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Title: Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science by Halton Arp ISBN: 0-9683689-0-5 Publisher: Apeiron Pub. Date: August, 1998 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.35 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The death of the Big Bang.
Comment: After reading this book, I don't think anyone with an even slightly open mind can consider the Big Bang to be an incontravertible cosmological theory anymore. If Eric Lerner's "The Big Bang Never Happened" didn't wipe out the BBT, this book sure has. Arp has made a very strong case against the concept of the expanding universe, which would result in the outright falsification of the BBT. Physically connected bodies of vastly different redshifts, quasars clustered around galactic axes, the K effect, and numerous other observations contradicting BBT assumptions are presented here. Arp also gives a first-hand look at the refereeing process (aka the "peer review" system) and how it is sometimes detrimental to science. This book is definitely a must-read. Note that this book is rather technical, so it helps to know a bit about observational astronomy and basic statistics.
However, any work, regardless of its excellence, will have its flaws. Just like Eric Lerner did not incorporate Arp's work on redshifts, Arp apparently hasn't heard of plasma cosmology. I blame this on poor communication of alternate ideas in cosmology among scientists as well as a lack of interdisciplary efforts in the community. While Arp's cosmology fits the observations better than the BBT, it relies on very similar physics that I believe are mostly inadequate. While Machian physics should be researched for quantum explanations on how quantization works, Arp's ideas on macroscopic structures are not on par with plasma cosmology's explanations. Thankfully, the ejection scenarios can be readily explained by plasma astrophysics, so Arp's observations can be reconciled with PC.
As a side note, Arp's mistreatment by many mainstream scientists has apparently led him to side with other non-mainstreamers, some of whom advocate actual pseudoscience, as is evidenced in the section entitled "Academia." He seems to be partial to certain "alternative" theories, some of which are still more or less scientific in nature, but, unlike his own, don't hold as well IMHO--examples in the section include things like the "expanding Earth" theory and cold fusion--whereas some of the other theories listed in the section are outright pseudoscience. The "Academia" section, while doing a good job exposing some of the sometimes unprofessional behavior of the peer-review system, goes too far in siding with a plethora of works that don't carry anywhere near the same amount of legitamacy as the material that is the main focus on the book. I think Arp might have done well to leave the "Academia" section out of his book, since it may turn off some people by convincing them that he is also a pseudoscientist, when he is in fact not.
Despite these problems, "Seeing Red" is still an excellent work and I recommend it to everyone who is interested in cosmology and astronomy. I would have given it 4 1/2 stars due to the "Academia" section, but since Amazon doesn't have fractional ratings, I stuck with 5 stars since it was otherwise a very enjoyable learning experience.
Rating: 5
Summary: Cosmology for the new millenium
Comment: Dr Arp's new book, like the one before it (Quasars, Redshifts and Controversies -Interstellar Media. 1988) further supports his claim that the redshifted light from distant quasars and galaxies is not the result recessional velocity in an expanding universe. Building on the evidence set out in the earlier book, Dr Arp discusses more recent evidence, from x-ray satellites, that show further examples of quasars/galaxy associations which question the validity of the currently popular 'big bang' expanding universe theory.
In the new book, Dr Arp also discusses the prejudice and institutionalised pressures that can be excerted by the science establishment in an effort to preserve established paradigms and belief systems and discourage the dissident and unorthodox view. Arp is well qualified to discuss this issue, having personally experienced an almost 'Galilian' attempt by the establishment to suppress his reasearch over the past 25 years.
SEEING RED is as much a damning report on the professional dishonesty and hypocrisy that permeates the very foundations of modern cosmology's 'Ivory Tower', as it is a catalogue of further evidence that may prove be the catalyst that affords a changed and radically new way of looking at the universe in the new millenium.
Rating: 5
Summary: Is the Inquisition alive and well?
Comment: In a way, the Inquisition is alive. Academic tenure is supposed to assure that people like Halton Arp have the right to pursue their research without being impeded or punished when they disagree with one of the prevailing dogmas. They didn't burn him alive, but they did take his telescope time (on the 200" at Mt. Palomar) away from him. Look at it this way, our perceptions of the Universe are too important to allow any paradigm to suppress dissenters. In this regard, Halton Arp does a vital service in challenging the standard model. But is he right? Are some or all observed redshifts NOT indicative of, or proportional to, the distance between us and those objects? Are the cosmological distance scales built on shakey foundations? Without books like this, and courageous scientists like Halton Arp, the question might not be asked, and the Universe, no matter its exact size, would be a much duller place.
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Title: The Big Bang Never Happened : A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe by Eric Lerner ISBN: 067974049X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Bye Bye Big Bang: Hello Reality by William C. Mitchell ISBN: 0964318814 Publisher: Cosmic Sense Books Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A Different Approach to Cosmology : From a Static Universe through the Big Bang towards Reality by Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Burbidge, Jayant V. Narlikar ISBN: 0521662230 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 17 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Dark Matter, Missing Planets and New Comets: Paradoxes Resolved, Origins Illuminated by Tom Van Flandern ISBN: 1556432682 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Catalogue of Discordant Redshift Associations by Halton C. Arp ISBN: 0968368999 Publisher: Aperion Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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