From the back cover of the book: "Bob Soberman (left) and Maury Dubin (right), superimposed on the Pioneer 10 launch, were among the first to use rockets and satellites for meteor studies. Separately they gained notoriety for creating the first man made meteors. Between expeditions to the arctic, the equator, and points between to launch scientific rockets, satellites and deep space probes, Bob taught physics and astronomy at NYU, Northeastern, Drexel and the University of Pennsylvania. Maury spent most of his professional career at NASA headquarters administering aeronomy and astronomy programs that piqued his scientific curiosity."

The accepted astrophysical model has "dark matter" providing interaction solely upon bodies in the outer portion of galaxies. What better way to illustrate this then the very name given to one hypothetical candidate proposed to constitute this mass? Weakly Interacting Massive Particles with the seemingly appropriate acronym WIMPs are offered. This is extremely inappropriate. In "Dark Matter Illuminated" Robert K. (Bob) Soberman and Maurice (Maury) Dubin establish beyond doubt that this material is very interactive affecting all astronomy and even our large scale weather daily.

Although implications were observed for over half a century, it was not until the Pioneer 10 and 11 interplanetary spacecraft results were reexamined in 1991 that it was discovered that all three onboard meteoric dust experiments had measured a new population termed cosmoids (a conjunction of cosmic meteoroids). These small, near invisible, ubiquitous bodies are key to the workings of the Sun and stars. Cold, dark loose aggregates of volatile matter, predominantly hydrogen with a size distribution extending from macromolecules to kilometers, cosmoids are the dark matter of the universe.

Dark Matter Illuminated brings this population into the world of measurable astrophysics citing a wealth of experimental data attesting to its existence and normalcy. Observations and measurements, undreamed when the accepted astronomy model was formulated over three quarters of a century earlier, routinely demands bizarre interpretation and contrived "new physics" lacking an understanding of cosmoids, their nature and interactions.

One example is the recent interpretation of the distance to type I supernovae that requires a positive constant in Einstein's theory of general relativity leading to the belief in universal antigravity. The "Big Bang" was a term initially coined in derision of the concept. This theory that has captured the popular imagination resulted from Hubble's assumption that the observed photon redshift is a Doppler change. In consequence, the expanding universe grew. Hubble was mistaken. Big Bang protagonists ignore the rules of physics to satisfy observation (e.g., inflation). To avoid the pitfall of big bang inflation for which there is no basis in physics, an "Ekpyrotic Universe" has been hypothesized. Having two universes collide across a fifth dimension is more bizarre than packaging the universe in a spot, yet this theory rated the cover of a recent issue of the prestigious journal Science.

In popular conception the redshift is a measure of the distance and age of the object observed. Interaction with dark matter micro-particles results in photon energy degradation while forward scatter allows most photons to continue with less energy but direction unchanged. While largely correlated with distance, evidence shows many instances where the correlation fails. What convinced most to accept the "Big Bang" was the discovery of the microwave background radiation. A factor of ten removed from the predicted value it is shown within 1% to be thermal radiation from approaching intergalactic dark matter (cosmic meteoroids).

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