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  2. Fred Hoyle - Wikipedia

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    Sir Fred Hoyle (24 June 1915 ... their scepticism to find the Hoyle state in carbon-12, from which a full theory of ... Hoyle presented Evolution from Space for the ...

  3. Junkyard tornado - Wikipedia

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    The junkyard tornado, sometimes known as Hoyle's fallacy, is a fallacious argument formulated by Fred Hoyle against Earth-based abiogenesis and in favor of panspermia.The junkyard tornado argument has been taken out of its original context by theists to argue for intelligent design, and has since become a mainstay in the rejection of evolution by religious groups, even though Fred Hoyle ...

  4. Diseases from Space - Wikipedia

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    Diseases from Space is a book published in 1979 that was authored by astronomers Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, where they propose that many of the most common diseases which afflict humanity, such as influenza, the common cold and whooping cough, have their origins in extraterrestrial sources.

  5. Panspermia - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, Hoyle and Wickramasinghe concluded that the evolution of life requires a large increase in genetic information and diversity, which might have resulted from the influx of viral material from space via comets. [20] Hoyle reported (in a lecture at Oxford on January 16, 1978) a pattern of coincidence between the arrival of major ...

  6. Big Bang - Wikipedia

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    English astronomer Fred Hoyle is credited with coining the term "Big Bang" during a talk for a March 1949 BBC Radio broadcast, [40] saying: "These theories were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past." [41] [42] However, it did not catch on until the 1970s ...

  7. Anthropic principle - Wikipedia

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    Fred Hoyle may have invoked anthropic reasoning to predict an astrophysical phenomenon. He is said to have reasoned, from the prevalence on Earth of life forms whose chemistry was based on carbon-12 nuclei, that there must be an undiscovered resonance in the carbon-12 nucleus facilitating its synthesis in stellar interiors via the triple-alpha ...

  8. Steady-state model - Wikipedia

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    E.g., the universe has no beginning and no end. This required that matter be continually created in order to keep the universe's density from decreasing. Influential papers on the topic of a steady-state cosmology were published by Hermann Bondi, Thomas Gold, and Fred Hoyle in 1948.

  9. Hoyle–Narlikar theory of gravity - Wikipedia

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    Unlike the standard cosmological model, the quasi steady state hypothesis implies the universe is eternal.According to Narlikar, multiple mini bangs would occur at the center of quasars, with various creation fields (or C-field) continuously generating matter out of empty space due to local concentration of negative energy that would also prevent violation of conservation laws, in order to ...