The Emancipation of Astronomy for the Common Man: The Principia of Astrophysics' Final Paradigm

By RK

I am not an Astrophysicist, but I've studied Astrophysics all my life.. - I'm likely the only one of them who are very-well studied in it you'll ever get close enough to, who can and has explained it to average people simply enough to understand, as I have done in this book for you. --RK

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: May 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9798886164923

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The Emancipation of Astronomy for the Common Man

The Principia of Astrophysics' Final Paradigm

RK

ISBN 979-8-88616-491-6 (paperback)

ISBN 979-8-88616-492-3 (digital)

Copyright © 2023 by RK

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Table of Contents

Frontispiece

Dedication, Acknowledgments & Thanks

Preface (by Dr. Eric Keefer)

Introduction

Foreword

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Axioms

Seriously Recommended Readings

Seriously Recommended Journeys

Afterword

Biography

Astronomy & Cosmology will never be the same.

The Final Paradigm takes firm hold with this publication.

Frontispiece

The cover photograph is of the Eta Carina gaseous nebula from the Hubble telescope (among others in this book), the most likely origin of our next galactic supernova centered on the Keyhole nebula, very well-known in astronomy circles, which now teeters on the edge of briefly becoming brighter than the entire Milky Way [public domain image].

The Eta Carina nebula (visible from the southern hemisphere) is larger than the Great Orion nebula and is close to 9,000 light years away and about 100 light years across with the Keyhole nebula at its center being about seven across. I hope to see it one day with my own eyes through at least a 14" Cassegrain telescope with a powerful eyepiece.

The Keyhole's central variable star, Eta Carinae, a potential supernova, is emitting natural ultraviolet lasers beaming in many directions (through the surrounding dust & gas) and is one hundred times the mass of Sol (our sun/star).

A self-publication by ArcMan Productions, Second Edition

The caricature art on the back cover was commissioned & drawn by Talon Zendik, a most gifted local artist & good friend. All other art (unless otherwise noted) including the Maya Tzolkin calendar graphic, is my own.

Dedication, Acknowledgments & Thanks

This is dedicated to Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking (and numerous other astronomers, astrophysicists & cosmologists) who've driven me crazy for quite a while trying to understand for fifty years the (now many) maddening theories in astronomy, cosmology & astrophysics today.

This book discredits much of what I've heard from them most of my life but couldn't understand until one day, after several decades of struggle, I found that I simply had to throw it all out & start over. Only then did the inspirations begin to arrive, one at a time, each one constructively building on the one before, until finally the new paradigm was complete. I abandoned astrophysicists & their theories & explanations, not astronomy itself.

I acknowledge all my friends, new and old (over 200 more since 2009), and thank them, who have been very interested to have had me speak to them about all the things in this book and who strongly encouraged me to write it. And though they were not astronomers or astrophysicists, they understood how I explained it to them in layman's terms with enthusiasm.

If I named even one of the new friends with whom I have discussed these things there would be many, many others whose many names I would have to mention as well and it would become longer than tills book, very few of whom are professionals, but friends all.

Thanks to the North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement (NCCCR, now re-branded as the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, OLLI) for the chance they gave me in hearing me out on the subject this book addresses. I was referred by them to the staff of the Astrophysics Department at UNCA (for the calculus they felt was needed to present the course) from whom I never heard after several attempts to communicate, both personally and by e-mail.

And let's never forget Nikola Tesla (among many others).

Preface (by Dr. Eric Keefer)

by Dr. Eric (Raven) Keefer, D.D.

Conversation is a fine and very lost art. What a loss to mankind.

Many hours of my life have been sent away to the past with gracious, deep and enwisening conversations with scholars, builders, comedians or vagrants equally leading me to other questions or to further seek another answer due to dissatisfaction with the answers previously given to or bound by me. It has been in the most unexpected and uninspired moments that I have found an understanding that had eluded me on any given subject up to that very moment.

The conversations held in my home, by phone, by e-mail and even by text today have run the gambit from the global to the specific, from esoteric and the mysteries to the sciences and wisdoms. It has been with great satisfaction that I have passed so many hours as I have been allowed in the company and conversation with the author of this work. Greater solutions and greater questions are quickly found to be at the tip of the tongue and depths of the mind when the dialectic partner is such as him.

The Native in me speaks in upward and downward spirals, conversations that wrap end-around until returning to the beginning of the conversation looking for another direction in which to direct the questions and thoughts that have become more clearly seen in the first round of words. The author of this work has ever been quick to turn those corners of thought and perception with me, sometimes the guide, other times a walking partner along a mountain