Buy The Rock from Mars: A Detective Story on Two Planets and get The Big Bang Never Happened: A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe at an additional 5% off Amazon.com's everyday low price.

Buy Together Today: $30.54

Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science by Halton C. Arp  (24)  $25.00

Bye Bye Big Bang: Hello Reality by William C Mitchell  (10)  $19.95

Dismantling the Big Bang by Alex Williams  (5)  $11.54

Dark Matter, Missing Planets and New Comets (Paradoxes Resolved, Origins Illuminated) by Tom Van Flandern  (13)

The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin  (88)  $10.85

› Explore similar items : Books (47)

From Publishers Weekly
Plasma physicist Lerner opens one of science's inner rooms to a popular audience in this headline-making history of time, space and the humanistic sociology of science. Illustrated.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
From Steven Weinberg's The First Three Minutes (Basic, 1976. o.p.; 1988. pap.) to Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time ( LJ 4/15/88), numerous science popularizations have expounded the Big Bang Theory for the origin of the universe as indisputable fact. Readers of those books will find this one startling and intriguing. Lerner, a plasma physicist, points out flaws in the Big Bang model and proposes an alternative theory: an eternal, self-sustaining "plasma" universe where electromagnetic fields within conducting gases provide other, simpler explanations for observed phenomena. His contention that the Big Bang is merely a repackaged creation myth is presumptuous, but well argued. To present a current scientific controversy to a general audience risks, on one hand, misleading the public and, on the other, circumventing the peer review process. This book, however, makes valid points in a convincing manner and does neither. Recommended for general science collections.
- Gregg Sapp, Montana State Univ. Libs., Bozeman
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

See all Editorial Reviews

First Sentence:
"Cosmologists nearly all agree that cosmos came into being some ten or twenty billion years ago in an immense explosion, the Big Bang." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cosmological pendulum, conventional cosmologists, supercluster complexes, plasma cosmology, eternal mathematical laws, antimatter theory, supercluster filaments, fundamental physicists, antimatter cosmology, conventional cosmology, plasma universe, magnetic filaments, plasma filaments, filamentary currents, plasma focus, cosmic electrodynamics, cosmological debate, particle theorists, radio brightness, plasma physicists, vortex filaments, primeval atom, microwave background, galactic scale Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Theory of Everything, Nicholas of Cusa, New York, Teilhard de Chardin, Bronze Age, Middle Ages, Soviet Union, United States, Milky Way, Nobel Prize