Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science

The whole arena of astronomy is being overturned by new discoveries, especially the Webb telescope. There was no big-bang. There are no black holes. There is no dark matter or dark energy. The electro-magnetism of the universe has been totally overlooked. As usual, there is tremendous resistance from established scientists who have out-of-date books to sell. This book is another important exposure of where the establishment was wrong. It goes into excellent detail explaining each aspect of the analysis and discovery. It explores red shift as a matter of age and the concept of matter changing size as it ages. It's an important addition to our new understanding of what's out there.

As recently as the the era of Galileo in the 17th century, the dominant human institution was the Roman Catholic Church. Today, 400 years later, the world has changed greatly, yet we humans are very much the same. Human nature has changed little, if at all. The contemporary Church, of course, is a dead or dying echo of its former self. The dominant institution today is the scientific establishment: now manned by an elite priesthood of technocrats, most of them specialists who know more and more about less and less. World class maverick astronomer Halton Arp, who spent a career studying emerging galaxies in the deep ranges of space, compares the lot of them to the medieval Church. Arp has it exactly right. Oh ecce homo: The more things change...Our biggest problem today is a science establishment that has made a number of erroneous fundamental assumptions about the natural order, assumptions that are comparable to the religious doctrines of the medieval Church. The public is generally unaware of these assumptions. They are so much a part of the fabric of science itself as to be all but invisible even to scientists!Arp deconstructs one of these in this amazing book: the red shift. Arp piles up case on case, example after example, until the sheer weight of evidence becomes overwhelming. Yet Arp was rewarded for his trouble by having his telescope taken away!Obviously the creme de la creme of modern science, the Big Bang astronomers, are so full of their own mathematical hubris and grand theory of all and everything that they wouldn't know how to interpret raw observational data if it slapped them cold in the face. It's one thing to examine a world of data and arrive at a hypothesis that explains the data. It's another to treat assumptions as if they were conclusions, meanwhile, tossing out as junk all of the anomalous material that didn't know it was supposed to fit the dominant Big Bang theory. Sad to say, this is the condition of astronomy, today.All of which matters greatly because in 2005 we are staring down the barrel of peak oil, now just over the horizon and bearing down on us harder every day. The likelihood looms of a world economic meltdown. As the drama unfolds across the world stage the US colossus seems hell-bent to hasten and deepen the crisis by intervening militarily to protect America's privileged access to and sacrosanct control over the oil markets.In a word: we face an energy crunch, and the growing likelihood of regional and world war fought for oil. We need a science that can help us out of this mess. And the picture one gets from Seeing Red is not encouraging. Credit Halton Arp for telling it like it is. This is an extremeing well written book -- though not an easy read. It took me 2 months to get through it, but it was well worth the effort.If Arp is right, our current science model is NOT going to be able to deliver an abundant and clean energy alternative. These guys don't even know which end of a telescope is up. Obviously, we need a paradigm shift in science! Bravo to Arp for sounding the alarm and asking the appropriate questions!

I've read this book only once and need to read it again, with a more critical eye (critical in terms of 'critical thinking', not 'an eye to criticize'). A professional, in my view, needs to read this book for the evidence and follow it up with the references, and not read it for the theory. For Arp is first and foremost an observational astronomer.It's interesting, to me, that most professionals dismiss Arp because of his theory, while ignoring the body of his observations. It's as if to say, "His theory doesn't make sense, therefore his observations aren't worth considering". This is putting the cart before the horse. As any modern physicist will adamantly assert (and Carl Sagan himself stresses this emphatically and repeatedly in his classic book and film series, "Cosmos"), "If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science." [Feynman].As he describes in this book, Arp was originally caught in a classic 'bait and switch'. His original paper, submitted for peer review decades ago, reported his observations that high redshift quasars were preferentially associated with nearby low redshift galaxies. It was rejected by the reviewer because it didn't fit with existing theory, and Arp had not offered in his paper any explanation as to how these observations could possibly be true. So, in response to the reviewer's request, Arp devised some theory to explain his observations -- and the paper was again rejected because, in the eye of the reviewer, the theory didn't make sense. Since then Arp has continued both his observations, as best he could (having been denied telescope time), and development of his ideas and theories. But his ideas are observation-driven (something which is perfectly legitimate for any scientist), and the book should be read first and foremost for the catalogue of his observations and relevant observations by others.In summary this is an impressive book by an observational astronomer who has courageously -- or perhaps naively -- reported and continued to document anomolous associations of quasars with nearby galaxies. Considering Arp's ability and expertise, the onus is on the cosmologist to firstly ascertain -- through statistical analysis or otherwise -- whether there is, in fact, such an association, and secondly to explain this apparent association if in fact the statistics bear Arp out.

1st edn 1998, 2017 print on demand by Amazon.Astronomer theorists do not follow the rules of empirical investigations followed by most other sciences (at least they claim this in public) and are too concerned with creation myths. Halton Arp has tried to publish his results in journals which have censored him so he has published summaries of them in this book.Essentially stellar red shifts in atomic spectra wavelengths compared with those observed on Earth are not caused by recession speeds being proportional to distance. La Violette  Subquantum Kinetics: A Systems Approach to Physics & Cosmology  has shown that Hubbles Law is not to do with distance as 4 independent data sets give a much closer fit (without lots of correction parameters) to the previous theory of tired light. There are more recent solutions of General Relativity which do not mandate the curving of space. Consequently there could be no Big Bang creation event. Galaxies can produce matter and eject them in a series of QSOs with very high intrinsic red shifts (not related to distance as they are next to their parent galaxies). The speeds are local and not related to an expanding universe. QSOs are ejected in pairs in opposite directions to conserve momentum.Then these red shifts are quantized giving evidence of mass changes of fundamental particles which conform to new solutions of GR. I would recommend you read this book for the evidence of mass creation and then La Violette's book where he developes the theory of mass creation and ejection of matter from galactic cores and the evidence of these blasts found in the Earth's ice cores and tree rings. More information can be found on Laviolette's extensive web site at http:\\etheric.com and his blog at http:\\starburst.found.orgIn addition the mean orbital speeds of the planets are also quantized at a finer scale of 144 km s-1 /(an integer) which for Earth is 5.Arp gives Karlsson's law (1971) where he claims that for the n-th red shift z sub n then (1+z sub n)/(1+ z sub 0) = 1.23^n. Finer quantization is in multiples of 72 km s-1. Using Arp's data I found a better fit in the range 0.05<z<3 that (1+z sub n)/(1+z sub 0) = 1.2098545^n where n = 13/15,1,2,...7 where z=0.06 was not seen but I found peaks at 0.085+-0.004 and 0.055+-0.005Gravitational lenses are generally bogus and quasars are not incidental background objects of fantastic luminosities which should burn out relatively quickly at absolute magnitudes up to -23. Subquantum Kinetics: A Systems Approach to Physics & Cosmology

This is a difficult book to rate. Arp's prose is not the most exciting but it gets the job done. The weight of evidence against the current cosmology (red shift) is impressive, but that evidence will be technical and daunting to some. Arp regularly documents the kickbacks and conflicts he received during a long career and the way the system is loaded towards the orthodoxy. As theorists titrate in ever more artefacts to maintain the current theory (dark matter, dark energy, dark flow), without any empirical backing, this is a first rate example of a controversy in science, from the maverick's point of view.

Move over ideology. Real science is exciting and fun, especially when the requirement to agree with the prevailing dogmas is given short shrift. A great book with profound implications, most notably in regard to the Big Bang religion. Arp is a true pioneer who has bounced back after being shunned and blacklisted by some ideologues.

Significant evidence of how quasars are ejected out of galaxies. Every school should have his book and encourage their science students to read it.

Absolutely superb. This is what real science - as opposed to the current deluge of unhinged fanciful speculation in mainstream cosmology - is all about. Halton Arp will one day, in a better world, be accorded the title of 'greatest astronomer of the 20th century'. Detailing the patent bilateral ejection of high redshift objects from older, active, low redshift galaxies (particularly Seyferts), Arp extends the analysis to an entirely new cosmological paradigm. Full of surprises and new ideas....but most of all, full of *real* observational science. Though a tad more technical than your average 'lay' read (the book was intended as a 'magnum opus' of Arp's lifetime research), it is, nonetheless, still quite accessible for those with just a basic background in astronomy. Highly recommended.