Originally posted on sciy.org by Ron Anastasia on Tue 23 Oct 2007 02:43 PM PDT
British Professor Elegantly Questions Validity of Cold Dark Matter Hypothesis
LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif., Oct. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- The September-October 2007 issue, Volume 95, of the American Scientist magazine, published a remarkable article by Michael J. Disney, an emeritus professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University in the UK. The article fully lives up to its title, "Modern Cosmology: Science or Folk Tale?"
Professor Disney uses Big Bang cosmology as the basis for his thesis and shows that the accepted mainstream Big Bang cosmology relies on too few astronomical observations and too many hypotheses to be considered "science". In the article he sometimes uses the term "free parameters" as a synonym for the word "hypotheses."
Professor Disney's negative opinion of the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) hypothesis in Big Bang cosmology is described in the following two paragraphs quoted from his article.
The Significance of Cosmology
"The currently fashionable concordance model of cosmology (also known to the cognoscenti as 'Lambda-Cold Dark Matter,' or 'LambdaCDM') has 18 parameters, 17 of which are independent. Thirteen of these parameters are well fitted to the observational data; the other four remain floating. This situation is very far from healthy. Any theory with more free parameters [hypotheses] than relevant [astronomical] observations has little to recommend it. Cosmology has always had such a negative significance, in the sense that it has always had fewer [astronomical] observations than free parameters [hypotheses] (as is illustrated on page TK), though cosmologists are strangely reluctant to admit it. While it is true that we presently have no alternative to the Big Bang in sight, that is no reason to accept it. Thus it was that witchcraft took hold."
"The three successful predictions of the concordance model (the apparent flatness of space, the abundances of the light elements and the maximum ages of the oldest star clusters) are overwhelmed by at least half a dozen unpredicted surprises, including dark matter and dark energy. Worse still, there is no sign of a systematic improvement in the net significance of cosmological theories over time."
Silicon Valley's inventor/scientist, Jerome Drexler, raised the alarm about the validity of the Cold Dark Matter hypothesis in his December 15, 2003 published book, "How Dark Matter Created Dark Energy and the Sun", which also offered a warm/hot form of dark matter as an alternative.
Only the British seemed to be interested in his 2003 book until Drexler authored the 295-page,"Comprehending and Decoding the Cosmos", published May 22, 2006. During the past 15 months, more and more authors of cosmology related papers and articles have directly or indirectly questioned the validity of the Cold Dark Matter hypothesis. Has the 23-year-old Cold Dark Matter hypothesis evolved into the equivalent of a scientific mistake?
Recently, Science magazine published three papers or articles questioning the Cold Dark Matter hypothesis, namely on May 25,"Missing Mass in Collisional Debris from Galaxies", on August 3, "Seeing Through Dark Matter" and on September 14, "Lighting the Universe with Filaments".
Hopefully, Science magazine will be considered for a Pulitzer Prize in journalism for exposing the apparent mainstream Cold Dark Matter hypothesis that has evolved into a scientific mistake. Unfortunately this scientific mistake continues to retard progress in cosmology, demoralize cosmology researchers, and ill-prepares future cosmology researchers and yet, it continues to receive substantial financial support from U.S. government agencies and support from most U.S. universities.
Drexler's 2006 book "Comprehending and Decoding the Cosmos" discloses the surprising and significant roles and functions of dark matter in creating spiral galaxies, stars, starburst galaxies, ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, and other phenomena. Thus, a fitting subtitle for the book is "Discovering Solutions to Over a Dozen Cosmic Mysteries by Utilizing Dark Matter Relationism, Cosmology, and Astrophysics."
This book is now available in over 40 astronomy or physics libraries around the world including libraries at Harvard, Stanford, Yale, UC Berkeley, Cornell, Harvard-Smithsonian, Vassar, and the universities of Hawaii, Toronto, Illinois, Edinburgh, Hamburg, Goettingen, Groningen, Copenhagen, Chile, Bologna, Helsinki, Lisbon, Guadalajara, and Kyoto, and the Max-Planck-Institut for Astrophysik.
Jerome Drexler, the author of the book, entered the race to identify dark matter in 2002, by utilizing Albert Einstein's 1905 Special Theory of Relativity, Claude Shannon's information theory, Johannes Kepler's 400-year-old idea of re-analyzing the astronomical data of others, Occam's (Ockham's) razor logic of the 14th century and Drexler's own 50-year career in applied physics research, invention and innovation that began with seven years at Bell Laboratories.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jerome Drexler is a former NJIT Research Professor in physics at New Jersey Institute of Technology, founder and former Chairman and chief scientist of LaserCard Corp. (Nasdaq: LCRD) and former Member of the Technical Staff of Bell Laboratories. 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 inventor of the familiar "Laser Optical Storage System." He is a member of the NJIT Board of Overseers and an Honorary Life Member of the Technion Board of Governors.
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CONTACT: Jerome Drexler, 650-941-2716, drexlerastro@aol.com
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