Julio A. Gonzalo: Cosmic paradoxes

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To present cosmology alongside a number of paradoxes at first seems to be an amusing idea.Those used in this slim book of 120 pages are the well-known Olber's paradox, and others assembled by the author under the names "accelerating universe"-, "missing mass"-, "dark energy"-, and "baryon-to-photon ratio" paradox.On the book's cover, it is suggested that they are discussed "in depth with physical and logical content and historical perspective", and that the book "has not much technical content in order to serve a wide audience".In fact, there are only three to four places where calculations are performed which may be non-trivial to the less initiated.The book starts with introductions to energy conservation (Chapters 1, 2) fundamental interactions, and relativistic cosmology (Chapters 6-8) interspersed with a discussion of Olbers paradox (Chapter 5).It is here that I raised an eyebrow because the physical discussion of energy conservation is accompanied with an attack on materialism (H

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