Gravitation and cosmology: From the Hubble radius to the Planck scale. Proceedings of a symposium in honor of the 80th birthday of Jean-Pierre Vigier, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2000 (Q1860336)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Vargas, J. G.; Torr, D. G.}, From the cosmological term to the Planck constant, 1-10 [Zbl 1032.83517] \textit{Narlikar, Jayant V.}, Creation of matter and anomalous redshifts, 11-26 [Zbl 1032.83520] \textit{Amoroso, Richard L.; Vigier, Jean-Pierre}, The origin of CMBR as intrinsic blackbody cavity-QED resonance inherent in the dynamics of the continuous state topology of the Dirac vacuum, 27-38 [Zbl 1032.83503] \textit{Rindler, Wolfgang}, Some new results in theoretical cosmology, 39-58 [Zbl 1040.83051] \textit{Amoroso, Richard L.}, Developing the cosmology of a continuous state universe, 59-64 [Zbl 1032.83516] \textit{Narlikar, Jayant V.}, Absorber theory of radiation in expanding universes, 81-84 [Zbl 1032.83515] \textit{Cole, Daniel C.}, Connections between thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and special astrophysical processes, 111-124 [Zbl 1170.83307] \textit{Lehnert, Bo}, New developments in electromagnetic field theory, 125-146 [Zbl 1032.83012] \textit{Vigier, J.-P.; Amoroso, R. L.}, Can one unify gravity and electromagnetic fields?, 241-258 [Zbl 1032.83509] \textit{von Borzeszkowski, Horst-Heino; Treder, Hans-Jürgen}, Spinors in affine theory of gravity, 295-302 [Zbl 1032.83034] \textit{Bell, Sarah B. M.; Cullerne, John P.; Diaz, Bernard M.}, A new approach to quantum gravity, 303-312 [Zbl 1032.83027] \textit{Grebeniuk, M. A.; Melnikov, V. N.}, Multidimensional gravity and cosmology and problems of \(G\), 313-320 [Zbl 1032.83510] \textit{Crowell, Lawrence B.}, Quantum gravity operators and nascent cosmologies, 321-330 [Zbl 1032.83514] \textit{MacGregor, Malcolm H.}, Quantum Hall enigmas, 337-348 [Zbl 1036.81525] \textit{Puthoff, H. E.}, Polarizable-vacuum approach to general relativity, 431-446 [Zbl 1032.83507] \textit{Burns, Jean E.}, Vacuum radiation, entropy and the arrow of time, 491-498 [Zbl 1032.83016] \textit{Cyganski, David; Page, William S.}, Quaternions, torsion and the physical vacuum: Theories of M. Sachs and G. Shipov compared, 499-506 [Zbl 1032.83508] \textit{Wolff, Milo}, Cosmology, the quantum universe, and electron spin, 517-524 [Zbl 1032.83518]