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'''Eric J. Lerner''' is a [[plasma cosmology|plasma cosmologist]] and advocates an infinitely old [[Universe]]. Lerner is currently the executive director of the Focus Fusion Society and president of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics in [[Lawrenceville, New Jersey]]. Lerner wrote a comprehensive introductory book on the subject of plasma cosmology, ''The Big Bang Never Happened'' (1991). He has studied cosmic plasma phenomena and laboratory fusion devices, especially the dense plasma focus. |
'''Eric J. Lerner''' is a [[plasma cosmology|plasma cosmologist]] and advocates an infinitely old [[Universe]]. Lerner is currently the executive director of the Focus Fusion Society and president of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics in [[Lawrenceville, New Jersey]]. Lerner wrote a comprehensive introductory book on the subject of plasma cosmology, ''The Big Bang Never Happened'' (1991). He has studied cosmic plasma phenomena and laboratory fusion devices, especially the dense plasma focus. |
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Eric J. Lerner is a plasma cosmologist and advocates an infinitely old Universe. Lerner is currently the executive director of the Focus Fusion Society and president of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Lerner wrote a comprehensive introductory book on the subject of plasma cosmology, The Big Bang Never Happened (1991). He has studied cosmic plasma phenomena and laboratory fusion devices, especially the dense plasma focus.
Lerner researched the Alfven-Klein model, which explains the redshift under a constant motion Universe with no dark matter. Lerner claims that the intergalactic medium is a strong absorber of the cosmic microwave background radiation with the absorption occurring in narrow filaments.
Lerner postulates that quasars are not related to black holes but are rather produced by a magnetic self-compression process similar to that occurring in the plasma focus. Lerner has done experimental work on the plasma focus at the University of Illinois in 1994 and at Texas A&M University in 2001.
Lerner has been published in the IEEE Spectrum, Aerospace America, Discover magazine, and IBM Research. Several of his theories are considered unorthodox and are not accepted by the majority of cosmologists, including his support for the Steady state theory over the Big Bang theory of the creation of the universe.
Eric Lerner is politically active and is regarded as very liberal. His political ideals are essentially the same as those of the green party.
See also
External links and references
- Errors in Lerner's book The Big Bang Never Happened as seen by UCLA physicist Edward Wright
- Focus Fusion Society
- Eric Lerner's website that describes why the Big Bang is wrong
- Eric Lerner's popular petition against the Big Bang
- Focus Fusion poses overwhelming competition to $10 billion Tokamak - Interview with Eric Lerner. (OSEN; Nov. 2, 2005) (also at PESN)