John G. Cramer's 2016 nonfiction book (Amazon gives it 5 stars) describing his transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics, The Quantum Handshake - Entanglement, Nonlocality, and Transactions, (Springer, January-2016) is available online as a hardcover or eBook at: http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319246406 or https://www.amazon.com/dp/3319246402.
SF Novels by John Cramer: Printed editions of John's hard SF novels Twistor and Einstein's Bridge are available from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Twistor-John-Cramer/dp/048680450X and https://www.amazon.com/EINSTEINS-BRIDGE-H-John-Cramer/dp/0380975106. His new novel, Fermi's Question may be coming soon.
Alternate View Columns Online: Electronic reprints of 212 or more "The Alternate View" columns by John G. Cramer published in Analog between 1984 and the present are currently available online at: http://www.npl.washington.edu/av .
References:
Conformal
Cyclic Cosmology:
Roger
Penrose, "Before the big bang: An outrageous new perspective and its
implications for particle physics", Proceedings
of EPAC 2006,
Concentric
Circles in CMB:
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I. K. Wehus and H. K. Eriksen, "A search for concentric circles in the 7-year WMAP temperature sky maps". The Astrophysical Journal 733 (2), L29 (2010); arXiv:1012.1268 [astro-ph.CO].
A. Moss, D. Scott and J.P. Zibin, "No evidence for anomalously low variance circles on the sky". Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2011 (4), 033 (2010); arXiv:1012.1305 [astro-ph.CO].
A. Hajian "Are There Echoes From The Pre-Big Bang Universe? A Search for Low Variance Circles in the CMB Sky". The Astrophysical Journal. 740 (2), 52 (2010). arXiv:1012.1656 [astro-ph.CO].
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