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ACG News The Alternative Cosmology Group Newsletter
The Alternative
Cosmology Group newsletter is a review of
recently published astrophysics. It is edited by
Hilton Ratcliffe, and appears monthly on the ACG
website
www.cosmology.info.
ACG News - October
2008
This is the first newsletter of the post-CCC2
epoch, and was consequently delayed while we
attended to the conference. We have had our
hands full over the past several months ...
ACG News -
December 2008
This year-end edition is full to overflowing
with new results. In this newsletter, we
concentrate on observation and on results
outside the mainstream, but sometimes we do add
...
ACG News -
January 2009 On January
9, 2009, ACG stalwart and eminent astronomer Dr
Tom Van Flandern passed away shortly after being
diagnosed with cancer...
ACG News -
February 2009
Contemporary cosmology has developed
methodological latitude that surpasses the
boundaries of physical science, and allowed what
scientists of a bygone era might have called
‘bad habits”...
ACG News -
March 2009 The
fundamental property of Big Bang Theory in all
its incarnations is that of universal expansion,
especially the LCDM model. LCDM does not address
thorny issues like creation ex nihilo...
ACG News -
April 2009
The conventional understanding of thermodynamics
suggests that entropy is the irresistible
destiny of any physical system. Entropy is
defined conceptually...
ACG News -
May 2009 In a
departure from normal practice, we pre-empt the
publication of a formal paper by referring to a
report carried in the media about the THEMIS
discovery of tornado-like power generators...
ACG News -
June 2009 This month,
we’ve chosen to highlight a paper that is
causing a stir in cosmology. Serious doubt is
cast upon the validity of the entire body of
WMAP analysis...
The ACG News -
July 2009 This newsletter has always followed the
protocol of using arXiv as the standard
reference set for currently published results in
astrophysics and related fields. There is little
choice in the matter...
The ACG News -
August 2009
This month we make our first reference to a
viXra paper. A quick review of the papers listed
there reveals two things: Firstly, there has
been an amazing growth in support for the site
...
The ACG News -
September 2009
Despite the great
sophistication of modern mathematical modeling,
sometimes observations simply cannot be
explained in terms of the LCDM paradigm, and
have to be stored away with the label
“anomaly”...
The ACG News -
October 2009
Tom Andrews presented a
paper at the 1st Crisis in Cosmology
Conference in 2005, and although he attended
CCC2, did not have these latest results ready in
time for presentation...
The ACG News -
November 2009
Thanks are due to Dr Richard Lewis for pointing
out an error in my lead-in to the paper by Joel
Primack Cosmology: small scale issues
revisited in the last newsletter. Dr
Lewis wrote, “I am surprised...
The ACG News -
December 2009
My face is red! In last month’s
editorial, I declared, “Some of us noted with
a measure of despondency that string theorist Dr
Brian Greene has filled...
The ACG News -
January 2010 We greatly appreciate
commentary on the following paper in response to
a preview mailing. General reaction to Gezari’s
experimental...
The ACG News -
February 2010
With great sadness and sense of loss we announce
the passing on 26th January 2010 of a
stalwart in non-aligned astrophysics and
astrochemistry, Professor Geoffrey Burbidge.
This comes barely a year ...
"The further we look, the bigger things are. There is
an incredible diversity of structures in space, and I
was drawn to conclude that the cosmos is both infinite
and highly organised. And, to my human eye, achingly
beautiful." Hilton Ratcliffe
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