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> Lerner received a BA in physics from Columbia University[7] and started as a graduate student in physics at the University of Maryland, but left after a year
by DyslexicAtheist 6y ago
> Lerner received a BA in physics from Columbia University[7] and started as a graduate student in physics at the University of Maryland, but left after a year due to his dissatisfaction with the mathematical rather than experimental approach there.[8][9] He then pursued a career in popular science writing.
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> He wrote the 1991 book The Big Bang Never Happened, which advocates Hannes Alfvén's plasma cosmology instead of the Big Bang theory. He is founder, president, and chief scientist of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, Inc.
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lerner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lerner
he couldn't grok the Math and so he took to writing and scientific-populism.
- Google234 6y agoWhile he does seem like tbe crackpot-type, your last point may not be fair. I don’t think you can get through a undergrad physics education without being able to handle a decent amount of math. It sounds like it was just unfortunate he couldn’t find a experimental physics group as a grad student. I am surprised about this though, while I don’t know how it was back then, UM has an amazing experimental physics program now.