Worlds-Antiworld by Hannes Alfven

[Michael Mozina]

I've already read Cosmic Plasma by Hannes Alfven and I've also read his book Cosmical Electrodynamics (second edition). Today I'm finally sitting down to read Alfven's book "Worlds-Antiworlds". Unlike his other books, fortunately this particular book is extremely cheap on Amazon. I actually had enough "points" on my Amex card to get the book for free. I bought it used and I think it was a whopping 7 or 8 dollars on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Antiworld ... 0716703173

I'm about two chapters into the book thus far, and I'd have to say that it's one of the best introductions to EU/PC theory that I've read to date. I'll try to write a full synopsis of the book once I've finished it.

[Bomb20]

And here is a PDF-book downloadable:

https://ia800805.us.archive.org/10/item ... worlds.pdf

[Michael Mozina]

And here is a PDF-book downloadable:

https://ia800805.us.archive.org/10/item ... worlds.pdf

Cool! Thanks for posting the link to the free PDF version. Now I can read it on my computer if I want.

I typically find that I enjoy having a real physical book in my hands sometimes so that I don't have to sit in front of a computer to read it. For under $8, it was well worth having the physical book in my library. Thanks to your PDF version, I never have to lend out my physical book to anyone else and have it not be returned like some of my other favorite books. Thanks.

[Bomb20]

You are welcome, Michael!

I am also in favour of "real" books but sometimes my money and space for books is running out.

The 1950's edition of Cosmical Eectrodynamics is there too.
https://archive.org/stream/CosmicalElec ... 3/mode/2up

And other stuff by Alvén and others can be found here:https://archive.org/

[Michael Mozina]

Well, I finally had time to finish reading Worlds-Antiworlds. It wasn't quite what I expected. Most of his other books include quite a bit of math. I'd describe this particular book as "light reading". It's essentially a "math free" presentation of his basic beliefs, circa 1966, but everything in there is also included in Cosmic Plasma. It doesn't really get into circuit theory as it's applied to plasma like his later book, and it's essentially based upon an "expansion" interpretation of photon redshift.

I enjoyed the book but I must admit that I personally preferred Cosmic Plasma.