A Different Approach to Cosmology
From a Static Universe through the Big Bang towards Reality

Highly controversial book in which three distinguished cosmologists argue that the model which most cosmology research uses is incorrect.

F. Hoyle (Author), G. Burbidge (Author), J. V. Narlikar (Author)

9780521019262, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 8 September 2005

372 pages, 73 b/w illus.
24.4 x 17 x 2 cm, 0.59 kg

'The book is a mix of history, polemic, and thought-provoking questioning. It outlines a critique of the currently accepted cosmology.' David Southwood, EOS

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Cosmology & the universe [PGK]