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Table of Contents

Preface

1. Scientific Theories and Laws

2. The First Decade (1936-1946)

3. Relativity

4. The Second Decade (1946-1956)

5. Quantum Mechanics

6. The Third Decade (1956-1966)

7. The Big Bang

8. The Fourth Decade (1966-1976)

9. The Non-Bang

10. The Fifth Decade (1976-1986)

11. The Never-Bang

12. The Sixth Decade (1986-1996)

13. Evolution

14. The Seventh Decade (1996-2006)

15. The Theory of More than Everything

16. The Eighth Decade (2006-2016)

17. Now What?

18. The Ninth Decade (2016-2026)

Appendix A Paintings

Appendix B Caps and Bunnies

Appendix C Musical Compositions

Appendix E A Googolplex Universe

Appendix F Acknowledgements

Bibliography

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Chapter Eleven

The Never-Bang


Not long ago, I spotted a book called The Big Bang Never Happened in a public library. I repeat: The Big Bang Never Happened in a public library. But maybe it never happened anywhere. The author of the book, Eric J. Lerner, a physicist and science writer enters the fray with plasma cosmology. What? Plasma cosmology? I'd never heard of this kind of cosmology before, and perhaps you haven't either. We'll even have to spend some time explaining just the word "plasma," but the book was refreshing to read since it showed some real passion, a rarity in scientific explorations. I was able to get a new copy at a bookstore to use as background for this chapter.

The man covers three major topics in his book:

  1. A description of plasma physics and how it explains the cosmos.
  2. How a model of the universe affects the existing culture and vice versa.
  3. Why civilization needs to go in a different direction.

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Sections

HOW DO WE GET AT PLASMA

CAN WE GO OUTSIDE YET

WHAT WAS THE FIRST CLUE

WHAT'S PLASMA GOOD FOR

WHAT ELSE CAN BE EXPLAINED

WHERE COSMIC RAYS COME FROM

WHY IS OUR GALAXY A PINWHEEL

WHAT'S A RADIO GALAXY

WHAT'S A QUASAR

HOW BIG/OLD IS THE UNIVERSE

CAN THE BIG BANG BE SAVED

WHAT'S BIG BANG'S HISTORY

WHAT NOW

FINAL THOUGHTS

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