Quasars, Redshifts and Controversies

by Halton C. Arp

Book Overview

Contests the 'establishment' view of quasars as the most distant objects in the universe. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521363144
• ISBN13: 9780521363143
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Startling and compelling

Halton Arp stirs the pot with this one and makes the reader ask fundamental questions about the current theories of cosmology. This should be assigned reading for any astronomy student, but probably will not be. It cuts to the heart of the issues in current astronomy research and funding. After reading this book, one must conclude that the system has not changed much since the days of Galileo. An very easy to read and throughly enjoyable book. My copy has made the rounds. I highly recommend it.

This book explains why the universe is not expanding

Quasars,Redshifts and Controversies reads like a good detective novel - once you start to read, you can't put it down. Arp, the world's foremost quasar researcher, puts forward a convincing case that their high redshift is not due to the expansion of the universe but is an intrinsic effect and caused by their being ejected from the nucleus of comparatively local galaxies.If you like this book, read the new one: it is even better! SEEING RED: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science. by Halton Arp, Apeiron. (Sept 1998) ISBN 0-9683689-0-5