|
|
< < <
Date Index > > > |
[pf] Professor Sir Fred Hoyle has died. by David MacClement 23 August 2001 02:50 UTC |
< < <
Thread Index > > > |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1503000/1503721.stm starts: Wednesday, 22 August, 2001, 08:56 GMT 09:56 UK 'Big bang' astronomer dies Sir Fred Hoyle challenged the belief the cosmos was caused by an explosion The English astronomer who coined the term "Big Bang" to describe an academic theory on the creation of the cosmos, has died at the age of 86. Despite popularising the theory by giving it a name, Professor Sir Fred Hoyle challenged the belief that the cosmos was caused by a huge explosion 12,000 million years ago. He advocated the "steady state" theory - that the cosmos had no beginning but new galaxies were formed as others moved apart. Sir Fred also put forward the so-called Panspermia Theory, which suggests that life, or the building blocks of life, could be carried to planets by comets or drifting interstellar dust particles. He believed it had all been arranged by a super-intelligent civilisation who wished to seed our planet. Sir Fred - an honorary professor at the University of Wales, Cardiff, at the time of his death - used this theory as the inspiration for one of his many science-fiction novels, The Black Cloud. Published in 1957, it described an intelligent cloud of cosmic dust sapping the Sun of solar energy to create a second Ice Age on Earth. In 1962, Sir Fred wrote A For Andromeda, which became a BBC-TV series, ... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - · The side-box has: “Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe: "I think he had changed the way we think of the universe more profoundly than any scientist in the last 100 years"” · I worry that such way-out ideas as Hoyle had would not be considered by most people now-a-days, even if there were the people-with-good-minds willing to speak out about such ideas. The PR machine seems to be very effective in squashing things that threaten what their paymasters want to do. See Tom Wheeler's post: http://www.westchesterweekly.com/articles/prnation.html Anti-spin activist John Stauber penetrates America's lie machine. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - sent-on by David. David MacClement <mailto:d1v9d@bigfoot.com> http://davd.tripod.com/GrRR-010817_titles.html#top http://www.geocities.com/davd.geo/index.html#top *********************************************** ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://igc.topica.com/u/?aVxifP.aVEN4x Or send an email To: positive-futures-unsubscribe@igc.topica.com This email was sent to: csf@moscow.com T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
|
< < <
Date Index > > > |
Positive Futures List Archives at CSF | Subscribe to Positive Futures |
< < <
Thread Index > > > |