Alternative cosmologies
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1987-04-12
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Dordrecht, D. Reidel Publishing Co.
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This review highlights some of the cosmological theories proposed as alternatives to the standard hot big bang model. Specific ideas discussed here are the matter-antimatter symmetric cosmologies, the empirical two-component model, the G-varying cosmologies, the chronometric cosmology and a simplified quantum cosmology. It is argued that many alternative cosmologies have contributed useful concepts and offered observational tests that have enriched the field of cosmology as a science.
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Antimatter, Gravitation theory, Quantum theory, Space-time functions, Steady state, Cosmology