SILICON VALLEY, Calif., Jan. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Bell-Labs trained Jerome Drexler has authored a trilogy of astro-cosmology books and two scientific papers during the past five years supporting his 2003 claim that the long-sought dark matter of the universe is comprised of multitudinous galaxy-orbiting relativistic protons generating a high level of synchrotron emission throughout the universe as they cross magnetic field lines.
Such galaxy-orbiting relativistic protons would generate synchrotron emission over a broad band spectrum encompassing wavelengths from microwaves to x-rays.
Doubting cosmologists have argued that such synchrotron emission from a relativistic-proton dark matter would have been detected years ago.
This month, NASA space balloon researchers reported their surprising discovery of a mysterious extra-loud radio noise that permeates the universe. It appears to be an extragalactic, synchrotron-emission-based radio noise, six times more intense than anyone predicted. This discovery is based upon measurements in microwave frequency bands of 3, 8, 10, 30, and 90 gigahertz, which peaked in the 3 and 8 GHz detectors. Considering the enormous strength and distribution of the detected radio noise, it conceivably could be generated by Drexler's posited relativistic-proton dark matter.
One of the four January 5, 2009 papers of the researchers is entitled, "ARCADE 2 Observations of [Extra]Galactic Radio Emission" and can be found at (http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.0562v1). ScienceDaily headlined its related article, "NASA Space Balloon Mission Tunes In To Cosmic Radio Mystery." Spacedaily's headline reads, "Loud noise permeates cosmos, NASA says." Science News' heading is, "Tuned In To New Noise From The Cosmos," Sky & Telescope's headline is, "New Cosmic Background Radiation Found," and that of Fox News is "Mystery Roar Detected From Faraway Space."
The NASA researchers discovered the surprisingly strong, uniformly distributed, radio noise power at a level estimated at six times higher than the combined radio emission from all known radio sources in the universe. The spectrum of such radio noise is consistent with that produced by radio galaxies via charged particles spiraling in a magnetic field, which thereby emit radio noise through synchrotron emission. Synchrotron emission is electromagnetic radiation that is emitted from electrically-charged particles moving at relativistic velocities across transverse magnetic field lines, which accelerate the particles.
The loud microwave radio noise is not accompanied by infrared thermal emission as in the case of well-known radio galaxies. But it is accompanied by bremsstrahlung emission radio noise, which is caused by the deceleration of electrically-charged relativistic particles during collisions. The researchers are convinced the noise source does not match any known pattern from sources in the Milky Way and is not from distant galaxies or from decaying particles of exotic dark matter. The above features and characteristics are compatible with Drexler's relativistic-proton dark matter, which thus becomes a logical and plausible candidate for the microwave radio-noise source.
Confidence in the high-power microwave-noise (radio-noise) discovery was e nhanced by a retrospective analysis of several other radio-noise studies in the 1980s and 1990s that hint at the unexpected loud radio noise and also by the fact that the loud radio noise was observed in a part of the microwave spectrum that had not been well studied previously.
The researchers also provided the following information: The noise-detection instrument, launched in July 2006 from NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas, flew to an altitude of 120,000 feet. The researchers base their findings on 2.5 hours of data gathered during a flight of seven radio receivers called ARCADE (Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission). ARCADE's radio receivers, which were cooled to a temperature just 2.7 degrees above absolute zero for the balloon flight are the first detectors capable of identifying the mysterious radio-noise signals.
Is relativistic-proton dark matter a logical and plausible candidate for the source of the loud microwave radio noise? Drexler utilizes the overwhelming evidence provided in his three books, his two scientific papers, his Web site at http://www.jeromedrexler.org/ , the March 1990 paper by Nobel Laureate Harvard Prof. Sheldon L. Glashow, et al., entitled, "Charged Dark Matter," and the September 2008 paper of University of Chicago's Prof. Rocky Kolb, et al., entitled, "Reopening the Window on Charged Dark Matter," to stake his claim that relativistic-proton dark matter is the dark matter of the universe.
The following five publications, covering the physics of relativistic-proton dark matter, the supporting evidence, and dark matter cosmology, also provide plausible explanations for the universe's accelerating expansion, the source of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, how the big bang satisfied the Second Law of Thermodynamics, what caused the initial hyper-inflation period of cosmic inflation, and the nature of the cosmic web:
(1) Book, March 1, 2008, "Discovering Postmodern Cosmology: Discoveries in Dark Matter, Cosmic Web, Big Bang, Inflation, Cosmic Rays, Dark Energy, Accelerating Cosmos."
(2) Scientific paper, physics/0702132, Feb. 15 2007, "A Relativistic-Proton Dark Matter Would Be Evidence the Big Bang Probably Satisfied the Second Law of Thermodynamics."
(3) Book, May 22, 2006, "Comprehending and Decoding the Cosmos: Discovering Solutions to Over a Dozen Cosmic Mysteries by Utilizing Dark Matter Relationism, Cosmology, and Astrophysics."
(4) Scientific paper, astro-ph/0504512, April 22, 2005, "Identifying Dark Matter through the Constraints Imposed by Fourteen Astronomically Based 'Cosmic Constituents.'"
(5) Book, Dec. 15, 2003, "How Dark Matter Created Dark Energy and the Sun: An Astrophysics Detective Story."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THE THREE BOOKS: Jerome Drexler is a former member of the technical staff and group supervisor at Bell Labs, former research professor in physics at New Jersey Institute of Technology, founder and former Chairman and chief scientist of LaserCard Corp.(Nasdaq: LCRD). He has been awarded 76 U.S. patents, honorary Doctor of Science degrees from NJIT and Upsala College, a degree of Honorary Fellow of the Technion, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship at Stanford University, a three-year Bell Labs graduate study fellowship, the 1990 "Inventor of the Year Award" for Silicon Valley and recognition as the original inventor in 1978 of the now widely-used digital optical disk "Laser Optical Storage System" and the LaserCard(R) nanotech data memory. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of New Jersey Institute of Technology and an Honorary Life Member of the Technion Board of Governors.
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CONTACT: Jerome Drexler, 650-941-2716, drexlerastro@aol.com, http://www.jeromedrexler.org
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