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    Dark Matters

    Dark Matters

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    by Percy Seymour

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      ISBN-13: 9781601639875
    • Publisher: Career Press, Incorporated
    • Publication date: 07/15/2008
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • File size: 2 MB

    Dr. Percy Seymour, author of eight acclaimed books on astronomy and cosmology, received his bachelor's degree in 1964, master's in 1965, and Doctor of Philosophy in 1967, all from Manchester University. His special area of study was magnetic fields in the Milky Way galaxy. From 1972 to 1977, he was senior planetarium lecturer at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, home of Prime Meridian of the World. From 1977 to 2003, he was principal lecturer in astronomy at the University of Plymouth.

    Table of Contents


    Introduction: The Dark Side of the Cosmos     13
    Comments on Dark Matter and Dark Energy
    The Building Blocks of the Universe
    The Cement and Mortar of the Universe
    The Genesis of a New Theory of Matter
    Magnetic Threads of the Cosmic Tapestry
    Michael Faraday and His Lines of Reasoning     29
    Faraday's Life in Brief
    Faraday: The Natural Philosopher
    Using Faraday's Lines of Force to Explain Laboratory Physics
    Electromagnetic Radiation
    Light Waves From Atoms
    The Doppler Effect
    Measuring Celestial Magnetic Fields
    Magnetic Mapping of the Universe-Planets and Stars     51
    Kepler's Speculations on Magnetism in the Solar System
    The First 20th-Century Evidence for Extraterrestrial Magnetic Fields
    Mapping the Magnetic Fields of the Planets With Satellites and Space Probes
    The Magnetism of the Stars
    Aspects of Stellar Evolution
    Detecting Magnetic Fields of Stars
    Magnetic White Dwarf Stars
    Magnetic Fields in Sun-Like Stars
    Pulsars
    Magnetic Fields in Double-Star Systems
    Magnetic Fields in X-Ray Sources
    The Origins of Planetary and Stellar Magnetic Fields
    Magnetic Mapping of the Universe-Galaxies     77
    Our Milky Way Galaxy
    Other Galaxies
    The Sun and Its Magnetism     105
    The Basic Observational Details
    Understanding the Solar Cycle
    The Electrified Tunnels of the Cosmic Tapestry
    Introduction to Part II: Formulating a New Theory of Matter, Space, and Time     133
    Astronomy Before 1900
    The Rise of Modern Physics
    Magnetic Fields inAstronomy
    Further Developments in Modern Physics
    Bell's Theorem
    The Plasma Space Theory of Matter
    An Urban Analogy
    Evidence for the Unseen     141
    Aristotle's Universe
    From Kepler to Newton
    The Discoveries of Uranus and Neptune
    Anomalies in the Orbit of Mercury
    Einstein's General Theory of Relativity
    Evidence for Dark Matter
    The Candidates for Dark Matter
    Evidence for Accelerating Expansion and Dark Energy
    Negative Pressure
    Possible Candidates for Dark Energy
    Relativity and Quantum Theory     161
    The Need for a Theory of Relativity
    The Special Theory of Relativity
    Mass, Energy, and the Speed of Light
    Relativity and the Michelson-Morley Experiment
    World Lines in Space and Time
    The General Theory of Relativity
    World Lines in General Relativity
    The Origins of Quantum Theory
    Einstein and Quantum Theory
    Quantum Theory and the BohrAtom
    De Broglie Waves and the Bohr Atom
    Schrodinger and the Structure of the Atom
    Further Developments in Quantum Mechanics
    Hidden Variables in Quantum Theory
    Theories on the Nature of Matter     177
    The Quark Theory of Matter
    String Theory
    The Plasma Space Theory of Matter
    Plasma Space Theory and the Evolution of the Universe
    The Laws of Normal Space and Plasma Space
    The Polynesian Navigators of the Quantum World
    Plasma Space and the Elementary Particles
    Nuclei of the Heavier Chemical Elements
    Bell's Theorem and Quantum Mechanics
    Two-Particle Interactions
    The Wave-Like Nature of Electrons
    Dark Matter and Dark Energy
    The Five Great Problems
    Modeling Reality      197
    Different Types of Models
    On the Philosophy of Modeling
    The Milky Way Galaxy Model of Reality
    The Urban Model of Reality
    Bibliography     207
    Index     211
    About the Author     221

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    One of the most important unsolved problems of current physics, astronomy, and cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy. These two invisible components of the universe seem to control the behavior of galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and the accelerating expansion of the universe, but we do not know what they are. Dark Matters offers a unified explanation for dark matter and dark energy, and, in doing so, formulates a new theory of ordinary matter.

    Central to this new theory is the concept of electric lines of force, encased in something called insulating space, which means we are generally not aware of them, just as we are not aware of the currents passing through insulated cables.

    The essential feature of Dark Matters that sets it apart from similar titles is that it sees the whole universe as a tapestry. The background "material" of this tapestry is the space-time framework of Einstein's theories of relativity. The threads of the tapestry are magnetic and electric lines of force. The magnetic lines of force originate from planets and stars; many exist as independent threads that weave their way in the vast spaces that separate the stars of galaxies.

    Sure to be discussed and debated in international scientific professional societies, Dark Matters is a fascinating, essential, and accessible book for anyone interested in exploring the frontiers of physics and cosmology.

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