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Cosmic Matter and the Nonexpanding Universe
Year: 1989 Pages: 10
  • Radio Astronomer
    (Astronomy, Cosmology, Big Bang, Infinite Universe)

    Grote Reber of Bothwell, Tasmania, Australia. Reber is the principal founder of the science of radio astronomy. In Illinois in 1937, he built the world\'s first substantial radio telescope; soon after, he drew the first map of radio sources in the sky. He moved to Tasmania in 1954 because of its favorable location for observing cosmic radio sources with minimal interference from human radio sources. He was a loyal and involved member of the only organized group of dissident physicists and cosmologists in the U.S. prior to the 1990s, The Association for Pushing Gravity Research--whose members in general accepted and promoted the LeSage theory of gravity, attributing gravity to a pushing force delivered from outside the earth, probably by a gaseous medium, rather than to any pull.

    Reber has constantly and firmly opposed the big bang theory, and also any idea that red shifts indicate expansion. He has emphasized that Edwin Hubble never committed himself to any such explanation for the red shifts he discovered. (Interestingly, Reber\'s mother, then known as Miss Grote, was Hubble\'s 7th-grade teacher, and did much to encourage his scholarly ambitions.)

    Reber\'s alternative explanation for red shift, developed and published in the late 1960s simultaneously with a similar explanation by NPA member John Kierein, is to attribute it to loss of energy of photons experienced in Compton-type collisions with electrons in space, which are evidently part of a gaseous medium causing the well-known 2.7-degree Kelvin cosmic background radiation. The existence of this radiation was discovered by Reber slightly earlier than by Penzias and Wilson, and he researched it for a much longer time than they did, before publishing. Because of his delay, and because he published obscurely and lacked an active PR campaign on his behalf, they were the ones who received the Nobel Prize.

    See his article \"Cosmic Static at 144 meters wavelength,\" Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol. 285 (Jan. 1968), pp. 1-12--one of a great many articles and reports he authored. His biography appears in the Micropaedia section of the Encyclopaedia Britannica . He has read papers at three...

  • Professor of Physics
    (Newtonian Physics, Big Bang, Redshift)
    From 1990 to 1999, Paul Marmet was a Visiting Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Ottawa.  He was a Senior Research Officer at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics of the National Research Council of Canada, in Ottawa, from 1983 to 1990.   From 1962 to 1983, he was a Professor of Physics and after 1967 the director of the laboratory for Atomic and Molecular Physics at Laval University in Qu?bec City, the same place he receive both his BS and PhD in Physics.

    A past president of the Canadian Association of Physicists (1981-1982), he also served as a member of the executive committee of the Atomic Energy Control Board of Canada from 1979 to 1984.  Marmet was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (F.R.S.C) in 1973 and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1981.  The Order of Canada is the highest decoration bestowed by the Canadian government.  An acknowledged expert in the field of Electron Spectroscopy, he authored more than 100 papers on the subject.

    MARMET, Paul Ph.D., F.R.S.C., O.C. In hospital, on his 73rd birthday, on Friday, May 20, 2005. Dearly beloved husband of Jacqueline Cote. Loving father  ....   More - Ottawa Citizen, 5/21/2005.

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