{"product_id":"the-universe-the-electron-and-stephen-blaha-9781732824560","title":"The Universe, The Electron and The Vacuum","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe recent flurry of reports suggesting difficulties with our understanding of the evolution of the universe has led the author to consider a new universal scale factor that specifies the expansion of the universe. Remarkably, it well describes the universe's growth in the large starting from the Big Bang up to the present. But, surprisingly, the growth is punctuated by a major, hitherto unremarked, dip in growth that the author calls the Big Dip. It occurs about the time of the transition from a radiation-dominated to a matter-dominated universe. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe implications of the universal scale factor are presented in a large number of plots of the Hubble Constant, the scale factor, energy density, pressure, and so on that provide a complete picture of the large scale growth of the universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter describing the universal scale factor theory the author justifies its form by a close analogy with electron vacuum polarization in QED. This requires we view the entire history of the universe simultaneously. The universe grows in the vacuum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on this analogy the book suggests a new unknown interaction (force) that \"guides\" the growth of the energy density of the universe, and thereby determines its expansion (and contraction).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Blaha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1732824568\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781732824560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pingree-Hill Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/25\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.25d","brand":"Stephen Blaha","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48445628809471,"sku":"9781732824560","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_74d4ae84-87a9-4386-8f40-fded950dee14.jpg?v=1777219705","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-universe-the-electron-and-stephen-blaha-9781732824560","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}