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Cosmological Synthesis of the Elements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2017

Robert V. Wagoner*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Astronomy and Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 14850, U.S.A.cor1corresp
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Present address. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Dept. of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. 94305, U.S.A.

Abstract

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The results of improved calculations of the abundances of the nuclei produced in big-bang models of the early universe are presented. In addition to the standard model, other possible universes are considered, including the recent statistical bootstrap theory of Carlitz, Frautschi, and Nahm. Some conclusions which can be drawn about the nature of the early universe, depending upon whether the observed deuterium and helium are of galactic or cosmological origin, are presented.

Type
Part III: Relic Radiation
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1974 

Footnotes

Supported in part by the National Science Foundation (GP-26068) at Cornell University and (GP-39178) at Stanford University.

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