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Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1.: From Water World to Inflation; Humanity Faces the Universe; The First Cosmologists; A Truly Radical Discovery; Cosmic Fireworks on a Grand Scale!; But Lemaitre and Gamow Cannot Be Right!; But Is the Redshift Really About Velocity?; It's About Time (Maybe?); Alice in Redshift Land?; Steady States and Continuous Creation; Local Quasars?; Quasars and Hoyle's "Radical Departure" from Strict SST; Those Pesky Pigeons!; An Inflating Universe?; The Universe After the First 13 Years of Twenty-First Century
2.: Space, Time, Relativity ... And Other ThingsRichard Feynman's Wagon; Scientific Astrology?; A Very Lively Vacuum; That Cursed Elusive Particle!; Einstein's Universe; That Old Man Is My Son ... !; ... Or Is He?; The Weird World of Curved Space; Gravity and Time: Yet Another Time Dilation!; Gravitational Lenses, Black Holes and Cosmic Strings; Not-So-Black Holes?!; Cosmic Strings; Is the Universe a Hologram?; 3.: The Shape, Size, Age and Origin of the Universe; Has the Universe a Shape and a Size?; Donuts, Axes of Evil and Other Anomalies!; Infinite, Finite ... or Both!
Is Infinity a Myth? A Universe for All Time?; From Whence Came the Universe?; The Finely-Tuned Universe; Accident, Design or One-Choice-Amongst-Many?; 4.: Of Atoms, Quanta, Strings and Branes; Just How Weird Can the Universe Really Be?; Solar-System Atoms and Quantum Leaps: Rutherford & Bohr; The Atomic Matrix: Heisenberg & Born; What Does It All Mean?; Schrodinger's Cat; Wigner's Friend; How Did Bohr Interpret Quantum Reality?; An Intriguing Alternative Interpretation; What If the Wave-Function Is Real?; "Spooky Action-at-a-Distance"; The Universe with Strings Attached
The "Big Splat"5.: Observations and Ideas from the Left Field; Odd Redshifts; Strange Companions: NGC 4319 and Markarian 205; Discordant Tunes from the Quintet (and the Sextet); The Strange Case of VV 172; Quantized Redshifts; An Even Bigger Headache for Cosmologists!; Gravitational Weirdness; Gravity and the Quantum Vacuum; Go to Warp Speed Mr. Spock!; But Is the Quantum Vacuum a Real Vacuum After All!?; The Plasma Universe; The Cosmological Model of Thomas Van Flandern; The Complex Theory of Relativity: A Universe of Eons; Monster Particles of Little Mass?
Yet More Gravitational Weirdness? The "Magic Number"; Deep Mystery or Just a Coincidence?; Appendix: The Tripple Alpha Process; An Example of Remarkable Fine-Tuning; Author Index; Subject Index
2.: Space, Time, Relativity ... And Other ThingsRichard Feynman's Wagon; Scientific Astrology?; A Very Lively Vacuum; That Cursed Elusive Particle!; Einstein's Universe; That Old Man Is My Son ... !; ... Or Is He?; The Weird World of Curved Space; Gravity and Time: Yet Another Time Dilation!; Gravitational Lenses, Black Holes and Cosmic Strings; Not-So-Black Holes?!; Cosmic Strings; Is the Universe a Hologram?; 3.: The Shape, Size, Age and Origin of the Universe; Has the Universe a Shape and a Size?; Donuts, Axes of Evil and Other Anomalies!; Infinite, Finite ... or Both!
Is Infinity a Myth? A Universe for All Time?; From Whence Came the Universe?; The Finely-Tuned Universe; Accident, Design or One-Choice-Amongst-Many?; 4.: Of Atoms, Quanta, Strings and Branes; Just How Weird Can the Universe Really Be?; Solar-System Atoms and Quantum Leaps: Rutherford & Bohr; The Atomic Matrix: Heisenberg & Born; What Does It All Mean?; Schrodinger's Cat; Wigner's Friend; How Did Bohr Interpret Quantum Reality?; An Intriguing Alternative Interpretation; What If the Wave-Function Is Real?; "Spooky Action-at-a-Distance"; The Universe with Strings Attached
The "Big Splat"5.: Observations and Ideas from the Left Field; Odd Redshifts; Strange Companions: NGC 4319 and Markarian 205; Discordant Tunes from the Quintet (and the Sextet); The Strange Case of VV 172; Quantized Redshifts; An Even Bigger Headache for Cosmologists!; Gravitational Weirdness; Gravity and the Quantum Vacuum; Go to Warp Speed Mr. Spock!; But Is the Quantum Vacuum a Real Vacuum After All!?; The Plasma Universe; The Cosmological Model of Thomas Van Flandern; The Complex Theory of Relativity: A Universe of Eons; Monster Particles of Little Mass?
Yet More Gravitational Weirdness? The "Magic Number"; Deep Mystery or Just a Coincidence?; Appendix: The Tripple Alpha Process; An Example of Remarkable Fine-Tuning; Author Index; Subject Index