Gravitation, Electromagnetism and Cosmology : Toward a New Synthesis

Collection of papers originally presented at an international conference on Redshifts and Gravitation in a Relativistic Universe, held Sept. 17-20, 1999, in Cesena, Italy. Topics covered include the nature of physical law, the mechanism of gravitation, alternatives to the Big Bang model based on the physics of the microcosm, flaws in the thermodynamics of the Big Bang, the enigma of redshift quantization, the conceptual and mathematical foundations of special relativity and electromagnetism, empirical tests that contradict standard relativity theory.