stages of evolution. Peering back 18 billion years to the genesis of our universe, the author gives a comprehensive, step-by-step description of the creation of matter and radiation. Describing the role of original concepts universe, Velan begins with an explanation of how virtual particles interacted with a concentrated electromagnetic energy field and were transformed into the elementary particles - electrons, positrons, quarks, photons, and neutrinos - that were the seeds of matter and energy. He details how this cloud of particles was collapsed by gravity until its trapped thermal radiation caused a titanic explosion that initiated the growth and evolution of our Universe.
Velan guides the reader through the development of our rapidly expanding and cooling universe, detailing how the accompanying temperature decrease confined free particles of protons and neutrons, neutrinos, and later photons, uncoupled from matter, free protons and neutrons bound into helium and deuterium nuclei and stable atoms formed and the entire universe was transformed into a ball of hydrogen and helium gas. He proceeds to explore the formation of protogalaxies and galaxies; the birth and evolution of stars; the ultimate fate of our Sun and planetary system; and the final stages of stars as white dwarfs, self-destructing supernovas, neutron stars, pulsars, and black holes.
Velan grounds his research in established physical principles, and devotes the early chapters of this book to providing a thorough review of the fundamental concepts of cosmology. His precise, vivid exposition covers properties of electrons, neutrinos, quarks, protons, neutrons, and other particles; key principles of quantum mechanics ; Einstein's theory of relativity; the strong, weak, electromagnetic, and gravitational forces; and the unification of the four forces.
This guidebook to the ultimate quest for the origins of time and space will appeal to anyone with a basic understanding of science who is interested in physics and astronomy. The author uses clear and simple mathematical explanations to substantiate his scientific arguments, and provides many handsome color prints and figures to illustrate important concepts in the text.

Rese�a del editor

In light of the barrage of popular books on physics and cosmology, one may question the need for another. Here, two books especially come to mind: Steven Weinberg's The First Three Minutes, written 12 years ago, and the recent best-seller ABriefHistory of Time by Stephen Hawking. The two books are complementary. Weinberg-Nobel prize winner/physicist-wrote from the standpoint of an elementary particle physicist with emphasis on the contents of the universe, whereas Hawking wrote more as a general relativist with emphasis on gravity and the geometry of the universe. Neither one, however, presented the complete story. Weinberg did not 13 venture back beyond the time when temperature was higher than 10 K and 32 perhaps as high as 10 K. He gave no explanation for the origin of particles and the singularity or source of the overwhelming radiation energy in our uni verse of one billion photons for each proton. Hawking presents a uni verse that has no boundaries, was not created, and will not be destroyed. The object of this book is to describe my new theory on the creation of our uni verse in a multi-universe cosmos. The new cosmological model eliminates the troublesome singularity-big bang theory and explains for the first time the origin of matter and the overwhelming electromagnetic radiation contained in the universe. My new theory also predicted the existence ofhigh-energy gamma rays, which were recendy detected in powerful bursts.

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