Historical research guide · 1090 · 1992

Physics of the Plasma Universe

Anthony L. Peratt

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Anthony L. Peratt’s Physics of the Plasma Universe (1992; expanded 2015) collects a plasma-physics approach to structures in space. The publisher’s deposited chapter records list cosmic plasma fundamentals, Birkeland currents, the Biot–Savart law, electric fields, double layers, synchrotron radiation, and cosmic-ray transport. The newer edition adds interstellar hydrogen filaments, galactic Bennett pinches, particle-in-cell simulation, and field-aligned currents from laboratories to aurorae and galactic space. This site did not access or reproduce the closed book. Its guide is limited to the publisher’s table of contents and description: it identifies the mechanisms the book organizes and the observational channels it names, without adding detail from unaccessed pages. The useful question is specific: which field, current, radiation, or plasma measurement can separate a proposed cosmic mechanism from a picture that only looks persuasive?

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This is an entry path for Electric Universe material: it puts currents, magnetic fields, double layers, and radiation beside cosmic structures. It belongs beside measurements, not in place of them.

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The publisher’s chapter records place cosmic plasma fundamentals first, then Birkeland currents, the Biot–Savart law, and electric fields. That sequence sets electrodynamics before the book turns to astrophysical applications.Second edition, chapters 1 to 4, pages 1 to 174
Both editions give double layers their own chapter after electric fields. In plasma language, a double layer is a narrow region with a voltage drop; the contents record the topic but do not supply claims about any particular cosmic object.Second edition, chapters 4 and 5, pages 139 to 203; first edition, chapters 4 and 5, pages 137 to 196
Synchrotron radiation and cosmic-ray transport occupy chapters 6 and 7 in the 2015 edition, pages 205 to 287. They are the book’s listed paths from charged-particle motion and fields to observation.Second edition, chapters 6 and 7, pages 205 to 287
The 2015 edition adds neutral-hydrogen filaments and galactic Bennett pinches in chapters 8 and 9. The rights record attributes that addition to the publisher’s description and chapter metadata, not to unaccessed book prose.Second edition, chapters 8 and 9, pages 289 to 309; Springer’s description of the second edition
Both editions contain a chapter on particle-in-cell simulation of cosmic plasma. The second adds further simulation developments, then a chapter spanning field-aligned currents in laboratory, auroral, and galactic settings.Second edition, chapters 10 to 12, pages 311 to 360
The source record keeps the two editions distinct: 1992 lists eight chapters, while 2015 lists thirteen chapters and an erratum. Each locator names the matching edition because chapter pagination changes.First edition, chapters 1 to 8, pages 1 to 303; second edition, chapters 1 to 14, pages 1 to E2

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2780-9

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TWO EDITIONS, ONE RECORD. The DOI carried by this record, 10.1007/978-1-4612-2780-9, is Springer’s record for the FIRST edition, New York 1992, eight chapters and 283 numbered pages of text. The second edition is a separate Springer record, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-7819-5, Springer New York 2015, print ISBN 978-1-4614-7818-8 and electronic ISBN 978-1-4614-7819-5, thirteen chapters running to page 371 plus an erratum to chapter 13. This sheet describes the work across both, and every locator below names the edition it belongs to. The author is Anthony L. Peratt, sole author of both editions. SOURCE NOT REACHED. The book is closed at the publisher and no copy of it was reached, so no text of it is reproduced here and none was read. SpringerLink answers automated requests for both the book page and the chapter pages with a client-challenge page rather than content, and the Crossref deposits for the individual chapters carry no abstracts. WHAT WAS READ INSTEAD, AND WHERE EACH CLAIM COMES FROM. The table of contents used here is the publisher’s own, reconstructed from the twenty-two chapter records Springer deposited with Crossref under the two book DOIs — each giving a chapter number, a chapter title and a page range — which is why the claims below are located by chapter title and pages rather than by any sentence of the book. The publisher’s description of the second edition, quoted in part in the claims, was read from the Open Library record for the work, OL4088680W, which carries Springer’s own blurb; the biographical detail of thirty-seven years at Livermore and Los Alamos and the Department of Energy, the reliance on Gerrit Verschuur’s research in chapters 8 and 9, the Green Bank 100-metre telescope of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, and the statement about the cosmic microwave background quadrupole moment all come from that description and are attributed to it, never to a page of the book. FIRST EDITION CONTENTS as deposited: 1 Cosmic Plasma Fundamentals, 1 to 41; 2 Birkeland Currents in Cosmic Plasma, 43 to 91; 3 Biot-Savart Law in Cosmic Plasma, 93 to 135; 4 Electric Fields in Cosmic Plasma, 137 to 170; 5 Double Layers in Astrophysics, 171 to 196; 6 Synchrotron Radiation, 197 to 252; 7 Transport of Cosmic Radiation, 253 to 283; 8 Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Cosmic Plasma, 285 to 303. SECOND EDITION CONTENTS as deposited: 1 Cosmic Plasma Fundamentals, 1 to 40; 2 Birkeland Currents in Cosmic Plasma, 41 to 91; 3 Biot-Savart Law in Cosmic Plasma, 93 to 137; 4 Electric Fields in Cosmic Plasma, 139 to 174; 5 Double Layers in Astrophysics, 175 to 203; 6 Synchrotron Radiation, 205 to 257; 7 Transport of Cosmic Radiation, 259 to 287; 8 Critical Ionization Effect in Interstellar Clouds, 289 to 298; 9 Neutral Hydrogen Filaments and Dynamics of Galactic Bennett Pinches, 299 to 309; 10 Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Cosmic Plasma, 311 to 330; 11 Further Developments in Plasma Simulation, 331 to 339; 12 Dynamics of Field-Aligned Currents in the Laboratory, Aurorae, and Galactic Space, 341 to 360; 13 Plasma Astrophysics, 361 to 371; 14 Erratum to Plasma Astrophysics, E1 to E2.

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Anthony L. Peratt (1992) Physics of the Plasma Universe doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-2780-9

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