Meet the editor

Professor Brian Albert Robson obtained his MSc, PhD, and DSc degrees in Physics from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is a Fellow of both the Australian Institute of Physics and the UK Institute of Physics. Currently, he is an honorary professor in the Research School of Physics and Engineering, the Australian National University, Canberra. During his academic career, he served for four years as the officer-in-charge of the Australian

National University's first computer, for nine years as the head of the Department of Theoretical Physics, and for two years as an associate director of the Research School of Physics and Engineering. Professor Robson has published more than 150 scientific publications mainly in the areas of nuclear physics, particle physics, gravitation, and cosmology.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

Big Bang

**Section 3**

*by Dietmar E. Rothe*

Torsion-Free Sector

Quantum Gra ity *by Ho-Ming Mok*

*by Brian Albert Robson*

Tired Light Denies the Big Bang

*by Ming-Hui Shao, Na Wang an Zhi-Fu Gao*

Primordial Magnetic Fields and the CMB *by Héctor Javier Hortúa an Leonar o Castañe a*

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Alternati es to the Big Bang of the SMC **11**

**Chapter 2 13**

**Chapter 3 31**

**Chapter 4 51**

Alternati es to the Standard GTR **73**

**Chapter 5 75**

**Chapter 6 93**

Model of an E ol ing and Dynamic Uni erse: Creation without a

Cosmological Solutions to Polynomial Affine Gra ity in the

*by Oscar Castillo-Felisola, José Per iguero an Oscar Orellana*

Cosmological Constant and Particle Masses in Conformal

Introductory Chapter: Standard Model of Cosmology
