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"The Alternative Cosmology Group (ACG) was initiated with the Open Letter on Cosmology written to the scientific community and published in New Scientist, May 22, 2004. The letter points to the fundamental problems of the Big Bang theory, and to the unjustified limiting of cosmological funding to work within the Big Bang framework. The epicyclic character of the theory, piling ad-hoc hypothesis upon hypothesis, its incompleteness and the appearance of a singularity in the big bang universe beginning require consideration of alternatives."

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"The anisotropy of the cosmic background radiation, the existence of very large-scale structures, the cosmic anisotropy to electromagnetic wave propagation are among many observations that contradict Big Bang expectations. At the same time, non-Big Bang alternatives have increasingly shown promise to coherently explain the observations and to predict new phenomena. We believe, therefore, that a shift in effort in cosmology to these alternatives is essential if the field is to advance."

"The SIS was formed in 1974 to consider the role global cosmic catastrophes may have played in our history, and even recorded by cultures worldwide in their oral and written ancient traditions.

We also consider the effect catastrophes have on other disciplines, such as biology, cosmology, geology, psychology, archaeoastronomy, astrophysics, linguistics, and other areas such as religion.

Catastrophism also demands that there should be corroboration between disciplines, making catastrophism truly interdisciplinary and inclusive."

"This plasma science and technology web site has been prepared as a service for the general public as well as for the educational and research communities. Our purpose is to communicate the fascination of plasma science, the vast range of its applications, and its profound implications for 21st century science and technology as well as for daily life. This web site is dedicated to the plasma sciences community worldwide and has no obligation or necessary linkage to any particular company, organization, or country."

"Quantavolution theory maintains that the world from its beginnings, including the world of life and humanity, has changed largely by quantum leaps, rather than by tiny incre-ments over great stretches of time. The over two million words of this collection of works by the author and collaborators present the full range of ideas and phenomena that pertain to this theory. It may be well to warn promptly against claiming any relationship to quantum field theory in physics, although dire consequences to gravitation concepts may inhere, because of the seeming all-sufficiency of new electromagnetic theory. Such a global change of perspective requires a search for new evidence, a reformulation of old evidence, a reconsideration of anomalies, changes in meanings of words and phrases, explora-tions of etymologies of words and concepts, and a reexamination of assumptions, often when they are so accepted as to be trite and so trite as to be ignored -- removed, indeed, from our very cognitive structures.

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The day may not be far off when a new philosopher will draw upon the applicable contributions of such thinkers and the fast-growing body of quantavolutionary literature to produce a new philosophy of science."

"Communicating information on galaxies, quasars and cosmology which ordinarily would not be available in professional journals or the public media."

"Halton C. Arp received his Bachelors degree from Harvard College in 1949 and his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in 1953, both cum laude. He is a professional astronomer who, earlier in his career, conducted Edwin Hubble's nova search in M31. He has earned the Helen B.Warner prize, the Newcomb Cleveland award and the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award. For 28 years he was staff astronomer at the Mt. Palomar and Mt. Wilson observatories. While there, he produced his well known catalog of "Peculiar Galaxies" that are disturbed or irregular in appearance.

Arp discovered, from photographs and spectra with the big telescopes, that many pairs of quasars (quasi-stellar objects) which have extremely high redshift z values (and are therefore thought to be receding from us very rapidly - and thus must be located at a great distance from us) are physically connected to galaxies that have low redshift and are known to be relatively close by. Because of Arp's observations, the assumption that high red shift objects have to be very far away - on which the Big Bang theory and all of "accepted cosmology" is based - has to be fundamentally reexamined.!"

"In 1991, my book, the Big Bang Never Happened(Vintage), presented evidence that the Big Bang theory was contradicted by observations and that another approach, plasma cosmology, which hypothesized a universe without begin or end, far better explained what we know of the cosmos. The book set off a considerable debate. Since then, observations have only further confirmed these conclusions, although the Big Bang remains by far the most widely accepted theory of cosmology.

This website provides an update on the evidence and the debate over the Big Bang, including the latest technical review  and a reply to a widely- circulated criticism  as well as a technical reading list, a report on a recent workshop  and links to other relevant sites, including one that described my own work on fusion power, which is closely linked to my work in cosmology.

"The Immanuel Velikovsky Encyclopedia is about the controversial author, Immanuel Velikovsky, and the people and controversy that has resulted from his works. It does not set out to judge whether Velikovsky and his critics were right or wrong, but to document with sources, who said what, and why, and where, and when. There is no doubt that some scientists have labeled some of Velikovsky's work, pseudoscience or worse, but also others who have acknowledged that Velikovsky made predictions that have turned out to be correct."

"Well into the late 1800s, people were fairly content to think of electricity and magnetism as two different things. Today, electric fields and magnetic fields are treated as separate entities, when in fact that line of thinking is remnants of when electricity and magnetism were thought to be fundamentally different.

The following is an explanation of magnetic fields from the perspective of connected monopolar, equi-charged bodies - in other words, equally charged electric field sources. "

"1) Evidence that a common cause of  magnetism and gravity is a single force, the electrostatic force due to charge polarization inside electrons and atomic nuclei oriented by electric fields and the angular momentum, eg, rotation, orbital movement etc. of astronomical bodies.

2) Evidence that light and all em radiation is the cumulative effect of instantaneous forces at a distance  at least over terrestrial distances.  Interpretations of Bradley's observation of stellar aberration, Romer's observations of Jupiter's moons, and recent NASA data are shown to allow the possibility that light speed delay does not extrapolate beyond a second and that the cumulative effect explanation of em radiation may apply to astronomical distances as well."

"The Coalition for Plasma Science is a group of institutions, organizations, and companies joining forces to increase awareness and understanding of plasma science and its many applications and benefits for society. We hope that by visiting this Web site you learn some new things about plasmas in our world, in our society, and in our economy.

The plasmas of interest here are the electrically charged gases, or "ionized" gases, that are found in nature as well as in numerous devices. In addition to surrounding you in the universe, plasmas play key roles in bringing you sunlight outdoors during the daytime, street light at night, fluorescent light in your offices, computer chips in your computers, treated and coated surfaces of more important objects in your life than you might imagine (including hardened artificial joints you might have in your body and high temperature turbine blade coatings for the jets you fly in), flat panel displays for your TV, gas lasers, the welded joints that keep buildings from falling apart, and radio transmission around the world. Among the important applications expected in the future are the production of electrical energy from nuclear fusion, environmental cleanup, and space ship propulsion for interplanetary flights.

At the present time when someone encounters the term "plasma" he or she often thinks of blood plasma; the ionized-gas type has to be explained. The Coalition for Plasma Science is working to change this situation. We are working to make the ionized-gas plasma the type that is most familiar to people. If you stumbled on this site looking for information about blood plasma, you're in the wrong place, but please stay a while and learn something about the other type of plasma."

"There has been an ongoing search for impact sites on the surface of the earth for as long as humanity has been aware that such events happen. The most recent mass extinction impact event happened on the North American continent a mere instant ago on the geologic time scale. But, on the human time scale it is only remembered in our most ancient of legends. Legends so old, and so often re-told they have become discounted as fantastical myths.

Much knowledge was lost, or forgotten in the endless re-telling. The most important of which was the form that comet "impact" sites take here on earth. And how large clusters of comet fragments, accompanied by tremendous electric plasma events reacted with the Earth’s atmosphere, and geology. And in fact, the knowledge wasn’t lost. It was simply disregarded as too fantastic to be true."

"Since the unfortunate demise of the Space Shuttle Columbia on 1 February 2003, there has been much public debate particularly on various internet sites and forums, over the cause of the disaster, despite the release of the official report of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) in August of 2003.

Most of this debate has centred on two main questions.

• Did damage caused by a foam strike on launch cause the disaster?
   
• Did an electical discharge event now known as "megalightning" occur in the upper atmosphere upon reentry contributing to the demise of the shuttle?

The suggestion of the second of these options was motivated by a curious photograph taken by an amateur astronomer during the orbiter's reentry as reported in the San Francisco Chronicle dated Wednesday 5 February, 2003.

It is not the intention of this paper to offer 'the truth' or a 'better theory' than other commentators, but to compare some of the published materials in the hope of coming to a better understanding thereof."