"The Static Universe" is an anthem for the growing number of skywatchers who are heartily sick and tired of being led up the garden path. Is the Universe expanding? Maverick astrophysicist Hilton Ratcliffe, author of the highly controversial book "The Virtue of Heresy", argues that it is not, and if he's right, an entire body of science is brought to its knees. The impact of the ensuing catastrophe will be devastating, and the cost to those who doggedly defend the prevailing paradigm is inestimable. It certainly runs to billions of dollars. In a world where self-interest rules, the author of this shocking expos is literally putting himself on the line. Big Brother does not want you to read this!

The Static Universe: Exploding the Myth of Cosmic Expansion

Science & Math

Ratcliffe, Hilton

Astronomy & Space Science

Apeiron

Heresy: The declaration of opinions contrary to prevailing doctrine; opposition to dogma; unorthodox approach to science; method employed by one’s intellectual enemy; behaviour characteristic of a crank. In the course of using essential theories of science in my decades-long attempt to demystify the heavens, I became increasingly frustrated by ideas that just didn’t harmonise. If we were uncovering the truth, I reasoned, then the component parts devised by disparate specialists should dovetail neatly together. But they don’t. Classical Newtonian Mechanics doesn’t see eye-to-eye with Einstein’s Relativity; both are sneered at by Quantum Mechanics. Theories highly successful in their own right seemed when compared with one another to be describing different universes. That was a train-smash, both for me and for the progress of science, as I understood it. This book is an account of that crisis. But fear not, it’s not a high-tech science report for über-geeks. It’s a storybook filled with myth and adventure. It’s science unplugged. Take your time. This heresy will change your life. Hilton Ratcliffe, Astronomer with a Mental Squint.

The Virtue of Heresy: Confessions of a Dissident Astronomer, Second Edition, Revised and Updated

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

BookSurge Publishing

Heresy: The declaration of opinions contrary to prevailing doctrine; opposition to dogma; unorthodox approach to science; method employed by one's intellectual enemy; individual behaviour often attracting the label "crank". In the course of using essential theories of science in my decades-long attempt to demystify the heavens, I became increasingly frustrated by ideas that just didn't harmonise. If we were uncovering the truth, I reasoned, then the component parts devised by disparate specialists should dovetail neatly together. But they don't. Classical Newtonian mechanics doesn't see eye-to-eye with Einstein's relativity; both are sneered at by quantum mechanics. Theories highly successful in their own right seemed when compared with one another to be describing different universes. I decided that it was scientific methodology that had gone horribly wrong. I was convinced that some of the fundamental hypotheses upon which I based my enquiry were by strict analysis utterly invalid. They did not describe reality. That was a train-smash, both for me and for the progress of science, as I understood it. This book is an account of that crisis. But fear not, this is not a high-tech science report for ¿ber-geeks. It's a storybook filled with myth and adventure. It's science unplugged.

The Virtue of Heresy: Confessions of a Dissident Astronomer

AuthorHouse

"Stephen Hawking Smoked My Socks is a brave and beautiful work, in the tradition of Paton's Cry the Beloved Country or Biko's I Write What I like. This is South African intelligentsia once again aligning world opinion with a very reasonable version of Truth." -- Ian Campbell-Gillies Basically, I remained fascinated with your thesis from page one to the end of Stephen hawking Smoked My Socks. I expect you and I might well have different perspectives on some specific points - which two people wouldn't? - but the whole notion of faith as you discuss it is, in my view, completely true... Now though I've read the book and, as a practicing Christian, simply cannot see what all the fuss was about. I hope your valid comments re religions and religious faith/belief will not be allowed to detract from the very real accurate message you're conveying re science. In my view (and I may be quoted on this) you've very carefully and accurately exposed possibly the biggest flaw in modern science - a flaw which extends well beyond the bounds of astrophysics and, indeed, physics! -- theoretical physicist Dr Jeremy Dunning-Davies, University of Wales, Cardiff. Socks is filled with lavish helpings of ideas and food for thought. This is the only book that I have ever read where, after finishing, I immediately started to reread it. It is a feast. Ratcliffe's book brings to fruition decades of study of the human lot as exemplified by the manner in which scientists make progress in the face of stultifying beliefs that slow progress because of our innate need to follow the leader. It is a beautifully constructed symphony of words that mixes poetic sentences with profound insights contrasting the nature of science and belief. - Dr Gerrit Verschuur, professor of astronomy, University of Memphis

Stephen Hawking Smoked My Socks: How beliefs contaminate our opinions: an astrophysicist's perspective

Muse Harbor Publishing

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