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Cosmology in the Plasma Universe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

Hannes Alfvén
Hannes Alfvén
Affiliation:
The Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Plasma Physics S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
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Abstract

Space observations have opened the spectral regions of X-rays and γ-rays, which are produced by plasma processes. The Plasma Universe derived from observations in these regions is drastically different from the now generally accepted ‘Visual Light Universe’ based on visual light observations alone. Historically this transition can be compared only to the transition from the the geocentric to the heliocentric cosmology.

The purpose of this paper is to discuss what criteria a cosmological theory must satisfy in order to be acceptable in the Plasma Universe.

Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , August 1988 , pp. 389 - 398
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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