Rotterdam, Holland & Brookfield, VT.
Hardcover, ISBN 90-5410-674-3;
Paperback, ISBN 90-5410-678-5.
From the book's backcover:
Based on a hypothesis about the quantum-physical and embryo-like nature of inflation -- the first instant of the Big Bang -- the theory traces the origin of the precursor nebulae of a broad hierarchy of astronomical objects to sequences of single energy quanta produced by a (random) process of proliferation of inflation-era particles, and provides initial conditions for a specific scenario of how cosmic structure forms and evolves.
The theory has a small number of observationally-accessible parameters and generates many testable predictions, in particular about the formation, evolution, internal structure and composition of collapsed objects like stars and planets. Implying a robust alternative to the dual paradigm of spatially-uniform light-element primordial nucleosynthesis and stellar recycling of matter as the sole mechanism of heavy-element production, it integrates astrophysical and planetary sciences -- their tenets fittingly revised -- with cosmology in a coherent evolutionary framework.
This photo of Spiral Galaxy M100 is copyrighted by The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.
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Also by Professor Erik VanMarcke, Princeton University:
Web Edition of Random Fields: Analysis and Synthesis
First Published in 1983 by M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA
©1998 E. VanMarcke