Astronomers Must Maximize Knowledge Derived From GLAST, UV-COS/Hubble

LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif., May 25 - Astronomers are building more and more advanced telescopic systems by utilizing space platforms, employing adaptive optics, and by combining images derived from photons at different wavelengths. With the cost of such projects sky-rocketing and Russia catching up, US astronomers must be trained to maximize the knowledge derived from astronomical data. Examples in 2008: GLAST's gamma rays and the COS/Hubble's ultraviolet rays.

These goals can be achieved by establishing and utilizing new graduate courses, seminars, case study methods, or visiting lecturers to cover relevant academic subjects. The subjects might include information theory, statistical analysis, cryptography, the interpretation of astronomical data, current limitations of telescopic methods, Occam's razor logic, astrophysical relationism, theories of galaxy formation, the logical principles of Sudoku, dark matter cosmology and competing approaches in the astronomer's specialty. This latter subject is worth exploring and discussing with respect to three recent examples, as follows:

Today, most dark matter searches are being done in deep underground mines in order to shield the detectors and instrumentation from being bombarded by high-energy cosmic ray protons. But Jerome Drexler, author of astro-cosmology books in Dec. 2003 and May 2006, has posited that these same cosmic ray protons are stragglers from the dark matter protons in the Milky Way's dark matter halo and that they emit UV and EUV photons.

Fortunately, on Oct. 31, 2006, NASA announced that it will upgrade the Hubble telescope in the spring of 2008. The new Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) will be installed in the Hubble, increasing its ability to detect ultraviolet (UV) and extreme UV by a factor of 30. Also, on June 20, 2006, Boris Shustov, Director of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, announced that dark matter particles emit UV photons and that a space-based telescope will be launched in 2010 to detect them.

In a scientific paper on the use of the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) to detect particle dark matter, an assumption was made that gamma-rays are produced by pair annihilation of dark matter Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPS) Since WIMPs have not been detected after 20 years of searches, they may not exist.

Drexler believes that dark matter comprises galaxy-orbiting relativistic protons that emit gamma rays when the protons enter into collisions with dust and molecules and generate Bremsstrahlung radiation. Since GLAST will be a space-based telescope with limited future access, he feels that GLAST should be modified to enable it to detect either proton-generated gamma rays or WIMP-generated gamma rays. The GLAST mission is scheduled to launch in the fall of 2007 from the Kennedy Space Center.

The recent 3D mapping of the dark matter of the universe is a major astronomical accomplishment of NASA and the Hubble telescope. However, the astronomers' reports of so-called discrepancies and anomalies in the distribution of dark matter relative to the distribution of ordinary matter has prevented the 3D mapping from being an immediate cosmological success.

However, based upon the astronomers' stated concerns about the so-called anomalies and discrepancies, they apparently believe in the bottom-up theory of galaxy formation, not the top-down theory. The astronomical data the astronomers were concerned about appear to support the top-down theory of galaxy formation and if these data had been described to the public in that manner there would not have been an issue of discrepancies or anomalies.

In recent years Drexler discovered and developed both the concept of "dark matter cosmology" and methods to maximize the amount of knowledge that can be derived from astronomical data. He also searched for and found a number of scientific papers that reported astronomical data in conjunction with a remaining cosmological mystery or enigma. He then used this substantial amount of astronomical data, ideas from his December 2003 book, and new analytical methods to derive, in his 2006 book, plausible explanations for at least 15 and up to as many as 25 cosmic mysteries.

The title of Drexler's Dec. 2003 book is, "How Dark Matter Created Dark Energy and the Sun." The title of his April 22, 2005, 19-page scientific paper is, "Identifying Dark Matter Through the Constraints Imposed by Fourteen Astronomically Based 'Cosmic Constituents.'"

The title of Drexler's 2006 book is, "Comprehending and Decoding the Cosmos: Discovering Solutions to Over a Dozen Cosmic Mysteries by Utilizing Dark Matter Relationism, Cosmology, and Astrophysics." This book provides strong scientific evidence that the dark matter of the universe is comprised of galaxy-orbiting relativistic protons. This is demonstrated by utilizing the relativistic-proton dark matter hypothesis, in conjunction with the laws of physics, to derive plausible explanations for many unsolved cosmic mysteries.

Drexler is prepared to donate ten of his 2006 books plus ten of his 2003 books to each of the first 15 US universities requesting the books for the purposes described in this newswire. Both books are published by Universal Publishers and both books have been on Amazon.com's Astrophysics Best Seller list recently in the United Kingdom. They are sold by Universal Publishers, Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com, and other book sellers.

Jerome Drexler, former NJIT Research Professor of physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and retired Chairman and chief scientist of LaserCard Corp. (Nasdaq: LCRD), began his career as a Member of the Technical Staff of Bell Laboratories. He has been granted 76 U.S. patents, honorary Doctor of Science degrees from NJIT and Upsala (Uppsala) College, degree of Honorary Fellow of the Technion, an Alfred P.Sloan Fellowship at Stanford University, a three-year Bell Labs graduate study fellowship, the "Inventor of the Year" Award in 1990 for Silicon Valley, and the AMP program at Harvard.

CONTACT: Jerome Drexler, 650-941-2716, drexlerastro@aol.com

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