A New Vision of the Early Universe - Second Edition

The observational evidence supporting the Big Bang (BB) is solid, making it widely believed the universe began as a nugget of energy that expanded. But that observational evidence addresses conditions occurring 380,000 years after the BB. The first 380,000 years of cosmic evolution is conjecture.

The current theory centers around the Standard Model's vision of fields, forces, and particles inexplicably popping into existence within the first second. That conjecture has worked for many years and has inspired an edifice of theoretical support, but it stretches credulity and leaves too many unanswered questions.

What if the nugget of energy did not instantaneously turn into particles but was left to expand and lose density? As it thinned, isolated density fluctuations would swirl and grow by accretion, eventually creating thick-density supermassive blackholes, light-density elementary particles, and a thin-density medium of dark energy.

The support for this seemingly wild hypothesis is in the observational evidence demonstrating that everything we know of in the universe, including fields, forces, matter, and time, naturally evolves from relationships between those three energy densities. This is the story of those relationships.

That profound realization comes through in the Second Edition of A New Vision of the Early Universe. It's the culmination of forty years of research and study by the author, Robert J. Conover. The depth of his research, attention to detail, clear prose, and philosophical approach to analyzing difficult issues conspire to make this a well-respected treatise. The work is supported by numerous citations, quotes, and observations from many leading physicists, cosmologists, and mathematicians.

The treatise also addresses other issues in cosmology, such as the mystery of the missing anti-matter, the origin of particle mass, gravity, time dilation, and wave-particle duality.

Sound reasoning and observational evidence makes this new vision one that invites confirmation or rejection on multiple levels. It will surely stimulate discussion, theoretical assault, and experimental analysis for years to come. It is a momentous journey through 380,000 years of evolution that has never before been so thoroughly analyzed or so vividly recounted.