A review of some recent well-documented cases of intolerance in the cosmology field illustrates a common problem in science. Many relate to the Big Bang theory, such as the case of Geoffrey and Margaret Burbidge and Halton Arp. None of the accounts involved Intelligent Design advocates or creationists. This selection removes this compounding factor from the evaluation, but the cases have direct...

In the previous article (Grujić 2001, to be referred to as I) we examined Anaxagoras’ worldview and compared his hierarchical cosmos with that of Democritus. We analyzed a number of possible interpretations of his cosmology and argued that his ideas could be put in terms of the modern concept of fractal structuring of the material objects. The idea of hierarchical structuring of the material wo...

Astrophysics, Cosmology & Gravitation and Department of Mathematics & Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7701, South Africa; 4 Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1040, USA; 5 Université de Genève, Département de Physique Théorique and CAP, CH-1211 Genève 4, Switzerland; 6 African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cape Town 7945, South Afri...

Every society has a story rooted in its most ancient traditions, of how the earth and sky originated. Most of these stories attribute the origin of all things to a Creator whether God, Element or Idea. We first recall that in the Western world all discussions of the origin of the world were dominated until the 18th century by the story of Genesis, which describes the Creation as an ordered proc...

n November 1915, Albert Einstein finished his decade-long struggle to develop the General Theory of Relativity (GR), in which he envisioned gravitation geometrically as the “curvature of spacetime.” Immediate observational confirmation for the theory was significant but slim. In 1915 this consisted of the successful accounting of the anomalous precession of Mercury’s orbit. Tests of other early...

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The effect of a time dependent cosmological constant is considered in a family of scalartensor theories. FriedmannRobertsonWalker cosmological models for vacuum and perfect fluid matter are found. They have a linear expansion factor, the so called coasting cosmology, the gravitational ”constant” decreases inversely with time; that is these models satisfy the Dirac Hypotheses. The cosmological ”...

The Copernican principle, a cornerstone of modern cosmology, remains largely unproven at the Gpc radial scale and above. Here will show that violations of this type will inevitably cause a first order anisotropic kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. If large scale radial inhomogeneities have an amplitude large enough to explain the "dark energy" phenomena, the induced kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich p...

The nature of dark matter is unknown. A number of dark matter candidates are quantum flavor-mixed particles but this property has never been accounted for in cosmology. Here we explore this possibility from the first principles via extensive N-body cosmological simulations and demonstrate that the two-component dark matter model agrees with observational data at all scales. Substantial reductio...

In order to demonstrate the great importance of Philosophy in elaboration current scientific theories, a parallel was drawn between concepts pre-Socratic and modern theories. Thus, throughout this essay, convergences some elaborations developed by philosophers their reinterpretation from point view, supported method present technological apparatuses, were exposed. sense, having as its core refl...