Cosmology and
Cosmythology
Book:
Not By Design: The Origin of the Universe
(1988)
Available from Amazon.com.
Reviews can be found there.
Here's one.
31 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
Fantastic! , October 19, 1998
Reviewer: A reader
This book makes a compelling case for the idea that the universe
didn't come about through the handywork of some magical space
pixie. The naysayers will throw about their arguments from
incredulity while kicking & screaming but, in the end, even
they (if anything like a rational mind still inhabits their
bodies) will be forced to admit that this concept deserves
serious consideration. Once, it was considered common sense that
the sun moved around the Earth. "Look up at the sky and see it
for yourself!", they would exclaim. But the thinking mind will
take the known facts and discard the hypothesises that don't have
compelling evidence to support them in favor of the ones that do.
Thus far, only a superstitious mind would put the intelligent
design idea into the latter category.
Resolving the Clock Paradox
On page 68 of Not By Design I discuss
the Clock
Paradox of special relativity. The following
graphic, not in the book, illustrates the principle.
The Planck Scale
Proof that
the
Planck Length and Planck Times are the smallests distance and times
that
can be operationally defined.
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