SILICON VALLEY, Calif., May 11, 2010 (AScribe Newswire) — Earlier this month, three different research collaborations, seeking to discover the nature of dark matter in deep mines, aggressively questioned each other’s research results. Adding to the confusion, the vast majority of astrophysicists believe that cosmic-ray-based particles are a principal source of background noise in such deep-mine dark-matter-detection experiments while a growing small minority of astrophysicists and cosmologists believe that most of the higher energy cosmic-ray protons are in fact ejected dark matter particles bombarding Earth’s atmosphere.
Every dark matter candidate must be subjected to a series of qualifying astronomical-based and physics-based cosmological tests to be given serious consideration as the dark matter of the universe. Bell Labs-trained scientist Jerome Drexler’s new paperback book, “Our Universe via Drexler Dark Matter” focuses on 18 such principal cosmologic constituents/phenomena to define the nature of dark matter (and the universe).
Each of the 18 cosmologic constituents/phenomena also represents a window looking into the cosmologic universe. Thus, the 18 also can be used to define the universe. Further, each of the 18 is compatible with the other 17, making it possible to utilize any group of them without requiring any new assumptions.
Astrophysicists interested in becoming cosmologists or in understanding the nature and functions of dark matter and the universe should read Drexler’s new inexpensive paperback book, which covers 18 principal cosmic constituents/phenomena of the universe. Information about the book, including its first 25 pages and its list of 80 references, can be found on the Web site entitled, “Discovering Dark Matter Cosmology” at http://www.jeromedrexler.org/ . The 18 questions regarding cosmic constituents/phenomena of the universe are as follows:
- Provide any plausible explanation for the accelerating expansion of the universe without utilizing relativistic-proton dark matter.
(see Chapters 9, 15, 19, 21, F) - Provide any plausible explanation for dark energy without utilizing relativistic-proton dark matter.
(see Chapters 9, 15,19, 21, F) - What types of dark matter particles other than relativistic-proton dark matter could exist as spheroidal halos around spiral disk galaxies and also in the form of long large slightly curved filaments that form the Cosmic Web?
(see Chapters 1, 2, 3, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, B, C, D, E, J) - What could be the source of the energy of the cosmic-ray protons, that bombard Earth’s atmosphere, whose energy is so high they enter into non-elastic collisions with the Cosmic Microwave Background?
(see Chapters 10, 15, C, G, H) - Give any plausible explanation of how Cosmic Inflation could have started then quickly stopped during the big bang epoch, without utilizing a multiverse (multiple universes).
(see Chapters 21, H) - How did most large galaxies form without galaxy mergers?
(see Chapters 6, 11, 14) - What could cause the early rapid growth of massive galaxies?
(see Chapters 6, 11, 14) - What could cause the stunted mass growth of galaxy clusters?
(see Chapters 9, 13, 22) - How could the first stars be formed without the availability of hydrogen molecules or dust?
(see Chapter 20) - What could be the basis for the formation of the Lyman Alpha blobs?
(see Chapter 12) - What physics or astronomy other than utilizing relativistic-proton dark matter could have led to the limitation of the diameter of galaxy superclusters to about 430 million light years?
(see Chapter 10) - What new astronomical evidence suggests that the top-down theory, not galaxy mergers, is the principal basis for galaxy formation?
(see Chapters 6, 11, 14, 17, D) - Provide any plausible cause for ultraviolet, extreme ultraviolet, or soft X-ray photon emission from dark matter without utilizing relativistic-proton dark matter.
(see Chapters 8, 12, 13, 22, F) - NASA discovered a loud synchrotron-emission microwave noise. Could it be caused by some phenomenon other than decelerating dark-matter relativistic protons crossing magnetic-field lines?
(see Chapters 5, 7) - Does the Cosmic Web structure of dark matter filaments passing through every galaxy rely on relativistic-baryon or relativistic-proton dark matter?
(see Chapters 13, J) - Do hydrogen fusion in stars and the formation of Lyman-alpha blobs rely on muon creation by relativistic-proton dark matter?
(see Chapter 12, 13, 20) - How might a relativistic-proton big bang satisfy the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
(see Chapter C) - Could some dark-matter relativistic protons orbiting a group of galaxies and crossing magnetic-field lines, be evading the well-known GZK cosmic-ray cutoff ?
(see Chapter G)
Readers of Drexler’s new book will find that Drexler has clearly developed a unified theory of astrophysical cosmology that encompasses many more cosmic constituents/phenomena than any other cosmology paradigm in use today. Also, within his four astro-cosmology books, Drexler has solved about two dozen cosmic mysteries, making his new cosmology paradigm, to a great extent, devoid of unsolved cosmic mysteries.
Drexler has documented his eight years of dark matter/dark energy research, its timeline, its interaction with mainstream cosmology, and the overwhelming evidence that relativistic-proton dark matter and relativistic-baryon dark matter represent the principal constituents of the dark matter of the universe in the following seven publications.
(1) Paperback book, October 30, 2009, “Our Universe via Drexler Dark Matter: Drexler Dark Matter Created and Explains Dark Energy, Top-Down Cosmology, Inflation, Accelerating Cosmos, Stars, Galaxies, Cosmic Web.”
(2) Scientific Web site updated Nov. 14, 2009 entitled, “Discovering Dark Matter Cosmology” at: http://www.jeromedrexler.org/ .
(3) Paperback book, March 1, 2008, “Discovering Postmodern Cosmology: Discoveries in Dark Matter, Cosmic Web, Big Bang, Inflation, Cosmic Rays, Dark Energy, Accelerating Cosmos.”
(4) Scientific paper, physics/0702132, Feb. 15 2007, “A Relativistic-Proton Dark Matter Would Be Evidence the Big Bang Probably Satisfied the Second Law of Thermodynamics.”
(5) Paperback book, May 22, 2006, “Comprehending and Decoding the Cosmos: Discovering Solutions to Over a Dozen Cosmic Mysteries by Utilizing Dark Matter Relationism, Cosmology, and Astrophysics.”
(6) Scientific paper, astro-ph/0504512, April 22, 2005, “Identifying Dark Matter through the Constraints Imposed by Fourteen Astronomically Based ‘Cosmic Constituents.’”
(7) Paperback book, Dec. 15, 2003, “How Dark Matter Created Dark Energy and the Sun: An Astrophysics Detective Story.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jerome Drexler is a former member of the technical staff and group supervisor at Bell Labs, former research professor in physics at New Jersey Institute of Technology, founder and former Chairman and chief scientist of LaserCard Corp. (Nasdaq: LCRD). He has been awarded 76 U.S. patents, honorary Doctor of Science degrees from NJIT and Upsala College, a degree of Honorary Fellow of the Technion, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship at Stanford University, a three-year Bell Labs graduate study fellowship, the 1990 “Inventor of the Year Award” for Silicon Valley and recognition as the original inventor in 1978 of the now widely-used digital optical disk “Laser Optical Storage System” and the LaserCard(R) nanotech data memory. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of New Jersey Institute of Technology and an Honorary Life Member of the Technion Board of Governors.