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2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Exposing Scientific Dogmatism and Scholasticism Jun 10, 2008
This book is written very lucidly and rather entertainingly (if rather repetitively) so that any non-scientist can understand the basic arguments without needing to understand all the mathematics. The author first tells the story of how the origins of the Big Bang - expanding universe hypothesis in a historical, popular documentary style with amusing anecdotes about the characters involved etc. He then goes on to show that, contrary to the received wisdom, the so-called Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)Radiation, Redshifts of galaxies (including the recent Supernovae Ia 'standard candle' data indicating accelerating expansion)and the supposed relativistic time dilation of standard events in distant galaxies do not provide incontrovertible evidence for the Big Bang hypothesis. Furthermore the Big Bang hypothesis has constantly had to introduce ad hoc 'epicyclic' additions like Inflation with unproven scalar fields and now Dark Matter or Dark Energy to try to sustain it. The whole idea of all the matter in the universe arising from an infinitesimal point with no real explanation beyond this always smacked of unbelievability. As Smolin shows in The Trouble with Physics in regard to Superstrings, dogmatism and scholasticism are rife in mainstream theoretical physics, censoring and ostracizing critics as heretics.
On the contrary, as Hubble himself recognized after Zwicky pointed out the Tired Light hypothesis, a Redshift is just that, a Redshift in the incoming Light, and such a shift does not necessarily correlate with a Doppler Shift effect of a rapidly receding galaxy. The actual evidence and recent evidence about the clumpiness of the CMB being aligned with the Milky Way (rather than early universe galactic seeds), quantised redshifts, hugely redshifted quasars in not very distant galaxies etc. all support the Tired Light hypothesis in which photons interact with intergalactic plasma, losing frequency (=redshifted)to electrons which recoil and then emit low energy photons which actually create the CMB.
Ashmore has found by standardizing units that the measured value of the Hubble Constant is actually = hr/m of the Electron (i.e. the amount of electron in each unit cubic metre of space) and is thus the Electron in disguise. As the Redshift etc. actually arises from the activity of electrons this implies that the Big Bangers are just ending up with what they tacitly started from, the properties of the Electron.
I actually ordered Ashmore's book and Halton Arp's 'Seeing Red' after reading a new book by US physicist Milo Wolff called Schroedinger's Universe which also denies the truth of the Big Bang hypothesis. Wolff presents his remarkable new Wave Structure of Matter model of the Electron which seems to show how previously unexplained basic properties of matter, the so-called Laws of Nature and the Dirac large number ratios relating the electron and proton to the Hubble Universe. The link is that Wolff's model (using Mach's Principle and holonomy) involves the Hubble Universe (Light Horizon or knowable universe) constituting the limit from which incoming Huygen's Construction wavefronts converge to create each 'particle'-like wave centre phenomenon which we call the electron. The incoming wavefronts then 'spin around' as it were and diverge as spherical scalar waves. Thus each 'particle' is in fact the centre of its own 'universe' in an infinite universe (see my Amazon review for a full explanation. Thus I am pleased to see that my checking of the assertions of Wolff in Ashmore's work led not only to confirmation of the incredibly tenuous status of the Big Bang but also a fascinating new revelation that the Electron is intimately linked to the Hubble Universe (Light Horizon of the knowable universe).
Sutapas Bhattacharya
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
A triumph of elegant easoning Jun 03, 2008
Read the epilogue entitled `Dialog on the Two Chief Cosmological Models' if you want a well-crafted evenhanded summary that covers all points of contention between Ashmore's theory and the big bang theory. He proposes an alternative theory that meets every evidential test. Ashmore's strongest point is his theory's ability to predict the observed variation of redshift, z, as a function of distance, d, which big bang proponents cannot do. You will miss lots of interesting anecdotes about the founders of modern physics and cosmology by not reading the entire book as Ashmore guides you through the elegantly basic mathematics and up-to-date experimental evidence upon which he built his theory. His style accommodates interested nonspecialists as well as seasoned cosmologists.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
An outstanding critic of the BB, lucid in explanation, great in it's historical review, and a delight to read. Mar 04, 2008
Once you start to read this book you shall be very reluctant to put it down. Professor Ashmore's book will be a very easy read regardless of ones technical background, and overall a delight to read.
The mathematics and technical dicussions are presented in a straight forward manner easily understood. In addition, the technical aspects of the physics are interlaced with interesting historical comments, and the author's amusing and incisive parenthetical comments; the "dialogue" presented at the end of the book is particularly interesting.
I do not think the reader of this book shall find a more conise and easily understood explanation for the critic of the Big Bang Theory, along with a prognosis of where should we go from here!
3 of 27 found the following review helpful:
 Horrendous piece of claptrap Feb 23, 2007
Lyndon Ashmore is a charlatan and an amateur when it comes to evaluating the ideas of modern science. His book is full of errors and ignores the modern scientific discoveries that have made the Big Bang paradigm such a successful framework. Don't waste your money or time on this.
14 of 19 found the following review helpful:
Well Done Jan 01, 2007
Not only a compelling case, but a great read. Ashmore provides entertaining bios anectdotes and info on his way to explaining where the Big Bang movement came from and why the evidence doesn't support it. He provides a simpler, better, more feasible explanation for redshift and the cmb and does so in language any high school grad can easily understand.
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