SILICON VALLEY, Calif., Aug. 17, 2010 (AScribe Newswire) — The Astro2010 Survey Committee report, “New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics,” was released by the National Academies in Washington, D.C., on Friday, August 13. The report recommended priorities for the most important scientific and technical activities for astronomy and astrophysics over the next 10 years.

One of the three principal recommendation sections is about the “physics of the universe,” which focuses on discovering the nature of dark matter and the physics of “dark energy,” which is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe. This dark matter/dark energy portion of the report appears to be at least seven years behind what is known or believed by some of Earth’s leading cosmologists. This newswire was written to bring this multi-billion-dollar state-of-knowledge problem, involving the recommended Astro2010 priorities, to the attention of NASA, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the world’s cosmologists, astronomers and astrophysicists.

Bell Labs-trained scientist Jerome Drexler’s 2003 paperbook book entitled “How Dark Matter Created Dark Energy and the Sun” describes his discovery of relativistic-baryon dark matter. On its seventh anniversary, without any edits or updates, the book also plausibly describes Drexler’s discovery of the “dark energy” that causes the accelerating expansion of the universe, the source of the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays that bombard Earth’s atmosphere every day, and how dark matter relativistic baryons (protons and helium nuclei) created the Sun (and stars).

Drexler’s 2003 Sun-formation theory leads to the amazing statement on page 115 of the 2003 book, “The Sun is more massive today than at the time of its birth.” On the same page there is another surprise, “The Sun was created by cosmic-ray protons and helium nuclei [maverick relativistic-baryon dark matter particles] showering on the [entire] solar system extending to the Oort Cloud region.”

For seven years mainstream physicist-cosmologists probably had serious doubts about Drexler’s Sun-formation (star-formation) theory. Fortunately for Drexler, a scientific paper was published July 2, 2010 in Physical Review Letters entitled “Asymmetric Dark matter and the Sun” by Oxford University researchers that provides support for the Sun-formation theory described in his 2003 book. See the July 14, 2010 newswire entitled, “Oxford University’s Dark-Matter-in-Sun Discovery Boosts Drexler’s Dark Matter, Postmodern Cosmology,” which can be found under News in the “Discovering Dark Matter Cosmology” Web site at (http://www.jeromedrexler.org/) .

That July 14 newswire contains the following significant paragraph. “Drexler’s relativistic-baryon (proton) dark matter meets all three of these Oxford-determined dark matter requirements since (1) the lower-energy majority of Drexler’s relativistic-proton dark matter appears to have an average relativistic mass in the range of 5-10 GeV (see pages 225-227 in Drexler’s October 2009 paperback book ‘Our Universe via Drexler Dark Matter,’) (2) baryons do not annihilate one another, and (3) the electrically charged protons and helium nuclei naturally have a high degree of self-interactions that should exponentially enhance capture by the Sun. Also, the Sun’s magnetic field of 50 gauss should facilitate the capture of moving electrically charged protons and helium nuclei.”

Since the Sun is a star, the Drexler-posited and Oxford-supported Sun-formation model is also a credible star-formation model. For other aspects of star formation, see Chapter 20 of the October 2009 book “Our Universe via Drexler Dark Matter,” which is entitled “Drexler’s Dark Matter May Have Enabled First-Generation Stars to Ignite Hydrogen Fusion Without Molecular Hydrogen or Dust.”

Drexler’s subsequent three astro-cosmology books, published in 2006, 2008 and 2009, were written (1) to provide solutions to 30 known cosmologic mysteries by utilizing relativistic-baryon dark matter, including the nature of the “dark energy” that causes the accelerating expansion of the universe, (2) to report on supportive scientific papers and (3) to formulate a new cosmology paradigm called Dark Matter Cosmology, also known as Postmodern Cosmology. (Note that the phrase “solves 30 mysteries” in the headline of this news story refers to 14 solved cosmic mysteries in the May 2006 cosmology book, plus 18 cosmic mysteries solved in the October 2009 book, plus four more solved subsequently for a total of at least 30 different cosmic mysteries.)

To date, about 15 scientific papers have been authored by universities and research labs that could be considered supportive of Drexler’s dark matter theory, dark matter models, or his dark matter cosmology. Furthermore, over the past seven years, no one has published a scientific paper attacking Drexler’s theories or models. It is important to note that since Drexler’s dark matter model automatically, via physics principles, leads to Drexler’s “dark energy” model, the same 15 scientific papers also support his “dark energy” model.

The significance of Drexler solving both the dark matter and “dark energy” enigmas as early as 2003 is highlighted by the following quoted paragraph from a July 19, 2010, news release issued by the University of Chicago, about the future use of the planned $700 million Giant Magellan Telescope to search for dark matter and “dark energy.”

“These telescopes are necessary tools for prying loose answers to the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter, two of the biggest questions confronting modern cosmologists, Kolb [Edward "Rocky" Kolb, chairman of UChicago’s Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics] said. Dark energy is a repulsive force of unknown origin that is accelerating the expansion of the universe. Dark matter is a material of unknown composition that is far more plentiful in the universe than the ordinary matter of everyday life. Theories and observations have convinced most cosmologists that dark energy and dark matter exist in huge amounts, but their precise nature has remained elusive.”

Thus, Drexler’s four-book dark matter cosmology, also known as postmodern cosmology, may have become the best mystery-solving, plausible, viable, and complete cosmology available on Earth today. It utilizes relativistic-baryon dark matter to solve 30 cosmologic mysteries. In doing so it confirms that relativistic-baryon dark matter must be the dark matter of the universe, solving a cosmologic enigma of 75 years.

A member of the physics faulty of the famous Weizmann Institute in Israel also believes in striving to find the solution to a given cosmologic mystery by testing potential solutions on other cosmologic mysteries. When asked last month “if he thought Dark Matter exists,” he replied, “I think it does. Many [sources of] independent evidence shows this. It’s a simple solution to many problems we have in Astrophysics, Cosmology, and High Energy Physics. When there is one answer, that explains a lot of phenomena then it’s often the correct solution.”

Drexler has documented his eight years of dark matter/ “dark energy” research, the researchers’ timeline, the interaction with mainstream cosmology, and the overwhelming evidence that relativistic-baryon dark matter and relativistic-proton 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 August 4, 2010, 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 OF THE FOUR BOOKS: 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® 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.