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Our Universe via Drexler Dark Matter: Drexler Dark Matter Created and Explains Dark Energy, Top-Down Cosmology, Inflation, Accelerating Cosmos, Stars, Galaxies, Cosmic Web

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I have a physics Ph.D., and the ideas in this book are incompatible with the universe as we know it. Drexler ignores the consequences of his theories which conflict with astrophysical observation. His ideas have been discredited many times, but unfortunately that doesn't prevent him from publishing new books rehashing the some old material.

This fourth book by Jerome Drexler continues his theme of solving the mysteries of the cosmos through his unified astrological cosmology model. This latest title "Our Universe via Drexler Dark Matter" examines the tremendous amount of support his theory and models received from mid 2008 to mid 2009, highlights of which include:

Drexler's 2005 Top-Down theory of galaxy formation is now confirmed by four different research groups headed by scientists at Cardiff University, Hebrew University, University of Hawaii, and Liverpool John Moores University.

Drexler's dark matter model provides the only currently viable explanation for Harvard's discovery of the stunted mass-growth of Galaxy clusters.

Drexler's dark matter model accurately predicts the maximum size of 430 million light years for galaxy superclusters.

Drexler's dark matter model provides the most plausible explanation for how the first-generation stars ignited hydrogen fusion without the presence of molecular hydrogen or dust.

Drexler's 2006 prediction of soft X-ray emission from his dark matter model is now the goal of a joint Russian-German research group

While Drexler's theory is controversial, emerging data continues to support his model and he certainly appears to have solved many cosmological mysteries for which plausible explanations have eluded mainstream astrophysicists. Drexler's orderly logical and systematic universe deserves serious examination by the astrophysical establishment.

Regarding other reviews written on this book, and the author in particular, Dr. Drexler, is a highly regarded scientist-inventor in Silicon Valley, holding 76 US patents. After writing his first cosmology book he was named to a full Research Professorship at New Jersey Institute of Technology. From being named one of two Fusion Scientists of the Year in 1995, to inventing the digital optical disk data storage system, to being considered the discoverer of relativistic-proton dark matter, Drexler is clearly an innovative and respected thinker. Whether or not one agrees with Drexler's theories, it's just pure hubris to believe that the universe as we know it today is the final answer.

"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science." - Albert Einstein

Other than nearly constant press releases at AScribe and the somewhat suspect reviews here at Amazon, not a single respected scientific journal has mentioned Drexler's papers in all the years he has been pushing his ideas. This would not be bothersome except that Drexler's grandious claims of the importance insults the peer view process and misleads readers. Rather than self publish his paperbacks, Drexler should focus on having his papers reviewed by knowedgable scientists. If his ideas have merit, he will receive credit. If his theories fall apart under review, then he can drop them or develop a new theory that is correct. Amazon can continue to sell his books, but readers should realize they may not have scientific credibility.

The preface of the book quotes Amazon reviews (without names) in it's favor. As far as I can see, there is no real scholarship and nothing but self-promotion. Let the buyer beware. There are tons of great cosmology books out there. This isn't one of them by any means.

The Universe is more orderly and simpler than we ever realized and this book does a good job clearly explaining that. This book address's the crisis in cosmology and surely will upset the established authorities. The author has sewn together evidence and connected the dots on 25 mysteries in Dark Matter and Cosmology based on the evidence. I liked it.

This captivating and challenging book on cosmology, the fourth book by Drexler on the subject, is unique, intriguing, and revolutionary. Again, the author has managed to synthesize his data on hot dark matter, initially presented in a series of scholarly online papers and books, into a coherent theory, a significant portion of which delineates cosmic constituents. Since Drexler initially presented his theories in 2003, and further explicated them in his subsequent books and scholarly papers, I have increasingly observed that some other renouned astrophysicists and cosmologists have indeed subscribed to his hot dark matter theory as the principal source of energy, not to mention the principal source of cosmic relationships in our ever-expanding universe. Drexler's top-down theory of galaxy formation is being increasingly supported by other great cosmologists and scientists who dare to think outside the box.

The expanding universe. High-energy cosmic ray protons constantly bombarding our atmosphere. The Cosmic Web. These are just three of at least 18 cosmic phenomena that have been observed. Yet conventional cosmology has not satisfactorily explained any of these and struggles to reconcile its theories on dark matter with the actual observations and each other.

Starting with the revolutionary theory that dark matter is made up of relativistic protons, Jerome Drexler has come up with logical explanations for over two dozen puzzles that have stumped conventional cosmology. Effectively building on his first three books, "Our Universe via Drexler Dark Matter" paints a coherent, comprehensive picture of the universe. Drexler convincingly details how his dark matter is entirely consistent with the observed phenomena. He also talks about new and upcoming research that could help prove his theories: increased capabilities of the Hubble telescope and the launch of a Russian ultraviolet astronomical observatory. This book is both fascinating and thought provoking.

Jerome Drexler's book "Our Universe via Drexler Dark Matter" should have been titled "The Trouble with Astrophysics", with a tip of the hat to Lee Smolin. For in his book, Drexler jousts with mainstream astrophysics that, among other things, posits WIMPS as cold dark matter, in a manner analogous to the way in which Smolin jousts with string theory. Interestingly, Smolin lists dark matter and dark energy among the five great unsolved problems of theoretical physics. Drexler uses recent scientific reports as his experimental evidence supporting his theory of a relativistic cosmology with relativistic particles dominating the dark matter and dark energy substance of the universe. Each chapter has a date, starting with Chapter 1 dated September 18, 2008 and ending with Chapter 22 dated August 25, 2009, reflecting publication of the individual chapters as commentary readable by a lay person on experimental evidence and its interpretation supporting Drexler's arguments. The book is followed by a number of short "Prerequisite" articles that are previously published interpretations and commentary supporting the 22 chapters. References, a bibliography, a glossary and an index complete the work. Drexler has a collection of experimental evidence that he finds to intuitively satisfy Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. In approximately 1927 Fr. Georges Lemaitre published a relativistic solution to Einstein's field equations which Einstein acknowledged. This was followed by other mathematical papers on relativistic cosmology by Lemaitre, mostly obscure, but attempting a real world solution to the Einstein equations. At that time Lemaitre used meager empirical data to support his mathematics. Both Drexler and Lemaitre have corresponding pieces to the dark matter puzzle. It would be interesting for someone to put these pieces together. Drexler has written an interesting book challenging interpretations in modern cosmology.

Dr. Drexler's latest book reads like a mystery thriller, each chapter leading closer to the "smoking gun" - proof that relativistic baryonic dark matter exists and can provide solutions to many of cosmology's most significant problems. These include the composition of dark matter and the cosmic web, the formation of galaxies and galaxy clusters, the ignition of first generation stars, and the source of ultra high energy cosmic rays bombarding the earth. This book prepares the reader to interpret upcoming data from the Hubble UV detector and from the planned Russian UV and X-ray satellite observatories, which will probably have mainstream astrophysicists scrambling for explanations. As science philosopher Thomas Kuhn has pointed out, it usually takes a scientist "new to a field" to acknowledge anomalies and create a paradigm shift; Dr. Drexler is clearly such a scientist, and his critics have yet to produce a single piece of evidence to refute any part of his theories.