Eric Lerner
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Eric J. Lerner is a plasma cosmologist and advocates an infinitely old Universe. Lerner is currently the executive director of the Focus Fusion Society and president of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics in Lawrenceville, NJ. Lerner wrote a comprehensive introductory book on the subject of plasma cosmology, "The Big Bang Never Happened" (1991). He has studied cosmic plasma phenomena and laboratory fusion devices, especially the dense plasma focus.
Lerner researched the Alfven-Klein model, which explains the redshift under a constant motion Universe with no dark matter. Lerner claims that the intergalactic medium is a strong absorber of the cosmic microwave background radiation with the absorption occuring in narrow filaments.
Lerner postulates that quasars are not related to black holes but are rather produced by a magnetic self-compression process similar to that occurring in the plasma focus. Lerner has done experimental work on the plasma focus at the University of Illinois in 1994 and at Texas A&M University in 2001.
Lerner has been published in the IEEE Spectrum, Aerospace America, Discover magzine, and IBM Research.
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External links and references
- Focus Fusion Society (http://www.focusfusion.org/we.html)