How Dark Matter Created Dark Energy and the Sun: An Astrophysics Detective Story [Paperback]

Jerome Drexler (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1581125518 | ISBN-13: 978-1581125511 | Publication Date: December 15, 2003

Through use of a lecture-slide format, this book presents an astrophysics detective story that chronicles Jerome Drexler's literature search for astronomical clues and evidence to unveil the nature of dark matter. There are a number of mysteries in astrophysics and cosmology that have remained unsolved for decades. What is dark matter? How exactly are stars created? In 1998, it was determined from supernova studies that the expansion of the Universe was accelerating, thereby creating the mystery of dark energy. Astrophysicists have developed mutually exclusive, single-phenomenon theories for each of these three phenomena, but not a unified theory for all three of them. The author's original goal was to identify dark matter, a decades-old mystery. In the process, he developed a new theory for dark matter and illuminated the nature of dark energy and the process of Sun formation. Since dark matter may have been instrumental in the creation of galaxies and stars, the author decided to test his new dark matter theory on the formation of the Sun. The results were very encouraging. He next sought a possible link between dark matter and the accelerating expansion of the Universe, which is attributed to the mysterious dark energy. Using his dark matter theory and the laws of physics, the author explained the accelerating expansion of the Universe in a plausible manner. This book chronicles the author's search for a unified astrophysical theory and how it finally evolved.

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About the Author

Jerome Drexler began his career as a Member of the Technical Staff of Bell Laboratories in R&D on microwave power sources utilizing high energy electron streams. He has been granted 76 U.S. patents involving megawatt microwave electronics, laser recording, and optical data storage. He also has founded two successful U.S. electronics companies, received Honorary Doctor of Science degrees from New Jersey Institute of Technology and Upsala College, and received an Honorary Fellowship from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. For his invention of the computer-based optical memory card, he received the Inventor of the Year Award in 1990 for California s Silicon Valley.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Universal Publishers (December 15, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1581125518
• ISBN-13: 978-1581125511
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,689,992 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Beware -- read skeptically, November 5, 2005

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JMK (Pasadena, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How Dark Matter Created Dark Energy and the Sun: An Astrophysics Detective Story (Paperback)

I am a professional astrophysicist, and regularly order books in my field from Amazon. I was dismayed to see this book automatically suggested to me as one I may be interested in, alongside astronomy books by actual scientists and reputable journalists. The format and promotional copy (not to mention the strikingly similar "customer" reviews) are enough to set off warning flags, and although I've only browsed the online excerpts, they contain a number of troubling errors. I must profess skepticism, to say the least, that further reading would leave me impressed by the author's novel theories of dark energy, star formation, or indeed his grasp of the basics of modern cosmology.

Feel free to buy this book and judge for yourself. But I would hate to see anyone purchase this, mistaking it for a fair introduction to the exciting and thriving field of modern cosmology. There are many excellent such popular introductions--I suggest Charles Seife's Alpha and Omega as one recent example, or books by Brian Greene, Alan Guth, or Martin Rees.

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars IF YOU WANT TO LEARN ABOUT ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK, May 31, 2006

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Dr Marc "DM" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How Dark Matter Created Dark Energy and the Sun: An Astrophysics Detective Story (Paperback)

I am a professional astronomer. I can tell you that there are serious problems with Jerome Drexler's theory and I agree strongly with the review given by JMK. For anyone interested in Cosmology, Dark Matter and Dark Energy, there are much better books out there, books that pain a picture of a more generally accepted theory.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Out of the Mainstream, July 9, 2008

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Ellen Jackson (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How Dark Matter Created Dark Energy and the Sun: An Astrophysics Detective Story (Paperback)

This book presents a theory of dark energy that does not reflect mainstream thinking. Read THE EXTRAVAGANT UNIVERSE by Robert P. Kirshner for a more comprehensive and valid interpretation of dark energy and its relationship to dark matter.

Ellen Jackson, author
THE MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE: SUPERNOVAE, DARK ENERGY, AND BLACK HOLES
(A book for young adults)