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Sir Isaac Newton famously said, regarding his discoveries, "If I
have seen further it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
The Evolving Universe and the Origin of Life describes, complete
with fascinating biographical details of the thinkers involved, the
ascent to the metaphorical shoulders accomplished by the greatest
minds in history. For the first time, a single book can take the
reader on a journey through the history of the universe as
interpreted by the expanding body of knowledge of humankind. From
subatomic particles to the protein chains that form life, and
expanding in scale to the entire universe, this book covers the
science that explains how we came to be. The Evolving Universe and
the Origin of Life contains a great breadth of knowledge, from
astronomy to physics, from chemistry to biology. It includes over
350 figures that enhance the comprehension of concepts both basic
and advanced, and is a non-technical, easy-to-read text at an
introductory college level that is ideal for anyone interested in
science as well as its history.
This book derives and analyzes all solutions to the Kepler problem
with dark energy (DE), presenting significant results such as: (a)
all radial infinite motions obey Hubble's law at large times; (b)
all orbital infinite motions are asymptotically radial and obey
Hubble's law; (c) infinite orbital motions strongly dominate the
finite ones. This clearly shows the effect of repulsive DE: In the
classical Kepler problem, all orbital motions are finite for
negative energies and infinite in the opposite case. Another DE
effect is spatial localization of bounded orbits: mostly, they are
within the equilibrium sphere, where the attractive Newtonian force
outbalances the repulsive force of DE. This problem is of
particular current interest due to recent studies of the local
flows of galaxies showing domination of DE in their dynamics; the
book discusses this observation in detail.
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