2.8 Angstroms: The Unifying Force of G & C

By Kenneth Salem

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962539805
• ISBN13: 9780962539800
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Salem Books
• Length: 123 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Utter nonsense by a crank? Maybe not.

The second I saw this book, I knew it had to be nonsense, as it claims to do what tens of thousands of physicists have been unsuccesful in doing, unifying G and C. And it is self-published, has very little mathematical framework to support its claims.But I bought it for a buck or two at the used book store, and read it, possibly just to feel superior to the author. (I study real physics, mathematically-consistent physics, and it is difficult for me, so I guess I had the need to feel superior to someone, anyone.)But by the end of the book, something started to bug me about his claims, as crazy as they were, they did have a kernel of logic to them. And on the last few pages, he gives credit to the work of physicists that came before him, not the standard "all physicists are liar, plagarists and dead-wrong" kind of thing that is typical of the standard crackpot.I put the book on my shelf, and forgot about it for a few years. Suddenly, today, I came across the 1998 results of the Supernova Cosmology Project and the High-Z Supernova Search. It claims that the universe is accelerating, and Science magazine declared it the breakthrough of the year.As soon as I read this, Kenneth Salem's book pops into my head, because he made the same claim, ALMOST TEN YEARS EARLIER!So am I going to keep my copy of this book? Yes I am. And now that increasing information is coming out in support of Einstein's cosmological constant, Kenneth Salem's book becomes ever more interesting. If you can find this book, buy it, tuck it away and marvel at the forgotten words of this "crackpot."