A different approach to cosmology : from a static universe through the big bang towards reality
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A different approach to cosmology : from a static universe through the big bang towards reality
Cambridge University Press, 2005
- pbk.
- hbk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"First published 2000, Reprinted 2000(twice), 2001, this digitally printed first paparback version 2005"
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Description
This is a different kind of book about cosmology, a field of major interest to professional astronomers, physicists, and the general public. All research in cosmology adopts one model of the universe, the hot big bang model. But Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Burbidge and Jayant Narlikar take a different approach. Starting with the beginnings of modern cosmology, they then conduct a wide ranging and deep review of the observations made from 1945 to the present day. Here they challenge many conventional interpretations. The latter part of the book presents the authors' own account of the present status of observations and how they should be explained. The controversial theme is that the dependency on the hot big bang model has led to an unwarranted rejection of alternative cosmological models. Writing from the heart, with passion and punch, these three cosmologists make a powerful case for viewing the universe in a different light.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Early relativistic cosmology
- 3. The observational revolution
- 4. The observational trail 1931, the determination of H0 and the age dilemma
- 5. Changing times 1945-1965: New techniques and new people
- 6. The extension of the redshift apparent magnitude diagram to faint galaxies 1956-1995
- 7. The classical steady state cosmological model and its observational tests
- 8. The cosmic microwave background, an historical account
- 9. The origin of the light elements
- 10. A new primordial calculation of Y and D/H
- 11. The new observational evidence and its interpretation: (a) quasi-stellar objects and redshifts
- 12. The new observational evidence and its interpretation: (b) ejection phenomena and energetics
- 13. Modern Friedmann cosmology
- 14. Standard cosmology
- 15. New cosmological models
- 16. The observational evidence explained in terms of the quasi-steady state model
- 17. The intrinsic redshift problem
- 18. Creation centers and black holes
- 19. Modern observations of faint galaxies and related objects
- 20. Large scale distribution of matter
- 21. A brief account of the radiation fields in the universe: the observations and their interpretation
- 22. Summary
- 23. Some unsolved problems.
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