Invisible Universe Research Articles

Hypothesis of the Hidden Multiverse Explains Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Analysis of WMAP and Planck spacecraft data has proved that we live in an invisible Multiverse, referred to as hidden, that has a quaternion structure. It explains the reason for the mutual invisibility of parallel universes contained in the hidden Multiverse. It is shown that the hidden Multiverse includes most likely twenty parallel universes from different dimensions, six of which are adjacent to our universe. Besides, edges of the hidden Multiverse are connected to other (from one to four) Multiverses, which are observable neither by electromagnetic nor by gravitational manifestations. The Multiverse described contains four matter-antimatter pairs, annihilation of which is prevented by relative spatial position of the universes. The experimental proof of existence of the hidden Multiverse is explained to be the phenomenon of dark matter and dark energy that correspond to other invisible parallel universes, except ours, included in the hidden Multiverse. General scientific principle of physical reality of imaginary numbers, refuting some of the statements of the existing version of the special theory of relativity, is a physical and mathematical foundation of the outlined conception of the hidden Multiverse. The article presents relativistic formulas of the theory of special relativity adjusted in accordance with the principle. It also offers appropriate interpretation of multidimensional space of the hidden Multiverse.

From the Atom to the Universe: Recent Astronomical Discoveries

JEREMIAHP. OSTRIKER, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1975, is the Charles A. Young Pro fes sor Emeritus of Astrophysics at Prince ton University and Professor of As tronomy at Columbia Univer sity. His research interests concern dark matter and dark energy, gal axy formation, and quasars. His publications include Heart of Dark ness: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe (with Simon Mitton, 2013) and the volumes Formation of Structure in the Universe (edited with Avishai Dekel, 1990) and Un solved Problems in Astrophysics (edited with John Bahcall, 1997). He was the recipient of the U.S. National Med al of Science in 2000. Astronomy starts at the point to which chemistry has brought us: atoms. The basic stuff of which the planets and stars are made is the same as the terrestrial material discussed and analyzed in the 1⁄2rst set of essays in this volume. These are the chemical ele ments, from hydrogen to uranium. Hydrogen, found with oxygen in our plentiful oceanic water, is by far the most abundant element in the universe; iron is the most common of the heavier elements. All the combinations of atoms in the complex chem ical com pounds studied by chemists on Earth are also possible components of the objects that we see in the cos mos. Although almost all of the regions that we astronomers study are so hot that the more com pli cated compounds would be torn apart by the heat, some surprisingly unstable organic molecules, such as cyanopolyynes, have been detected in cold re gions of space with very low density of matter. Nev ertheless, the astronomical world is simpler than the chemical world of the laboratory or the real bio log ical world. But the enormous spatial and temporal extent of the cosmos allows us–and in fact forces us–to ask questions that would seem offbeat to a chemist. Where do the chemical elements come from? Precisely how, where, and when were they made? Do the abundances of the elements change with time? Does alternative “matter” that is not made of the or dinary chemical elements exist and exert gravity in the universe? We in the trades of astronomy and as trophysics must ask ourselves these ques tions–and they are only the beginning.

Night vision: exploring the infrared universe

Preface 1. Introduction 2. William Herschel opens up the invisible universe 3. 1800-1950: slow progress - the moon, planets, bright stars, and the discovery of interstellar dust 4. Dying stars shrouded in dust and stars being born: the emergence of infrared astronomy in the 60s and 70s 5. Birth of far infrared and submillimetre astronomy: clouds of dust and molecules in our Galaxy 6. The cosmic microwave background, echo of the Big Bang 7. The Infrared Astronomical Satellite and the opening up of extragalactic infrared astronomy: starbursts and active galactic nuclei 8. The Cosmic Background Explorer and the ripples, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Explorer, and dark energy 9. Giant ground-based infrared and submillimetre telescopes 10. The Infrared Space Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope: the star-formation history of the universe and infrared galaxy populations 11. Our dusty Solar System, debris disks and the search for exoplanets 12. The future: pioneering space missions and giant ground-based telescopes Notes Credits for illustrations Further reading Bibliography Glossary Index of names Index.

Book Review: The Invisible Universe, Heart of Darkness: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe

THE INVISIBLE UNIVERSE Heart of Darkness: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe. Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Simon Mitton (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2013). Pp. xxii + 299. $27.95. ISBN 978-0-691-13430-7.As witnessed by classics such as James Jeans's The mysterious universe, Willem de Sitter's Kosmos and Arthur Eddington's The expanding universe, cosmology has for nearly a century been a favourite subject for science books aimed at a general readership. The book under review is one of numerous books of its kind and it follows a pattern that was familiar to Jeans and his generation: to tell about the most recent developments by presenting them as the culmination of a long historical tradition. The two authors have written an engaging and fairly detailed narrative that focuses on developments in the twentieth century, from Einstein's cosmological model of 1917 to the sensational 'discovery' of dark energy about eighty years later. Aware of the continuities as well as discontinuities in history, they begin their cosmic journey with a brief prologue on the development from Aristarchus to Einstein. This part is fragmentary and meant only as an introduction. Yet it is disturbing to read that Ptolemy's Almagest was a standard astronomical work in Europe for about 1,400 years, and it is no less disturbing - or revealing? - to read concerning Galileo's discoveries of Jupiter's satellites and the phases of Venus: At a stroke, these observations decisively demolished the Aristotelian cosmos (p. 11).As indicated by the title, a substantial part of the book deals with the problems of dark matter and structure formation in the universe. These are the areas in which one of the authors, the distinguished astrophysicist Jeremiah Ostriker, did pioneering work in the 1970s, and they are explained very well. (The other author, Simon Mitton, will be known to historians of astronomy for his biography of Fred Hoyle.) Heart of darkness also covers even more recent developments such as dark energy, inflation theory and - briefly - multiverse speculations. These parts are written clearly and authoritatively, although they are somewhat disappointing from a historical point of view. For example, they ignore developments before the 1970s such as the fascinating history of how the cosmological constant eventually became identified with the vacuum energy predicted by quantum mechanics. Incidentally, the two authors express some dislike of the standard interpretation of dark energy as a manifestation of the cosmological constant, a quantity they hope will be replaced by something more plausible in the future (p. …

Top secret America: the rise of the new American security state

The top-secret world that the government created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks has become so enormous, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs or exactly how many agencies duplicate work being done elsewhere. The result is that the system put in place to keep the United States safe may be putting us in greater danger. In TOP SECRET AMERICA, award-winning reporters Dana Priest and William Arkin uncover the enormous size, shape, mission and consequences of this invisible universe of over 1,300 government facilities in every state in America; nearly 2,000 outside companies used as contractors and more than 850,000 people granted 'Top Secret' security clearance. A landmark expose of a new, secret 'Fourth Branch' of American government, TOP SECRET AMERICA is a tour de force of investigative reporting-and a book sure to spark national and international alarm.

Round the clock, space telescope stands watch on invisible universe

Round the clock, space telescope stands watch on invisible universe

Gary Snyderís American-Asian Shamanism

In Kyoto on 15 June 1956, in the second month of first long sojourn in Asia, the young Gary Snyder (1930-) already found evidence of what he called shamanism: Leaving the temple this morning walked by a small fox shrine where a Zen monk was chanting: there I heard the subtle steady single-beat of oldest shamanism. basic song (Earth 35). passage indicates that Snyder sensed traces of shamanism in both contemporary Japanese Buddhism and Shintoism, since the chant was uttered by a Buddhist monk, whereas the shrine's fox-spirit image represents a Shinto kami. (1) passage also reveals that Snyder's belief in shamanism includes an intercontinental feature: Shamanism is American-Asian, an epithet that links shamanistic practices in American-Indian and Asian traditions. Furthermore, behind the American-Asian epithet lies Snyder's belief that the Pacific Rim forms a single cultural zone and a single bioregion. (2) present essay will try to answer the following questions. How does Snyder's personal belief in shamanism both coincide with and deviate from concepts of shamanism generally accepted by scholars in the fields of religion, anthropology, psychology, and literature? What role does shamanism play in Snyder's system of thought? What deities, spirits, and figures in Snyder's writings are presented as shamans and shamanesses? What impact does Snyder's knowledge of shamanistic ritual exert on the structure and meaning of poems? Finally, how does he carry belief in shamanism into the activities of life, and how are those activities depicted and presented in poems? I SNYDER'S BELIEF IN SHAMANISM We have to bear in mind that Snyder is by no means an amateur in the field of myth and ritual theory. When he studied at Reed College, Portland, from 1947 to 1951, he majored in anthropology, and BA thesis on The Dimension of a Haida Myth (3) treats American Indian myth with an emphasis on shamanism and the motif of the swan maiden. Therefore, if some of notions of shamanism deviate from the mainstream of thought on the topic, it should be ascribed to ignorance on part but rather to a need to develop own system of thought, which has incorporated notions of shamanism along with many other religious and philosophical ideas. In order to discern the unique nature of Snyder's ideas, however, it is first necessary to ascertain what concepts of shamanism scholars in various fields generally accept. An all-encompassing definition of shamanism is impossible, since study of the topic has branched out into many disciplines, such as religion, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and literature. Roughly, shamanism may be described as a system of practices ministered by a shaman or shamaness who functions as the healer, prophet, or controller of spirits and as a sorcerer for or her community. Eliade Guide to World Religions defines shamanism as not a religion per se, but a system of ecstatic and therapeutic methods whose purpose is to obtain contact with the parallel yet invisible universe of the spirits and win its support in dealing with human affairs (Eliade, Couliano, and Wiesner 214). Thus, Mircea Eliade considers shamanism to be a set of practices rather than a set of theological ideas. Since the late nineteenth century, many scholars of religion and anthropology have made field trips to study the shamanistic practices of tribes in Siberia, on American Indian reservations, in south Asia, or in Africa; the tribes were isolated from and relatively untouched by modern civilizations. Largely drawing conclusions from such field studies, Eliade holds that a shaman is a great master of ecstasy, who is able to control his helping spirits, in the sense that he is able to communicate with the dead, demons, and nature spirits without thereby becoming their instrument (Eliade, Adams, et al. …

Review: Microbes: An Invisible Universe, by Howard Gest

Book Review| November 01 2003 Review: Microbes: An Invisible Universe, by Howard Gest Microbes: An Invisible UniverseHoward Gest Rhoda Garcia Rhoda Garcia Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The American Biology Teacher (2003) 65 (9): 719. https://doi.org/10.2307/4451605 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Rhoda Garcia; Review: Microbes: An Invisible Universe, by Howard Gest. The American Biology Teacher 1 November 2003; 65 (9): 719. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/4451605 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe American Biology Teacher Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright National Association of Biology Teachers Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

The Invisible Universe Online: Design of a Distance-learning Astronomy Course for Secondary Science Teachers

The Invisible Universe Online: Design of a Distance-learning Astronomy Course for Secondary Science Teachers

The Invisible Universe Online: Evaluation Summary of a Distance-learning Astronomy Course for Secondary Science Teachers

The Invisible Universe Online: Evaluation Summary of a Distance-learning Astronomy Course for Secondary Science Teachers

Life by the Numbers.

The Invisible Universe. Seeing is Believing. Patterns of Nature. The Numbers Game. The Shape of the World. Chances of a Lifetime. A New Age. It's an M World. Further Reading. Credits. Index.

In the Mirror of the Eighth King

Christopher Middleton. In the Mirror of the Eighth King. Kobenhavn & Los Angeles: Green Integer, 1999. In his essay Introduction an Unpublished Anthology of Short Prose ( 1992), which appears in another recent collection,' Christopher Middleton adopts from German the long-recognized term Kurzprosa for genre he calls a changeling in the extended family of literary ( 179). He identifies some characteristics: brevity and density, an ambiguous relation narrative, the enablement of sudden epiphany of the inconspicuous, and general instability. Further, he writes, [t]he animular miniaturism of short prose...secretes subversive force, as well as ludic force (178). These designations all may seem peculiarly appropriate Robert Walser, the earlytwentieth-century Swiss writer whose critical reception Middleton inaugurated in the 1950s both as Germanist and as translator. Yet Middleton traces long genealogy for the form, from Apuleius and Attar, through Thomas Traherne, Pascal, and Johann Peter Hebel, Nietzsche, Kafka, and Benjamin, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Slawomir Mrozek, and Rosmarie Waldrop. (An even more updated list of references would no doubt include Lydia Davis, Ben Marcus, and Yoko Tawada, among others.) And he catalogues multitude of its narrative and non-narrative manifestations: parable, fable, anecdote, dream report, meditation, aphorism, pensee, Groteske, journal entry, etc. Middleton points the etymology of the word prose as an indication of the genre's structure; it derives from proversus, meaning to turn forward. In an earlier review of the subject, he claims that long prose forms involve sustained unfolding of ratio toward mystery which the unspeakable end of fiction, whereas short imaginative prose is made of language that attuned the notion that truth cannot be beheld, only glimpsed.2 But in this more recent essay he less explicit about the distinction, and it would appear that the species-being of short prose can be most securely identified by the difference it enacts in its modulation of this forward-turning-the absence or, more frequently, the intensification of itand by the attention it calls the tropism itself, the fact that it prose at all. While Middleton far better known as lyric poet and translator, it clear that short prose has long commanded his creative and critical attention. In the Mirror of the Eighth King, his third full book in the genre, (appropriately packaged in an attractive Green Integer octodecimo), consists of eighteen pieces, ranging in brevity from under two hundred words over five thousand, and all bristling with an intelligence that precipitately cons its own hairpin turns of syntax, while carrying in its hold the gravity that it would seem countermand. Unlike the demure inventions included in Our Flowers & Nice Bones (1969), the rambunctious, brocaded grotesques of Pataxanadu (1977), or the unpunctuated freshets and whirlpools of Serpentine (1985), these essays, as the jacket blurb would have it,4 are more reflective and self-consciously philosophical, staged at the vanishing points of inquiry and imagination, and continue his exploration of the genre as an instrument of perception. In way, each crucible in which collisions of consciousness and its limits are discharged at tremendously high velocities, as if by doing so invisible universes on just the other side from this one might finally disclose themselves, measure be won, the author find my in this place (50). Dream, memory, and metaphor (as poetic thinking) are the locations be inhabited. But while language dispatched them on reconnaissance, it comes back each time too late have staked claim: phenomenon similar what Laplanche, following Freud, translates as afterwardsness-though here the enigma not only the barely recalled communication, but what communicated in recall itself. …

The interstellar traveler

We investigate the physics of an interstellar journey on board a spaceship with a constant acceleration, in the framework of special relativity. It is in principle possible to cross the Galaxy within a human lifetime. The aspect of the sky seen from the spaceship is severely distorted by relativistic aberration; most of the visible sky shrinks to a small region of strongly enhanced luminance in the direction of motion, leaving the rest of the celestial sphere almost entirely dark. The invisible universe becomes perceptible by the traveler, as the infrared and radio radiations are Doppler-shifted to visible frequencies in the direction of motion. Navigational problems posed by these relativistic effects are examined.

Unseen horizons: the future of astronomy

The Invisible Universe: Probing the Frontiers of Astrophysics. By George B. Field and Eric J. Chaisson Birkhauser: 1985. Pp.195. SwFr. 58, $19.95.

Book Review: X-Ray Astronomy in the USA: Glimpsing an Invisible Universe: The Emergence of X-ray Astronomy

Book Review: X-Ray Astronomy in the USA: Glimpsing an Invisible Universe: The Emergence of X-ray Astronomy

極限へのアプローチ Ｉ 巨大・微細 見えない宇宙を探る

極限へのアプローチ Ｉ 巨大・微細 見えない宇宙を探る

Book reviews

Abstract Magnetism and Ligand-Field Analysis. By M. Gerloch. (Cambridge University Press, 1984.) [Pp. xiii + 593.] £55.00. Scope: Treatise/Textbook. Level: For specialists only. Reviews of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, Volume 2 Optically Pumped Far-infrared Lasers. Edited by K. J. Button, M. Inguscio and F. Strumia. (Plenum Press, 1984.) [Pp. viii + 483.] $69.50. Scope: Survey. Library (reference). Level: For specialists only. Microscopy of Semiconducting Materials, 1983. Proceedings of the Institute of Physics Conference, Oxford, March 1983. Edited by A. G. Cullis, S. M. Davidson and G. R. Booker. (The Institute of Physics, 1983.) [Pp. xi + 520.] E32.00. Scope: Conference proceedings. Level: Specialist postgraduate. Staticsand Dynamics of Nonlinear Systems. Proceedings of a Workshop at the Ettore Majorana Centre, Erice, Italy, July 1983. Edited by G. Benedek, H. Bilz and R. Zeyher. (Springer-Verlag, 1984.) [Pp. viii + 31 1.] DM 75; $c. 29.10. Scope: Conference proceedings. Level: For specialists only. Glimpsing an Invisible Universe. The Emergence of X-ray Astronomy. By R. F. Hirsch.(Cambridge University Press, 1983.) [Pp. viii + 186.] L20.00. Sputtering by Particle Bombardment, 11. (Alloys and Compounds; Electron and Neutron Sputtering; Surface Topography.) Edited by R. Behrisch. (Springer-Verlag, 1983.) [Pp. xiii + 391.] DM 109; $42.50. Scope: Treatise/Textbook. Level: Specialist postgraduate. The LMTO Method. Mufin-Tin Orbitals and Electronic Structure. By H. L. Skriver. (Springer-Verlag, 1984.) [Pp. ix+281.] DM 84; $c. 32.60. Scope: Library. Level: Specialist postgraduate. Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics. Edited by M. Jacob. (North-Holland, 1982.) [Pp. viii + 836.] Dfl 180.00; $76.50. Scope: Survey, Library (reference). Level: For specialists and Specialist postgraduates. Proceedings of a Symposium on Numerical and Physical Aspects of Aerodynamic Flows, 11.(California State University, Long Beach, January 1983.) Edited by T. Cebecci. (Springer-Verlag, 1984.) [Pp. xi+416.] DM 152; $c. 56.90. Scope: Conference proceedings. Level: For specialists and Specialist postgraduates. Physics Handbook. Second edition. Elementary Constants and Units, Tables, Formulae and Diagrams, and Mathematical Formulae. By C. Nordling and J. Österman. (Chartwell Bratt Ltd., 1983.) [Pp. 431.] £15.00 hardback; £8.90 paperback. Scope: Textbook. Level Undergraduate, School, General reader. Advances in Nuclear Physics, Volume 13. Edited by J. W. Negele and E. Vogt. (Plenum Press,1984.) [Pp. xiv + 326.] $49.50. Scope: Survey. Level: Specialist post-graduate. Atomic and Molecular Physics of Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion. Edited by C. J. Joachain and D. E. Post. (Plenum Press, 1983.) [Pp. x + 526.] $79.50. Scope: Conference Proceedings.Level: Specialist post-graduate. Rydberg States of Atoms and Molecules. Edited by R. F. Stebbings and F. B. Dunning.(Cambridge University Press, 1983.) [Pp.ix + 515.] £40.00; £79.50. Scope: Survey. Level:Specialist post-graduate. Electron Microscopy and Analysis, 1983 Proceedings of the Institute of Physics Electron Microscopy and Analysis Group Conference at the University of Surrey, August-September 1983. Edited by P. Doig. (The Institute of Physics, 1984.) [Pp. xviii+ 530.] £34.00. Scope: Conference Proceedings. Level: Specialist post-graduate. Workshop on Non-Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics held at Oklahoma State University in March 1983. Papers edited by K. A. Milton and M. A. Samuel. (Birkhauser-Verlag, Basle, 1984.) [Pp. x + 265.] SFr 64. Scope: Conference Proceedings. Level: For specialists only. A Development of Quantum Mechanics based on Symmetry Considerations. By G. H. Duffey.(D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1984.) [Pp. xiii + 342.] Dfl150.00. Scope: Textbook. Level: Undergraduate. Gauge Symmetries and Fibre Bundles. By A. P. Balachandran, G. Marmo, B.-S. Skagerstam and A. Stern. (Springer-Verlag, 1983.) [Pp.iv+ 140.] DM 18; $c. 7.00. Scope: Textbook. Level: For specialists only; Specialist post-graduate. Scaling and Self. Similarity in Physics. Edited by J. Fröhlich. (Birkhauser, 1983.) [Pp. vi +426.] SFr 66. Scope: Treatise. Level: For specialists only; Specialist post-graduate. Magnetic Phase Transitions, Proceedings of a Summer School at the Ettore Majorana Centre, Erice, Italy, July 1983. Edited by M. Auslcos and R. J. Elliott. (Springer-Verlag, 1983.)[Pp. vii + 269.] DM 75; $c. 29.10. Scope: Conference Proceedings. Level: For specialists only. Theory of Symmetry Changes at Continuous Phase Transitions. By J. Kocinski. (Elsevier/Polish Scientific Publications, 1983.) [Pp. viii +283.] Dfl170.00; $72.75, USA and Canada only.Scope: Treatise/Textbook. Level For specialists only. The Solar System. By Roman Smoluchowski. (Scientific American Books/W. H. Freeman,1983.) [Pp. 174 +Index.] £10.95. Scope: Treatise. Level: General reader. The Science of Musical Sound. By John R. Pierce. (Scientific American Books/W. H. Freeman, 1983.) [Pp. 150+x.] £10.95. Level: General reader. The Wave-Particle Dualism. A tribute to Louis de Broglie on his 90th Birthday. Edited by S. Diner, D. Fargue, G. Lochak and E. Selleri. (D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht, 1984.)[Pp. vii + 566.] Dfl190.00. Scope: Conference Proceedings. Level: For specialist only.

Glimpsing an Invisible Universe: The Emergence of X-Ray Astronomy

Now in paperback, this book deals with the evolution of Xray astronomy during the initial phases of its development. The story commences in the late 1950S with the discovery of high-energy radiations from beyond the solar system, and is taken through to the point at which X-ray astronomers began exploring questions of broader interest in astronomy. In examining this early period, when scientists acquired fundamental data and the rudiments of theory, the author shows how technical progress, and public policy changes played important roles in advancing the subject. Three transformations of astronomy as a discipline are highlighted: the augmentation of purely optical observations; the emergence of federal funding as the dominant source of financial support; and the greatly altered size and structure of the research community.

Glimpsing an Invisible Universe: The Emergence of X-Ray Astronomy. Richard F. Hirsh

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsGlimpsing an Invisible Universe: The Emergence of X-Ray Astronomy. Richard F. Hirsh Norriss S. HetheringtonNorriss S. Hetherington Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 75, Number 4Dec., 1984 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/353667 Views: 2Total views on this site Copyright 1984 History of Science Society, Inc.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Glimpsing an Invisible Universe: The Emergence of X-ray Astronomy

Richard F Hirsh 1983 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press viii + 186 pp price £20 ISBN 0 521 25121 4 This book is a history of x-ray astronomy's infancy, from its roots in upper-atmosphere research to the UHURU satellite in the early 1970s. Hirsh analyses the roles of funding, public policy, instrumental innovation and flight opportunities, as well as the contributions of the individual scientists and their research groups.