Halton Arp and His Fight For Telescope Time
| Article | |
|---|---|
| Title | Halton Arp and His Fight For Telescope Time |
| Author(s) | Lori Anne Gardi |
| Published in | Beyond Mainstream |
| Date | 2018-11-06 |
| Subject area | Physics |
| Topics | redshift, Big Bang, galaxies |
Read online | Read the full article |
Archived copy | Archived version |
| Retrieved | 2026-07-23 |
"Halton Arp and His Fight For Telescope Time" is an article by Lori Anne Gardi published on 6 November 2018 on Beyond Mainstream.
Gardi describes Halton Arp at the 200-inch Palomar telescope, drawn to the peculiar galaxies other astronomers passed over in favour of clean spirals — the objects he would catalogue and that would lead him to conclude the Big Bang was wrong. The consequence, she notes, was that he was denied the telescope time that was the thing he most valued, which tells its own story about how the field treats a dissenting observer.