COSMOLOGIST SOLVES NASA MYSTERY AND ALSO PROVES THAT THE UNIVERSE IS A BLACK-HOLE 

by Marcelo Samuel Berman, Professional Journalist
Esteemed Member of the American Press Association

This  week, the journal “Astrophysics and Space Science”, published by the mega-publisher SPRINGER,has published, in his November issue (volume 312) a paper titled “The Pioneer Anomaly and a Machian Universe”, by latin-american  cosmologist Marcelo Samuel Berman (Instituto Albert Einstein, at Curitiba), an active member of the New York Academy of Sciences, who solved a NASA mystery, which consists in the explanation of why two Pioneer space-probes, launched more than 30 years ago by NASA, were deaccelerated, and made fall behind 400.000 km in their voyage out of the Solar System.The deacceleration was explained by Dr. Berman as originated from the rotation of the Universe.He says that  many people may get sea-sick when they learn about the rotation. 

According to the cosmologist, the deacceleration is due to a kind of Universal centripetal force.The numerical calculation performed by him shows perfect agreement with NASA experimental data. ”This means that the Universe is Machian (after E. Mach, the Austrian physicist and philosopher that influenced Albert Einstein , inspiring the General Relativity Theory). It has zero-total energy, so that our Universe was made out of nothing—no initial energy, no initial mass”. 

Dr. Berman wrote two books this year, published by Nova Science Publishers, in  the United States, which dealt with cosmology and Einstein´s theories.In those books, the main idea behind the solution of the “Pioneer  Anomaly”, had been advanced.In the first one, whose title is “General Relativity and the Cosmological Constant Problem”, he explains subjects related to the energy of the vacuum, which according to physicists is proportional to the cosmological constant.The introduction of such constant, by Albert Einstein, in the twenty-century early days,was later described by Einstein as having been the greatest blunder in his career. 

Two months ago, Berman published, in the same journal, (volume 311), another  stunning discovery, under which the standard cosmological model, when coupled with Einstein´s equations, revealed that our Universe is a black-hole, or, better,a white-hole, for it is not shrinking, but expanding.The title of his article was in the form of a question---“Is the Universe a White-Hole?”.---Of course it is!!!---says  Marcelo Samuel Berman—while checking his second textbook,”General Relativistic and Scalar-Tensor Cosmologies”. 

In the prefaces of both books, Berman recalls that he was persecuted by the Brazilian military regime, for pertaining to minorities—he is an Argentine, and a Jew—two problematic qualifications, according to several intolerant  Brazilians.