Ebook: Gravitation and Cosmology: From the Hubble Radius to the Planck Scale: Proceedings of a Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Jean-Pierre Vigier

Jean-Pierre Vigier continually labeled one of les heretiques de la science, l’eternel resistant et le patriarche is yet a pillar of modern physics and mathematics, with one leg firmly planted in theory and the other in empiricism spanning a career of nearly 60 years with a publication vitae quickly approaching 400! He wrote of his mentor Louis de Broglie “Great physicists fight great battles”, which perhaps applies even more so to 1 Jean-Pierre Vigier himself . If fortune allows a visit to Paris, reported to be the city of love, and certainly one of the most beautiful and interesting cities in the world; one has been treated to a visual and cultural feast. For example a leisurely stroll from the Musee du Louvre along the Champs-Elysees to the Arc de Triomphe would instill even the least creative soul with the entelechies of a poets muse. It is perhaps open to theoretical interpretation, but if causal conditions have allowed one to be a physicist, visiting Paris, one may have taken opportunity to visit the portion of the old Latin quarter in place Jussieu where Pierre et Marie Curie Universite, reported to be ‘the best university in France’, is stationed.

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The volume has a unique perspective in that the chapters, the majority by world-class physicists and astrophysicists, contrast both mainstream conservative approaches and leading edge extended models of fundamental issues in physical theory and observation. For example in the first of the five parts:Astrophysics & Cosmology, papers review Bigbang Cosmology along with articles calling for exploration of alternatives to a Bigbang universe in lieu of recent theoretical and observational developments. This unique perspective continues through the remaining sections on extended EM theory, gravitation, quantum theory, and vacuum dynamics and space-time; making the book a primary source for graduate level and professional academics.

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The volume has a unique perspective in that the chapters, the majority by world-class physicists and astrophysicists, contrast both mainstream conservative approaches and leading edge extended models of fundamental issues in physical theory and observation. For example in the first of the five parts:Astrophysics & Cosmology, papers review Bigbang Cosmology along with articles calling for exploration of alternatives to a Bigbang universe in lieu of recent theoretical and observational developments. This unique perspective continues through the remaining sections on extended EM theory, gravitation, quantum theory, and vacuum dynamics and space-time; making the book a primary source for graduate level and professional academics.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
From the Cosmological Term to the Planck Constant....Pages 1-10
Creation of Matter and Anomalous Redshifts....Pages 11-26
The Origin of CMBR as Intrinsic Blackbody Cavity-QED Resonance Inherent in the Dynamics of the Continuous State Topology of the Dirac Vacuum....Pages 27-38
Some New Results in Theoretical Cosmology....Pages 39-50
Whitehead Meets Feynman and the Big Bang....Pages 51-58
Developing the Cosmology of A Continuous State Universe....Pages 59-64
The Problem of Observation in Cosmology and the Big Bang....Pages 65-80
Absorber Theory of Radiation in Expanding Universes....Pages 81-84
Bohm & Vigier: Ideas as A Basis for A Fractal Universe....Pages 85-94
A Random Walk in A Flat Universe....Pages 95-102
Multiple Scattering Theory in Wolf’s Mechanism and Implications in QSO Redshift....Pages 103-110
Connections Between Thermodynamics, Statostocal Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, and Special Astrophysical Processes....Pages 111-124
New Developments in Electromagnetic Field Theory....Pages 125-146
Comparison of Near and Far Field Double-Slit Interferometry for Dispersion of the Photon Wavepacket....Pages 147-156
Photon Diameter Measurements....Pages 157-166
What is the Evans-Vigier Field?....Pages 167-182
Non-Abelian Gauge Groups for Real and Complex Amended Maxwell’s Equations....Pages 183-188
Experimental Evidence of Near-Field Superluminally Propagating Electromagnetic Fields....Pages 189-196
The Photon Spin and other Topological Features of Classical Electromagnetism....Pages 197-206
The Process of Photon Emission from Atomic Hydrogen....Pages 207-222
Holographic Mind - Overview: The Integration of Seer, Seeing, and Seen....Pages 223-232
Photons from the Future....Pages 233-240
Can one Unify Gravity and Electromagnetic Fields?....Pages 241-258
The Dipolar Zero-Modes of Einstein Action....Pages 259-266
Theoretical and Experimental Progress on the Gem (Gravity-Electro-Magnetism) Theory of Field Unification....Pages 267-278
Can Gravity be Included in Grand Unification?....Pages 279-286
Gravitational Energy-Momentum in the Tetrad and Quadratic Spinor Representations of General Relativity....Pages 287-294
Spinors in Affine Theory of Gravity....Pages 295-302
A New Approach to Quantum Gravity....Pages 303-312
Multidimensional Gravity and Cosmology and Problems of G....Pages 313-320
Quantum Gravity Operators and Nascent Cosmologies....Pages 321-330
Ravitational Magnetism: An Update....Pages 331-336
Quantum Hall Enigmas....Pages 337-348
On The Possible Existence of Tight Bound States in Quantum Mechanics....Pages 349-356
A Chaotic-Stochastic Model of an Atom....Pages 357-366
Syncronization Versus Simultaneity Relations, with Implications for Interpretations of Quantum Measurements....Pages 367-376
Can Non-Local Interferometry Experiments Reveal A Local Model of Matter?....Pages 377-384
Beyond Heisenberg’S Uncertainty Limits....Pages 385-392
Towards A Classical Re-Interpretation of the Schrodinger Equation According to Stochastic Electrodynamics....Pages 393-400
The Philosophy of the Trajectory Representation of Quantum Mechanics....Pages 401-408
Some Physical and Philosophical Problems of Causality in the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics....Pages 409-412
Progress in Post-Quantum Physics and Unified Field Theory....Pages 413-418
Polarizable-Vacuum Approach to General Relativity....Pages 419-430
The Inertia Reaction Force and Its Vacuum Origin....Pages 431-446
Engineering the Vacuum....Pages 447-458
The Photon as a Charge-Neutral and Mass-Neutral Comosite Particle....Pages 459-468
Pregeometry Via Uniform Spaces....Pages 469-476
A Zpf-Mediated Cosmological Origin of Electron Inertia....Pages 477-482
Vacuum Radiation, Entropy and the Arrow Of Time....Pages 483-490
Quaternions, Torsion and the Physical Vacuum: Theories of M. Sachs and G. Shipov Compared....Pages 491-498
Homoloidal Webs, Space Cremona Transformations and the Dimensionality and Signature of Macro-Spacetime....Pages 499-506
Pulse Interaction in Nonlinear Vacuum Electrodynamics....Pages 507-510
Proposal for Teleportation by Help of Vacuum Holes....Pages 511-514
Cosmology, the Quantum Universe, and Electron Spin....Pages 515-516
On Some Implications of the Local Theory Th(?) and of Popper’Sexperiment....Pages 517-524
Back Matter....Pages 525-536
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