The blog of Hilton Ratcliffe

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 [...]

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, [...]