Eric Lerner
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I remember the (greatly simplified for school consumption) story of Kepler and his ellipses replacing the convoluted, yet working, system of epicycles used to explain retrograde and irregular motion in the skies. I remember the argument being between the "big bang", "steady state" and "oscillating". Big Bang has been winning, but I have been watching in dismay over the years as correction after correction has been plugged into the theory and the equations. When you start having to tweak a fine balance between time frames of superluminal spatial expansion, "real" mass of the neutrino, unobserved-yet-needed for the theory supermassive one-dimensional cosmic strings in order to get just the right homogeneity and 'roughness' of the universe... it starts to feel like epicycles all over again. Lerner's treatise is pretty nice in spots.
The Big Bang Never Happened (Book)
Eric Lerner - Plasma Universe Wiki
Lerner at a Google TechTalks presentation in 2007. [1] Eric J. Lerner (b. 1947 Brookline, MA. USA) is an award-winning popular science writer, plasma researcher and advocate of plasma cosmology , [2] In 1991, he authored The Big Bang Never Happened , a popular science book highlighting Plasma Cosmology in comparison to the Big Bang theory. He has also had a number of peer-reviewed papers published, an estimated 600 popular science articles on a variety of subjects, and co-author a documentary on cosmology.
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