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Current News:
(last updated 2008 September 12)2008/09/12
Press release summary of "Crisis in Cosmology 2" conference.
2008/08/10
The 2008 August
1 issue of the Meta
Research Bulletin is now available.
2007/10/30
"The Violent History of Mars" video with voiceover, new sound track,
and brief mention of related terrestrial mass extinction event is
available in both
full screen
(18 MB) and
small screen (6 MB) versions.
2008/06/10
"The Perihelion Advance Formula from Lorentzian Principles", available in
two formats, depending on browser. See
Gravity tab.
2007/12/21
about
"Lorentz
contraction"
2007/10/24
Members: See
cosmology conference announcement.
2007/10/11
The extension of the "pushing gravity" model into the quantum
world:
The structure of matter in the Meta Model
2007/08/31
Predictions and circumstances for the
2007 Aurigids Meteor Outburst
2006/05/01
The universal speed limit is repealed. See why in "A
primer on Lorentzian relativity".
2006/03/31
What would happen to the planets if the Sun suddenly ceased
to exist? See new
animation #6 and its explanation.
See an index of Featured Articles and General Areas below. |
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Welcome to the Meta Research web site.
Something has gone wrong in the field of astronomy. Many widely held beliefs fly in the
face of observational evidence. Theories go through such contortions to resolve
inconsistencies that the ideas can no longer be explained in simple language. Alternative
ideas are often rejected out of hand simply because they challenge the status quo. The
result... many of today's theories are unnecessarily complex.
Meta Research is dedicated to bringing some common sense back to this field. Here we
challenge ideas that have consistently failed to make successful predictions, examine new
paradigms, and advocate the ideas found to be most worthy of further consideration and
testing.
Intuitively, most of us understand that an idea's popularity is no more an appropriate
measure of its validity today than it has been at any other time in history. Yet those who
question any widely accepted theories are labeled ignorant, and if they persist are
branded cranks, charlatans, or worse. Meta Research does not claim to have all the
answers. But here at least it is safe to ask the rude questions... and to make a case for
alternative hypotheses.
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** Click Cosmology or Solar System tabs and follow sub-tabs for astronomy
topics.
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our products and services. Check out how to
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storms, or other spectacular astronomical phenomena.
** Media & Links
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astronomical animations on this site.
** About Meta
Research has information about the organization and a resume and bibliography for its
Lead Astronomer, Tom Van Flandern.
** Viewpoint has short, informative
articles about matters in the current news, often the subject of Internet rumors.
** Members Only is still
under development. The Members Only forum in our Message Board is now open.
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Featured Articles:
Solar System
2001/05/08 "Artificial
Structures on Mars" Materials from 2001/05/08 press
conference in NYC
2000/06 Exploded Planet Hypothesis -- 2000 Current status of the EPH.
2005/04/01
Planetary Explosion Mechanisms
2005/07/08,14
Deep Impact
preliminary findings (presumes you have read 2005/05/01
predictions below) &
more findings
2005/05/01
Deep Impact
predictions for the July 4 impact of a probe on a comet!
1997/06
Origin of Planets and Moons
The fission hypothesis has much to recommend it over the failing primeval
solar nebula hypothesis.
2000/08/14 Proof
of artificiality of Face on Mars
2005/06/19
Origin of Valles Marineris canyon on Mars
2002/09/28 See Solar System tab, Cydonia
sub-tab for new off-site papers of interest: "Evidence of Planetary Artifacts"
and an analysis of a controversial THEMIS image of Cydonia.
2004/08/25
Video
of a meteor storm! (2002 Leonids)
2004/08/14
Observational results for this year's predicted
Perseids outburst are now available
at the end of our
event announcement.
2004/06/11
The black drop effect
during transits of Venus. Description and physical
explanation. Transits from other planets.
2002/08/05 Absolute
GPS to Better than 1-meter 4-part article about high-precision Global
Positioning System data and its analysis.
Cosmology
2002/10/12 New
Cosmology
article by Tom Van Flandern: Physics has its Principles.
1994/09
Does the Universe Really Expand?
Evidence against the accepted interpretation of the most fundamental
observation underlying the Big Bang theory.
2002/03 Top 10 problems with the Big Bang (just the list)
2005/01/13
Top 30 problems with the
Big Bang (full article)
2004/01/18
Readers of Pushing Gravity may be interested in the
complementary article
The Meta Cycle.
Gravity & Relativity
1998/12 Speed of gravity -- What the experiments say
1st paper: Observational evidence that gravity must propagate significantly
faster than light.
2002/07
Speed of gravity -- repeal of speed limit
2nd paper: Ordinary things can travel faster than light.
2004/05/21
A tribute to the
late J.P. Vigier. (3rd item under "Gravity & Relativity")
2002/09/04 Meaning of the
"speed of gravity": a new Viewpoint article responding to the
press release claiming that the Jupiter-quasar appulse of 2002/09/08 will measure the
speed of gravity.
2003/01/08 Meta Research Press
Release: Kopeikin and "the
speed of gravity"
2005/08/02
Does gravity
have inertia? We think not. See why!
2002/07/07 Meta Research is now making its first
recommendation of a new book in three years.
Look for the Overview
of Pushing Gravity: New Perspectives on Le Sage's Theory of Gravitation (2002).
2002/03/30 Gravitational
force vs. gravitational potential: a PowerPoint presentation
illustrating the often-confusing difference between the effects of force and potential on
clocks
2000/10/21 Possible New Properties of
Gravity Explores possible properties of faster than light gravity
and reconciles ftl propagation with Relativity.
2004/05/17
What the
Global Positioning System tells us about the twin's paradox
moved to
this site for easier access; also,
2003/01/22
Does space curve? More on the physical interpretation of
relativity.
General Areas:
2002/04/28 **
Meta
Research Message Board now open** See new sub-tab on home page. [Note: New registration with
authenticated e-mail address is required to post messages.
Registration for the Message Board is not connected to other registrations.]
2004/05/26 Visit our
On-line
Store to become a Supporting Member, to subscribe
to the print edition of our quarterly Bulletin, or to purchase books or CDs we recommend.
2004/12/24
"Gravity"
CD: Everything you ever hoped to know about
gravity. See "Publications" tab.
2003/03/26
A Meta Research service:
Professional Manuscript Review
Service
2002/05/05 "Viewpoint"
articles: Pioneer Anomalous Acceleration; Phobos still
in orbit?; Meta Philosophy of Science; Meaning of the "speed of gravity".
2004/05/21
Event
Calendar
for information about meetings, lectures, expeditions, radio & TV
appearances, etc.
2003/01/08 See our Index of past Meta Research
Bulletin articles. Generally, articles from
the MRB do not appear here for a minimum of two years following publication.
2002/12/20 EME Notes
are available in our on-line search engine.
2002/12/16
Reports from our
Australian solar eclipse expedition
and earlier eclipse and meteor storm expeditions.
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