Discovering Postmodern Cosmology: Discoveries in Dark Matter, Cosmic Web, Big Bang, Inflation, Cosmic Rays, Dark Energy, Accelerating Cosmos [Paperback]

Jerome Drexler (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 159942987X | ISBN-13: 978-1599429878 | Publication Date: March 1, 2008

Learn how a world-class inventor-scientist is currently tackling the greatest scientific mysteries of the universe -- and succeeding. With his new book, Drexler provides a viable baseline to jump-start debate on a standard model for postmodern cosmology. It is the first book to not only address these seven unsolved cosmic mysteries, shown in this book's subtitle, but also offer plausible explanations for each of them. The correlation of these seven cosmic phenomena by Drexler offers a revolutionary advance in cosmological research and potentially broad acceptance and use of the related concepts. This book was written for open-minded cosmologists, astronomers, astrophysicists, physicists, engineers, students, enthusiasts and those at NASA, NSF, DOE and ESO who want to understand postmodern cosmology. The author's five years of cosmology research, and his successes, convinced him that his postmodern cosmology model is correctly based upon the relationships and linkages of these seven cosmic phenomena.

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About the Author

Jerome Drexler is the author of four astro-cosmology books, a former Research Professor in physics at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), former CEO and chief scientist of LaserCard Corp. (Nasdaq: LCRD) and former Member of the Technical Staff and group supervisor at Bell Laboratories. He has been awarded 76 U.S. patents, honorary Doctor of Science degrees from NJIT and Upsala College, a degree of Honorary Fellow of the Technion, an Honorary Life Member of the Technion Board of Governors, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship at Stanford University, a three-year Bell Labs graduate study fellowship in applied physics, the 1990 "Inventor of the Year Award" for Silicon Valley, and the first patent on an optical disk "Laser Optical Storage System."

Product Details

• Paperback: 292 pages
• Publisher: Universal Publishers (March 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159942987X
• ISBN-13: 978-1599429878
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,212,408 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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40 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Drexler's nonsense, April 24, 2008

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physicist (california) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Discovering Postmodern Cosmology: Discoveries in Dark Matter, Cosmic Web, Big Bang, Inflation, Cosmic Rays, Dark Energy, Accelerating Cosmos (Paperback)

As someone with a PhD in physics I can assure you that Drexler's ideas about dark matter and cosmology are wrong, inconsistent with experimental results and are not worth reading. His relativistic protons cannot be the dark matter. Dark matter does not emit or absorb measurable amounts of electromagnetic radiation while protons do; they would have been discovered long ago. Also the basic physics Drexler tries to use in his theories is incorrect. He obviously does not have the science or math background to calculate the consequences of his ideas and so seems to rely on wishful thinking. I happen to know that real scientists have explained to him both the physical inconsistencies of his theories and why, even if the physics was correct, many different experiments would rule them out. However, like many pseudo-science true-believers, Drexler refuses to listen and clings to his obviously wrong ideas. He also distorts actual scientific results to try to bolster his case. Drexler may be able to fool some lay people with no astrophysics background, but the few actual astrophysicists that have taken the time to look at his ideas all dismiss them as gibberish. Don't waste you time with this useless book.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Nonsense - a theory ruled out by observational evidence, April 6, 2011

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Gintaras Duda - See all my reviews

This review is from: Discovering Postmodern Cosmology: Discoveries in Dark Matter, Cosmic Web, Big Bang, Inflation, Cosmic Rays, Dark Energy, Accelerating Cosmos (Paperback)

As a researcher in the field of dark matter, I can tell you that relativistic protons as dark matter has been ruled out by multiple lines of evidence. As a previous reviewer notes, relativistic protons would emit radiation (hence not dark matter) and would interact with the cosmic microwave background radiation. Relativistic protons do not pass the stringent limits on the number of baryons in the universe set by BBN. While this idea might have been an interesting one many, many years ago, it is defunct and has been disproved. As such, this is not a scientific book about dark matter. The author clings to his main premise despite all of the evidence against it. In fact, every single new piece of evidence in cosmology is twisted to fit this defunct model. The most telling piece of evidence against this book is that is based on press releases. This theory has not (and cannot) pass peer review and hence has not been published or expounded upon in any credible physics journal.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Pure rubbish, September 7, 2009

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This review is from: Discovering Postmodern Cosmology: Discoveries in Dark Matter, Cosmic Web, Big Bang, Inflation, Cosmic Rays, Dark Energy, Accelerating Cosmos (Paperback)

Don't get this book. It's pure rubbish written by a layman with little science background.