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Alternative Cosmologies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Jayant V. Narlikar
Jayant V. Narlikar*
Affiliation:
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Bombay 400 005, India

Abstract

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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.

Type
CHAPTER VI: Theories of Cosmology
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 124: Observational Cosmology , 1987 , pp. 447 - 459
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987 

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