Towards a Unified Cosmology

	Preface	Preface
	Summary	Summary
PART ONE THE UNIFICATION OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE
1	*The Concept of Unification in Physics*	Chap 1
2	*The Principle of Minimum Assumption*	Chap 2
PART TWO THE PAST AND FUTURE DURATION OF MATTER
3	*Hypotheses about the Origin of Matter*	Chap 3
4	*Hypotheses about the Disappearance of Matter*	Chap 4
5	*Causation and the Judgement of Common Sense*	Chap 5
6	*The Conservation Laws*	Chap 6
7	*Disappearance Without Trace*	Chap 7
PART THREE THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES
8	*Introduction to Part III*	Chap 8
9	*Interstellar Gas*	Chap 9
10	*The Astronomical Landscape*	Chap 10
11	*The Pressure of Radiation*	Chap 11
12	*How Might a Galaxy Begin?*	Chap 12
13	*Growth of an Extragalactic Cloud*	Chap 13
14	*The Average and the Equilibrium Density of the Universe*	Chap 14
15	*Quantitative Treatment of Growth of an Extragalactic Cloud*	Chap 9
16	*Observation, Inference and Speculation*	Chap 16
17	*The Forces that Operate in Extragalactic Space*	Chap 17
18	*The Early Shape and Stucture of an Extragalactic Cloud*	Chap 18
19	*Cloud into Nebula*	Chap 19
20	*Evidence from the Radio Telescope?*	Chap 20
PART FOUR GRAVITATION
21	*Inert, Gravitational and Attracting Mass*	Chap 21
22	*Unsolved Problems of Gravitation*	Chap 22
23	*Misplaced Efforts at Understanding*	Chap 23
24	*Space*	Chap 24
25	*A New Theory of Gravitation*	Chap 25
26	*Answers to Questions About Gravitation*	Chap 26
27	*The Formation of Stars*	Chap 27
28	*Why do Stars and Galaxies Rotate?*	Chap 28
PART FIVE APPENDICES
A	*What Further Steps Towards Unification?*	A
B	*Can a Galaxy Acquire an Infinite Mass?*	B
C	*The Half-Life of Matter*	C
D	*Origin of the Planetary System*	D
E	*The Shrinking Earth*	E
F	*The Inverse Square Law*	F
G	*What is an Elementary Component*	G
H	*Space and Mass*	H
	*Towards a Solution*	Epilogue
		*Index*

* Towards a Unified Cosmology was published in German under the title Die Grundlagen der Physic in Neuer Sicht by Daphnis Verlag, Zurich, 451pp, and is still available from them, George Fischlin, Kappeli Str 15, CH 8002, Zurich, tel: 41 01 202 52 71 fax: 210 42 31

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