Adrian Bjornson
Adrian Bjornson | |
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| Known for | Advocacy of the Yilmaz theory of gravitation and a steady, infinite ("old") universe |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cosmology, Gravitation |
Adrian Bjornson is an author who writes on alternative cosmology and gravitation, best known for promoting Huseyin Yilmaz's theory of gravitation as an alternative to Einstein's general relativity. They are listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.
Ideas
Bjornson argues that modern astronomy has drifted into what they describe as a "mythological confusion," and advocates the gravitational theory of Huseyin Yilmaz, which in their presentation removes the need for black holes, the Big Bang, singularities, dark energy and dark matter. Applying the Yilmaz theory to cosmology, Bjornson postulates a universe with a constant average density of matter that extends to infinity and does not change with time, yielding a steady, "old" universe model rather than an expanding Big Bang cosmology.
These views lie well outside the scientific mainstream, in which general relativity and the Big Bang model remain the accepted framework. Bjornson set out this work in the book A Universe That We Can Believe (Addison Press, Woburn, Massachusetts, 2000) and on the website olduniverse.com ("Yilmaz Refinement of Einstein Theory").