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 TTOMTE and a Steady State Universe

Appendix C Musical Compositions

Bibliography

As each plasma filament became stable, gravity stepped in to give more shape to the universe. The universe was moving further and further from balance, but yet, more and more orderly. We can't guess what will happen next if what we see now becomes too boring. In the same way, it's impossible to guess what an existing species will evolve into next (including us).

The universe is bigger than we've been able to measure and at least 100 billion years old.

CAN THE BIG BANG THEORY BE SAVED

Up to now, we haven't had a good substitute for the Big Bang idea, so most scientists don't want to let it go. Kapp was totally ignored, and only now, plasma cosmologists are getting a voice. Sure, you can hang on to the Big Bang if you want to. All you have to do is answer the following questions:

1. How did the entire universe come into being from an infinitely small, pure dot? Doesn't this description sound suspiciously like a cosmology based on mathematics?
2. We've measured star clusters older than fifteen billion years. How can that be?
3. The universe doesn't have enough matter to get the formulas to work, so we've invented dark matter. This stuff's never been observed, and yet, it's supposed to supply almost ninety percent of the matter in the universe. Will you put your faith in dark matter?
4. The formulas still don't match observations well, so now we've added dark energy and can apply the necessary values anywhere we want.
5. We can see a pattern to the universe requiring possibly one hundred billion years to form. How was the pattern created in only fifteen billion years? One answer to this question went something as follows: In the beginning, was an explosion.

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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