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• 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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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.
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A NASA-funded team of scientists has announced that there is evidence of previous life on Mars. This book analyses the results from the meteorite ALH84001, critically interprets the information from the Vikings 1 and 2 space probes to Mars and looks at the evidence of organic material in the Cosmos. The overwhelmingly most likely explanation and by far the simplest interpretation of all the findings is that life is a cosmic phenomenon seeding the Earth and Mars.
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• pt. I. Classical electrodynamics. Lecture I. Historical background
• Lecture II. The problems of classical field theory
• Lecture III. The Wheeler-Feynman absorber theory of radiation
• Lecture IV. Action at a distance in curved spacetime
• Lecture V. Cosmological models
• Lecture VI. Response of the expanding universe
• pt. II. Quantum electrodynamics non-relativistic processes
• Lecture VII. The path-integral approach to quantum mechanics
• Lecture VIII. Perturbation theory and the influence functional
• Lecture IX. Absorption and stimulated emission
• Lecture X. Spontaneous emission
• Lecture XI. The complete influence functional and the level shift formula
• pt. III. Relativistic quantum electrodynamics
• Lecture XII. Path integrals for relativistic particles
• Lecture XIII. Many particle interactions and the quantum response of the universe
• Lecture XIV. Self action
• Lecture XV. Cosmological cut-offs to radiative corrections
• Lecture XVI. Concluding remarks.

This book describes the subject of electrodynamics at classical as well as quantum level, developed as an interaction at a distance. Thus it has electric charges interacting with one another directly and not through the medium of a field. In general such an interaction travels forward and backward in time symmetrically, thus apparently violating the principle of causality. It turns out, however, that in such a description the cosmological boundary conditions become very important. The theory therefore works only in a cosmology with the right boundary conditions; but when it does work it is free from the divergences that plague a quantum field theory.
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This volume describes the subject of electrodynamics at classical as well as quantum level, developed as an interaction at a distance. Thus it has electric charges interacting with one another directly and not through the medium of a field.
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Mathematician, physicist, astronomer and cosmologist, Sir Fred Hoyle is perhaps best known, in scientific circles, for his explanation of the origin of the elements from hydrogen nuclei in stars (a process known as nucleosynthesis) and for developing (with Sir Hermann Bondi and Thomas Gold) the controversial steady-state theory of the Universe (which assumes the continuous creation of matter). In 1950, in the last of a series of radio lectures on astronomy that he delivered on the air for the BBC, Hoyle coined the term "Big Bang" to characterize the competing expanding-Universe theory, which has since become the dominant paradigm. This term has now become a permanent addition to the language of cosmology. In this work, Hoyle offers an account of his life and work.
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The problem of the composition of cosmic dust grains has stubbornly defied solution for over half a century. A succession of models have been proposed and their properties worked out for comparison with an ever-expanding body of relevant observational data. The authors began their pioneering work in this field in the 1960s by challenging the then popular ice grain theory. Most controversially they later hypothesised that condensed organic matter in the galaxy is of biological origin, thus linking an old astronomical problem with the question of the origin of terrestrial life. In this book the authors develop the theory of Cosmic Grains on a broad front starting logically from basic mathematical and astronomical premises. The reader is guided through a historical progression of ideas on the nature of grains, leading ultimately to the authors' own point of view, which shows through a clear predictive sequence the important role of complex organic material in the interstellar grains.
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