The blog of Hilton Ratcliffe

To understand cosmic cycles, study explosions. The moment a star dies in a supernova, an inexorable tide of creation goes forth, and it is a beautiful thing to behold. It represents cosmic nativity. A supernova (SN, plural SNe) takes a fraction of a second to explode, yet its brilliance outshines entire galaxies, and the nebula [...]

Is the Universe expanding? It would appear not. What do we see? We do not see, let alone measure, large objects systematically moving away from all other large objects. On the contrary, it would seem to be quite the opposite, at least in the case of colliding spiral galaxies. Every observable large scale system is [...]

HEADLINE: AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT WITHDRAWS FUNDING FOR THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER.

HEADLINE: AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT REINSTATES FUNDING FOR LHC.
 From: Stephen J Crothers, Associate Editor, Progress in Physics.
 Dear Concerned Scientists and Thinkers,
 The Austrian Bundeskanzler (Federal Chancellor), Werner Faymann, has reversed the decision of Austria’s Minister for Science, Johannes Hahn, and committed Austria to further funding of the LHC [...]

From chapter 3 of the third edition of The Virtue of Heresy:
 The tidal wave caused jointly by Max Planck’s 1900 quantum hypothesis and Einstein’s relativity swept the scientific world, and by 1930, physics was standing on its head. As professor of mathematics at the University of Leningrad, Alexander Friedmann enthusiastically promoted these ideas, and his [...]

The late Tom Van Flandern once said, “If you want to find evidence refuting Big Bang Theory, just point a telescope at the sky!”
Two observational stanchions support contemporary cosmology: Hubble redshift and microwave background radiation. The first is used to describe the systematic expansion of the Universe, and the second is put forward as [...]

What is this blog about? Let me state some assumptions that I make, and you are welcome to comment.
1. The Universe is infinite in both space and time.
2. Space is 3D Euclidean. No other space exists besides that.
3. A vacuum does not exist.
4. The Universe is the product of pre-emptive design.
5. The speed of light, [...]

Hi Wanderers,
I am writing two books simultaneously, much to the chagrin of my collaborators and publishers. Book two, “The Static Universe - A Challenge to Scientific Prejudice”, a fairly technical, scholarly work with Sir Patrick Moore, is nearly complete, and I intend taking the manuscript and a bottle of tranquilisers to Sir Patrick’s home in Selsey, [...]

Is Cosmology fact or fiction, science or fairy tale? Do we need it? is it good for us? Does it have any useful purpose? Should we be confined to a Standard Model?