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

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WHAT ELSE CAN BE EXPLAINED OUT THERE BY PLASMA

As we improve our telescopes and see farther into the universe, the more evidence we find. Although only a few people work in plasma cosmology, they already have some better explanations for what we're looking at than the more accepted theories.

We'll cover some of the more important objects in our universe that this cosmology can describe in a completely new way.

Plasma can explain our galaxy, radio galaxies, quasars, galactic clusters, super clusters, and super filaments.

WHERE DO COSMIC RAYS COME FROM

We haven't mentioned cosmic rays before, so it's time for a brief description. Cosmic rays are streams of charged particles hitting our atmosphere at almost the speed of light. With such high energy, these streams smash into the upper atmosphere breaking some of it up into other kinds of particles. Since the rays hit us from all sides equally, they must be coming from outside our galaxy. If they came from inside the galaxy, they should be coming from directions along the plane of our fireworks pinwheel, perhaps from the center. So coming from all sides with such force, cosmic rays made good evidence for the Big Bang.

Perhaps, but the plasma idea raises other possibilities. One of the first things Alfven tackled was the cosmic ray effect. Go back to our simple table top idea with moving magnets creating electricity and picture two big magnets circling each other. If we build a closed chamber around these magnets, pump out the air, and fill the container with an ionized gas, we can create an electric field in there.

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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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