1980 film "The Final Countdown" DVD video:
US Navy chief petty officer: It's a code.
US Navy commander Dan Thurman - USS Nimitz CVN 68 executive officer: Can you break it, Chief?
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Stargate: The Movie (1994)
DANIEL
The eye of Ra. It's the Egyptian sun god. They think he sent us here.
O'NEIL
Yeah, I wonder what could've given them that idea?
[He pointedly fingers Daniel's pendant with the same symbol. Daniel smiles, amazed.]
DANIEL
Ra.
[He points at the large disk as Kasuf looks up warily.]
DANIEL
Ra?
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=exorcist-the
Springfield! Springfield!
Exorcist, The (1973)
We're pretty comfortable up there...
...compared to the Gemini and Mercury
programs, which were tight for space.
We've got about 210 cubic feet,
so we can move around.
If you ever go up there again,
will you take me along?
What for?
First missionary on Mars!
Tell me, was it public relations you did
for the Gestapo or community relations?
I'm Swiss!
Yes, of course.
And you never went bowling
with Goebbels, either, I suppose.
Nazi bastard!
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From 3/28/1949 ( Fred Hoyle during BBC "Third Programme" invents the term "Big Bang" ) To 7/2/2007 is 21280 days
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From 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 7/2/2007 is 3878 days
3878 = 1939 + 1939
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/2/2007 is 15217 days
From 6/24/1954 ( premiere US film "The Caine Mutiny" ) To 7/2/2007 is 19366 days
19366 = 9683 + 9683
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13614 = 6807 + 6807
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http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070702-3.html
THE WHITE HOUSE [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
July 2, 2007
Statement by the President on Executive Clemency for Lewis Libby
The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today rejected Lewis Libby's request to remain free on bail while pursuing his appeals for the serious convictions of perjury and obstruction of justice. As a result, Mr. Libby will be required to turn himself over to the Bureau of Prisons to begin serving his prison sentence.
I have said throughout this process that it would not be appropriate to comment or intervene in this case until Mr. Libby's appeals have been exhausted. But with the denial of bail being upheld and incarceration imminent, I believe it is now important to react to that decision.
From the very beginning of the investigation into the leaking of Valerie Plame's name, I made it clear to the White House staff and anyone serving in my administration that I expected full cooperation with the Justice Department. Dozens of White House staff and administration officials dutifully cooperated.
After the investigation was under way, the Justice Department appointed United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Patrick Fitzgerald as a Special Counsel in charge of the case. Mr. Fitzgerald is a highly qualified, professional prosecutor who carried out his responsibilities as charged.
This case has generated significant commentary and debate. Critics of the investigation have argued that a special counsel should not have been appointed, nor should the investigation have been pursued after the Justice Department learned who leaked Ms. Plame's name to columnist Robert Novak. Furthermore, the critics point out that neither Mr. Libby nor anyone else has been charged with violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act or the Espionage Act, which were the original subjects of the investigation. Finally, critics say the punishment does not fit the crime: Mr. Libby was a first-time offender with years of exceptional public service and was handed a harsh sentence based in part on allegations never presented to the jury.
Others point out that a jury of citizens weighed all the evidence and listened to all the testimony and found Mr. Libby guilty of perjury and obstructing justice. They argue, correctly, that our entire system of justice relies on people telling the truth. And if a person does not tell the truth, particularly if he serves in government and holds the public trust, he must be held accountable. They say that had Mr. Libby only told the truth, he would have never been indicted in the first place.
Both critics and defenders of this investigation have made important points. I have made my own evaluation. In preparing for the decision I am announcing today, I have carefully weighed these arguments and the circumstances surrounding this case.
Mr. Libby was sentenced to thirty months of prison, two years of probation, and a $250,000 fine. In making the sentencing decision, the district court rejected the advice of the probation office, which recommended a lesser sentence and the consideration of factors that could have led to a sentence of home confinement or probation.
I respect the jury's verdict. But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive. Therefore, I am commuting the portion of Mr. Libby's sentence that required him to spend thirty months in prison.
My decision to commute his prison sentence leaves in place a harsh punishment for Mr. Libby. The reputation he gained through his years of public service and professional work in the legal community is forever damaged. His wife and young children have also suffered immensely. He will remain on probation. The significant fines imposed by the judge will remain in effect. The consequences of his felony conviction on his former life as a lawyer, public servant, and private citizen will be long-lasting.
The Constitution gives the President the power of clemency to be used when he deems it to be warranted. It is my judgment that a commutation of the prison term in Mr. Libby's case is an appropriate exercise of this power.
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Springfield! Springfield!
Exorcist, The (1973)
-"Let us pray.
"Holy Lord, Almighty Father,
Everlasting God...
"...and Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ...
"...who, once and for all, consigned
that fallen tyrant to the flames of Hell...
"...who sent your only begotten Son
into the world to crush that roaring lion...
"...hasten to our call for help...
"...and snatch from ruination...
"...and from the clutches
of the Noon-Day Devil...
"...this human being,
made in Your image and likeness.
"Strike terror, Lord, into the beast...
"...now laying waste to your vineyard.
"Let Your mighty hand cast him out
of Your servant, Regan Teresa MacNeil...
"...so he may no longer hold captive
this person...
"...whom it pleased You
to make in Your image...
"...and to redeem through Your Son,
who lives and reigns with You...
"...in the Unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, forever and ever.
-"Amen.
-"O Lord, hear my prayer."
Father Karras.
Damien.
The response, please, Damien!
"And let my cry come unto Thee."
"Almighty Lord, Word of God the Father,
Jesus Christ...
"...God and Lord of all creation...
"...who gave to your holy apostles...
"...the power to tramp underfoot
serpents and scorpions.
"Grant me...
"...Your unworthy servant...
"...pardon for all my sins...
"...and the power to confront
this cruel demon."
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jul/03/nation/na-libby3
Los Angeles Times
Bush spares Libby from prison
Cheney's former aide won't have to serve his 30-month sentence, but he's not pardoned in the CIA leak case.
July 03, 2007 David G. Savage and Richard B. Schmitt Times Staff Writers
WASHINGTON — President Bush wiped away the prison sentence of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on Monday, calling it an "excessive" punishment for a "first-time offender with years of exceptional public service."
On the day that Libby's last bid to stay out of prison was rejected by an appeals court, Bush said he had decided to act -- not by pardoning Libby of his crime, but by commuting his 30-month sentence. Bush's action spares Libby from prison, but it does not erase Libby's felony conviction for perjury and obstruction in the CIA leak case.
It "leaves in place a harsh punishment for Mr. Libby," Bush said in a statement, including the likely loss of his license to practice law. Libby also faces a $250,000 fine and two years' probation.
Libby, 56, was Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff and a powerful figure inside the Bush White House during the buildup to the Iraq war.
Compared with other presidents, Bush has granted few pardons or commutations, and those were usually for people who had already served their sentences. As governor of Texas, he also spoke with pride of not interfering with death sentences and executions.
Under the Constitution, the president's decision to pardon a criminal or to commute his prison term cannot be overturned by Congress or the courts. It can be criticized, however, and Democrats were quick to lambaste the president.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) called it "disgraceful." Libby's conviction "was the one faint glimmer of accountability for the White House efforts to manipulate intelligence and silence critics of the Iraq war. Now, even that small bit of justice has been undone," Reid said.
"When it comes to the law, there should not be two sets of rules -- one for President Bush and Vice President Cheney and another for the rest of America," said Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) "Even Paris Hilton had to go to jail."
Several Democratic presidential candidates also condemned the action, including Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who called it typical of an administration that "has consistently placed itself and its ideology above the law."
However, House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said the president "did the right thing today.... The prison sentence was overly harsh and the punishment did not fit the crime."
Republican presidential candidate Rudolph W. Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor, said: "After evaluating the facts, the president came to a reasonable decision and I believe the decision was correct."
Former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.), who is considering entering the GOP race for the White House, said Bush should have gone further. "While for a long time I have urged a pardon for Scooter, I respect the president's decision. This will allow a good American, who has done a lot for his country, to resume his life."
Bush could still pardon Libby later.
William Jeffress Jr., one of Libby's lawyers, said Libby had no comment.
"As for the defense lawyers," Jeffress said, "we continue to believe the conviction itself is unjust but are grateful for the president's action in commuting the prison sentence."
Some legal observers said it still would be possible for the defense to continue its appeal. If it is successful, Libby will then avoid the taint of the felony conviction and the loss of his law license. Jeffress said the defense would fight to have the entire case thrown out.
Libby was questioned by the FBI in fall 2003 about the leak of the name of CIA officer Valerie Plame, whose husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, had publicly accused Bush and Cheney of falsely claiming that Iraqi agents had tried to purchase fuel for nuclear weapons in Africa. Wilson had been sent to the nation of Niger to assess the nuclear material claim and had found it baseless.
Libby denied that he had discussed Plame in June 2003, but nine witnesses later testified that he had spoken of her.
Libby was prosecuted for lying to the FBI and to a grand jury and for obstructing justice. In March, he was convicted by a jury in Washington, and last month, a federal judge sentenced him to 2 1/2 years behind bars.
On Monday morning, Libby was on the verge of becoming the first high-level White House official to be sent to prison since the Watergate scandal of the 1970s. Three judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit turned down his request to stay free, saying he had not raised a "substantial question" about his conviction.
In his two-page statement Monday, Bush said: "I have carefully weighed [the] arguments and the circumstances surrounding this case. I respect the jury's verdict." He described Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald as "a highly qualified, professional prosecutor who carried out his responsibilities as charged."
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Los Angeles Times
(Page 2 of 3)
Bush spares Libby from prison
Cheney's former aide won't have to serve his 30-month sentence, but he's not pardoned in the CIA leak case.
July 03, 2007 David G. Savage and Richard B. Schmitt Times Staff Writers
However, without naming U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton, Bush said he disagreed with the decision of the "district court" to send Libby to prison. "The Constitution gives the president the power of clemency to be used when he deems it to be warranted. It is my judgment that a commutation of the prison term in Mr. Libby's case is an appropriate exercise of this power," Bush said.
A court spokesman said Walton would have no comment on Bush's decision.
Fitzgerald, a Bush appointee who is the U.S. attorney in Chicago, issued a statement disputing the president's assertion that the sentence was "excessive," saying "an experienced federal judge" had followed the "applicable laws" in imposing punishment.
"It is fundamental to the rule of law that all citizens stand before the bar of justice as equals," he said. "That principle guided the judge during both the trial and the sentencing."
Libby's plight posed an acute political dilemma for Bush, who has shown reluctance to issue pardons but felt strong pressure to pardon Libby.
Bush has granted far fewer pardons than most presidents in the last 100 years, said Margaret Colgate Love, a former Justice Department attorney who oversaw pardons for eight years. Bush has issued only a third as many as pardons as President Reagan, for example, over the same duration in office.
Bush's public approval has sagged badly in the last two years. Many of his strongest supporters are conservatives who believe Libby should not have been prosecuted in the first place. They argue that Plame was not a true covert agent and that no crime was committed when her identity became public. And they note that others admitted to having revealed Plame's identity, including former Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage, whose conversation with columnist Robert Novak led to the first public mention of her.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) said he planned to hold hearings on the administration's handling of the leak in the Plame case.
"Now that the White House can no longer argue that there is a pending criminal investigation, I expect them to be fully forthcoming," he said.
Wilson, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, condemned the commutation and suggested that Bush was acting to ensure that full details of his or Cheney's involvement in the leak affair would never come to light. With Libby off the hook for any jail time, Wilson said, the former White House aide will have no incentive to cooperate with investigators in the future about involvement of his superiors.
"The president has clearly short-circuited the rule of law and the system of justice in this country, and I think there is a legitimate reason to ask why," Wilson said.
John J. Pitney Jr., a former Republican staffer who is a professor of politics at Claremont McKenna College, questioned whether Bush's decision would have much political effect. "Anybody who would disapprove of the commutation has turned against Bush already," he said.
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The Conversation (1974)
Quotes
[last lines]
Martin Stett: [on the phone] We know that you know, Mr. Caul. For your own sake, don't get involved any further. We'll be listening to you.
[plays back recording of Harry playing saxophone]
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jul/06/nation/na-libby6
Los Angeles Times
The Nation
Libby debate depends on what meaning of 'unpardonable' is
The Clintons' criticism of the clemency granted by President Bush is, well, awfully Rich, the White House says.
July 06, 2007 Richard B. Schmitt and James Gerstenzang Times Staff Writers
WASHINGTON — The White House exchanged volleys Thursday with President Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), over the question of executive clemency, with each side accusing the other of unpardonable acts.
Twice on Thursday the White House challenged criticism that the Clintons had directed at President Bush's commutation Monday of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's prison sentence.
The Clintons sought to distinguish their record on pardons, accusing Bush of attempting to protect the White House from scrutiny in sparing former vice presidential aide Libby prison.
Firing back, the Republican National Committee posted on its website, GOP.com, "A Sampling of Controversial Clinton Pardons and Commutations." Clemency granted by President Clinton included 140 pardons on his last day in office in January 2001.
"I don't know what Arkansan is for 'chutzpah,' but this is a gigantic case of it," White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said.
Meanwhile Libby, who had faced 30 months behind bars until Bush interceded, on Thursday paid a $250,000 fine imposed as part of his perjury and obstruction conviction, according to court records. The fine was paid from "personal savings," said his lawyer William Jeffress.
Friends and supporters of Libby have raised some $5 million through a legal defense fund. An advisor said the fund was not used to pay the fine.
Libby is continuing to appeal his March conviction in the CIA leak case.
Bush's commutation left intact the fine, as well as two years' supervised release -- a form of probation. The judge in the case, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton, has said he is not sure the law allows for the imposition of probation when a defendant has served no time in jail. He has asked lawyers to advise him on the issue by Monday.
Snow said Thursday that Bush intended for Libby to be subject to the probation.
Clinton's burst of presidential clemency on his last day in office included pardons for his half-brother, who had been convicted of cocaine distribution, and for a businessman under investigation for money laundering who was represented by a brother of Sen. Clinton.
President Clinton's most notorious pardon was of fugitive financier Marc Rich, whose ex-wife, Denise, was a Democratic Party fundraiser and patron of the Clinton presidential library.
Marc Rich was also a Libby client in the 1990s when Libby was in private law practice. Libby has said he was not involved in the effort to obtain a pardon for Rich, and he indicated in congressional testimony in 2001 that he would not necessarily have supported such a move.
President Clinton draws a distinction between his pardons and Bush's moves.
"I think there are guidelines for what happens when somebody is convicted," he told a radio interviewer Tuesday. "You've got to understand, this is consistent with their philosophy: They believe that they should be able to do what they want to do and that the law is a minor obstacle."
Sen. Clinton, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, said the pardons granted by her husband were routine.
The Libby commutation, she said, "was clearly an effort to protect the White House."
"There isn't any doubt now. What we know is that Libby was carrying out the implicit or explicit wishes of the vice president, or maybe the president as well, in the further effort to stifle dissent," Clinton told the Associated Press.
Bush, in announcing his commutation decision Monday, called Libby's sentence "excessive." Federal data show that 30 months of prison was well within the range of sentences received by other defendants in federal court. Three-fourths of the people convicted of obstruction of justice last year were sent to prison, with an average term of 70 months.
Spokesman Snow was asked Thursday about plans by House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) to hold hearings next week on the commutation.
"Well, fine, knock himself out.... And while he's at it, why doesn't he look at Jan. 20, 2001?" Snow said, referring to Clinton's 11th-hour pardons.
Snow defended Bush's action, saying, "Do we think we've done wrong? Do we think we've cut corners? The answer is no."
Several hours later, Scott Stanzel, a deputy White House press secretary, revisited that theme.
"The hypocrisy demonstrated by Democratic leaders on this issue is rather startling," he said. "When you think about the previous administration and the 11th-hour fire-sale pardons ... it's really startling that they have the gall to criticize what we believe is a very considered, a very deliberate approach to a very unique case."
Some legal experts said the two cases were hard to compare but neither act of clemency seemed very defensible.
Rich fled the country rather than face trial and was charged with crimes -- including tax evasion and trading with the enemy -- that carried more serious statutory penalties, they noted. The Libby commutation is problematic, they said, because his crime -- lying to a grand jury and obstructing justice -- goes to the heart of the administration of justice.
"It is like the pot and the kettle calling each other names," said former Assistant U.S. Atty. Martin J. Auerbach, who once oversaw the Rich case. "I think they were both wrong, for different reasons. They are both indefensible."
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Men at Work (1990)
Quotes
Mike: Hey, it's not what it looks like. We're respectable peace officers.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/happy-birthday-to-us-virgin-atlantic-turns-25-61828777.html
PR Newswire
Happy Birthday to Us! Virgin Atlantic Turns 25
Jun 22, 2009, 09:00 ET from Virgin Atlantic
SOUTH NORWALK, Conn., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Virgin Atlantic Airways, one of the world's leading long-haul airlines, today celebrated its 25th birthday in style by recreating the very first flight to New York that departed on June 22, 1984.
http://www.oocities.org/elzj78/bsgminiseries.html
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries [ Monday 08 December 2003 USA ]
Starbuck: Pilots you've got - there's twenty of us climbing the walls down in the ready room, but fighters...
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The Conversation (1974)
Release Info
USA 7 April 1974 (Los Angeles, California)
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The Conversation (1974)
Full Cast & Crew
Gene Hackman ... Harry Caul
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Men at Work (1990)
Release Info
USA 24 August 1990
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IMDb
Men at Work (1990)
Full Cast & Crew
Charlie Sheen ... Carl Taylor
Emilio Estevez ... James St. James
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070047/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Exorcist (1973)
Release Info
USA 26 December 1973
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IMDb
The Exorcist (1973)
Full Cast & Crew
Max von Sydow ... Father Merrin
Linda Blair ... Regan
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IMDb
Take the High Ground! (1953)
Release Info
USA 30 October 1953
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STARGATE WIKI
Stargate: The Movie (1994)
KASUF
You will bring disaster to all of us, son.
SKAARA
Father, we will not live as slaves!
[Kasuf pulls people down to kneel with him, beginning to pray. Skaara screams Na-ney and argues with him. Daniel notices all this.]
DANIEL
Kasuf. Take a look at your gods.
[He reaches to the dead guard and pushes the button on his helmet, revealing Horus.]
DANIEL
Take a good look.
[Kasuf stands, looking at the very human guard.]
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/watson-and-crick-discover-chemical-structure-of-dna/print
HISTORY
FEBRUARY 28, 1953 : WATSON AND CRICK DISCOVER CHEMICAL STRUCTURE OF DNA
On this day in 1953, Cambridge University scientists James D. Watson and Frances H.C. Crick announce that they have determined the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule containing human genes.
Though DNA–short for deoxyribonucleic acid–was discovered in 1869, its crucial role in determining genetic inheritance wasn’t demonstrated until 1943. In the early 1950s, Watson and Crick were only two of many scientists working on figuring out the structure of DNA. California chemist Linus Pauling suggested an incorrect model at the beginning of 1953, prompting Watson and Crick to try and beat Pauling at his own game. On the morning of February 28, they determined that the structure of DNA was a double-helix polymer, or a spiral of two DNA strands, each containing a long chain of monomer nucleotides, wound around each other. According to their findings, DNA replicated itself by separating into individual strands, each of which became the template for a new double helix. In his best-selling book, The Double Helix (1968), Watson later claimed that Crick announced the discovery by walking into the nearby Eagle Pub and blurting out that “we had found the secret of life.” The truth wasn’t that far off, as Watson and Crick had solved a fundamental mystery of science–how it was possible for genetic instructions to be held inside organisms and passed from generation to generation.
Watson and Crick’s solution was formally announced on April 25, 1953, following its publication in that month’s issue of Nature magazine. The article revolutionized the study of biology and medicine. Among the developments that followed directly from it were pre-natal screening for disease genes; genetically engineered foods; the ability to identify human remains; the rational design of treatments for diseases such as AIDS; and the accurate testing of physical evidence in order to convict or exonerate criminals.
Crick and Watson later had a falling-out over Watson’s book, which Crick felt misrepresented their collaboration and betrayed their friendship. A larger controversy arose over the use Watson and Crick made of research done by another DNA researcher, Rosalind Franklin, whose colleague Maurice Wilkins showed her X-ray photographic work to Watson just before he and Crick made their famous discovery. When Crick and Watson won the Nobel Prize in 1962, they shared it with Wilkins. Franklin, who died in 1958 of ovarian cancer and was thus ineligible for the award, never learned of the role her photos played in the historic scientific breakthrough.
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Stargate (1994)
Release Info
USA 28 October 1994
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The Selling of the Pentagon (1971 TV Movie)
Release Info
USA 23 February 1971
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117731/releaseinfo
IMDb
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Release Info
USA 18 November 1996 (Hollywood, California) (premiere)
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IMDb
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Full Cast & Crew
James Cromwell ... Zefram Cochran
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22fred+hoyle%22+%22Big+Bang%22+BBC+%22Third+Programme%22&hl=en&lr=&num=100&filter=0
2005 May 13 meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society
Fred Hoyle, the future Plumian Professor at Cambridge, was born on 1915 June 24, in Gilstead, ... He really did coin the expression 'Big Bang' to describe such models, ... in a talk on 1949 March 28 for the BBC's Third Programme. ...
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SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
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By 1949 Hoyle shot to international fame with his continuous-creation model of the Universe, a picture in stark contrast to the explosive models. He really did coin the expression 'Big Bang' to describe such models, but not in order to pour scorn as many biographers have alleged. Hoyle's first usage is purely picturesque, in a talk on 1949 March 28 for the "BBC's "Third Programme."
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Brilliant Blunders: How the Big Bang Beat Out the Steady State Universe
By Mario Livio on Thu, 27 Jun 2013
On March 28, 1949, at 6:30 in the evening, astrophysicist Fred Hoyle gave one of his authoritative radio lectures on The Third Programme, a cultural broadcast on the BBC’s that featured such intellectuals as philosopher Bertrand Russell and playwright Samuel Beckett. At one point, as he was trying to contrast his own scenario—one of continuous creation of matter in the universe—with the opposing theory, which claimed that the universe had a distinct and definite beginning, Hoyle made what was to become a controversial statement:
We now come to the question of applying the observational tests to earlier theories. 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 [emphasis added]. It now turns out that in some respect or other all such theories are in conflict with the observational requirements.
This lecture marked the birth of the term “big bang,” which has since been inextricably attached to the initial event from which our universe sprouted. Contrary to popular belief, Hoyle did not use the term in a derogatory manner. Rather, he was simply attempting to create a mental picture for his listeners.
Hoyle’s most enduring works were in the areas of nuclear astrophysics and stellar evolution. Yet most of those who remember him from his popular books and prominent radio programs know him as a cosmologist and co-originator of the idea of a steady state universe. (The steady state model predicted that galaxies that are billions of light-years away should look, statistically speaking, just like nearby galaxies, even though we see the former as they were billions of years ago because of the time it takes their light to reach us.)
He started from the observational fact that the universe is expanding. This immediately raised a question: If galaxies are continuously rushing away from each other, does that mean that space is becoming more and more empty? Hoyle answered with a categorical no. Instead, he proposed, matter is continually being created throughout space so that new galaxies and clusters of galaxies are constantly being formed at a rate that compensates precisely for the dilution caused by the cosmic expansion. In this way, Hoyle reasoned, the universe is preserved in a steady state. He once commented wittily, “Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.”
The idea of matter being continuously created out of nothing may appear crazy at first. However, as Hoyle was quick to point out, no one knew where matter had appeared from in the big bang cosmology, either. The only difference, he explained, was that in the big bang scenario all the matter was created in one explosive beginning, while in the steady state model matter has been created at a constant rate throughout an infinite time and is still being created at the same rate today. Hoyle contended that the concept of continuous creation of matter (when put in the context of a specific theory) was much more attractive than creation of the universe in the remote past, since the latter implied that observable effects had arisen from “causes unknown to science.”
The big bang and steady state models made distinctly different predictions about the distant universe. When we observe galaxies that are billions of light-years away, we get a picture of those galaxies as they were billions of years ago. In a continuously evolving universe (the big bang model), this means that we observe that particular part of the universe when it was younger and therefore different. In the steady state model, on the other hand, the universe has always existed in the same state. Consequently, the remote parts of the universe are expected to have precisely the same appearance as the local cosmic environment.
The first signs of trouble for the steady state model came not from optical telescopes but from radio astronomy. One of the pioneers in this endeavor was a physicist from the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge: Martin Ryle.
Unlike Hoyle, whose father was a wool and textiles merchant, Ryle came from a privileged background—his father was physician to King George VI—and he had received the best of what private education could offer. After some pioneering radio observations of the Sun in the late 1940s, Ryle and his group embarked on an ambitious program to detect radio sources beyond the solar system. Following some impressive improvements to the observational techniques that allowed them to discard background radiation from the Milky Way, Ryle and his colleagues discovered several dozen “radio stars” distributed more or less isotropically across the sky. Unfortunately, since most of the sources did not have visible counterparts, there was no way to determine their distances precisely.
Ryle began picking apart the steady state model by evaluating one of its testable predictions—that distant parts of the universe should look exactly the same as the local cosmic environment. He started to collect a large sample of radio sources, and to count how many of them there were at different intensity intervals. Since he had no way of knowing the actual distances to most sources (they were beyond the detection range of optical telescopes), Ryle made the simplest assumption: namely, that the observed weaker radio sources were, on average, more distant than the sources of the strong signals. He found that there were dramatically more weak sources than strong ones. In other words, it seemed that the density of sources at distances of billions of light-years (and therefore representing the universe billions of years ago) was much higher than the current density nearby. This was clearly at odds with a model of a never-changing universe, but it could be made consistent with a cosmos evolving from a big bang, if one assumed (correctly, as we now recognize) that galaxies were more prone to emit intense radio signals in their youth than at present, in their older age.
By the early 1960s, Ryle’s group had at its disposal even an entirely new radio observatory, funded by the Mullard electronics company. By then, Ryle and Hoyle had become engaged in a series of intellectual skirmishes, culminating in one particularly unpleasant incident. Hoyle later described this traumatic experience in his autobiographical book Home Is Where the Wind Blows. It all started with what appeared to be an innocent phone call from the Mullard company in early 1961. The person at the other end of the line invited Hoyle and his wife to attend a press conference at which Ryle was expected to present new results that were supposed to be of great interest to Hoyle. When they arrived at the Mullard headquarters in London, Hoyle’s wife, Barbara, was escorted to a seat in the front now, while Hoyle was led to a chair on stage, facing the media. He had no doubt that the announcement would be related to the counting of radio sources according to their intensity, but he couldn’t believe that he would have been invited if the results were to contradict the steady state theory.
Unfortunately, what Hoyle found utterly unthinkable did happen. When Ryle appeared, rather than making a brief announcement, as advertised, he launched into a technical, jargon-filled lecture on the results of his larger, fourth survey. He finished by claiming confidently that the results now showed unambiguously a higher density of radio sources in the past, therefore proving the steady state theory wrong. The shocked Hoyle was merely asked to comment on the results. Incredulous and humiliated, he barely mumbled a few sentences and rushed away from the event. The media frenzy that followed in the subsequent days disgusted Hoyle to the point that he avoided phone calls for a week and was absent even from the following Royal Astronomical Society meeting on February 10. Even Ryle realized that the press conference had crossed the border of common decency. He called Hoyle to apologize, adding that when he agreed to the Mullard event, he “had no idea how bad it would be.”
On the purely scientific front, however, despite these disturbing failures in etiquette, Ryle’s arguments grew increasingly compelling, and by the mid-1960s, the vast majority of the astronomical community agreed that the proponents of the steady state theory had lost the battle.
The discovery of extremely active galaxies, in which the accretion of mass onto central, supermassive black holes releases sufficient radiation to outshine the entire galaxy, cemented the evidence against a steady state universe. These objects, known as quasars, were luminous enough to be observed by optical telescopes. The observations allowed astronomers to use Hubble’s law to determine the distance to these sources, and to show convincingly that quasars were indeed more common in the past than at present. There was no escape from the conclusion that the universe was evolving and that it had been denser in the past. At that point, the floodgates opened, and the challenges to the steady state model kept pouring in.
In spite of Hoyle’s valiant efforts, beginning in the mid-1960s most scientists stopped paying attention to the steady state theory. Hoyle’s continuing attempts to demonstrate that all the confrontations between the theory and emerging observations could be explained away looked increasingly contrived and implausible. Worse yet, he seemed to have lost that “fine judgment” that he had once advocated, which was supposed to distinguish him from “merely becoming a crackpot.” Even as late as the year 2000, at the age of 85, he published a book entitled A Different Approach to Cosmology: From a Static Universe Through the Big Bang Towards Reality, in which he and his collaborators, Jayant Narlikar and Geoff Burbidge, explained the details of the quasi–steady state theory and their objections to the big bang. To express their contemptuous opinion of the scientific establishment, they presented in one of the book’s pages a photograph of a flock of geese walking on a dirt road with the caption, “This is our view of the conformist approach to the standard (hot big bang) cosmology. We have resisted the temptation to name some of the leading geese.” Perhaps the best thing said about the book appeared in the review by Britain’s Sunday Telegraph, and it referred not so much to the contents of the book as to Hoyle’s fiery personality: “Hoyle systematically reviews the evidence for the Big Bang theory, and gives it a good kicking . . . it’s hard not to be impressed with the audacity of the demolition job . . . I can only hope that I possess one- thousandth of Hoyle’s fighting spirit when I, like him, have reached my 85th year.”
Hoyle’s blunder was in his apparently pigheaded, almost infuriating refusal to acknowledge the theory’s demise even as it was being smothered by accumulating contradictory evidence, and in his use of asymmetrical criteria of judgment with respect to the big bang and steady state theories. What was it that caused this intransigent behavior?
A few statements made by Hoyle himself provide the best evidence. In Home Is Where the Wind Blows, he wrote the following striking paragraph:
The problem with the scientific establishment goes back to the small hunting parties of prehistory. It must then have been the case that, for a hunt to be successful, the entire party was needed. With the direction of prey uncertain, as the direction of the correct theory in science is initially uncertain, the party had to make a decision about which way to go, and then they all had to stick to the decision, even if it was merely made at random. The dissident who argued that the correct direction was precisely opposite from the chosen direction had to be thrown out of the group, just as the scientist today who takes a view different from the consensus finds his papers rejected by journals and his applications for research grants summarily dismissed by state agencies. Life must have been hard in pre-history, for the more a hunting party found no prey in its chosen direction, the more it had to continue in that direction, for to stop and argue would be to create uncertainty and to risk differences of opinion breaking out, with the group then splitting disastrously apart. This is why the first priority among scientists is not to be correct but for everybody to think the same way. It is this perhaps instinctive primitive motivation that creates the establishment.
One can hardly imagine a stronger advocacy for dissent from mainstream science. Hoyle echoes here the words of the influential second-century physician Galen of Pergamum: “From my very youth I despised the opinion of the multitude and longed for truth and knowledge, believing that there was for man no possession more noble or divine.” However, as Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal for Britain, has pointed out, isolation has its price. Science progresses not in a straight line from A to B but in a zigzag path shaped by critical reevaluation and faultfinding interaction. The continuous evaluation provided by the scientific establishment that Hoyle so despised is what creates the checks and balances that keep scientists from straying too far in the wrong direction. By imposing upon himself academic isolation, Hoyle denied himself these corrective forces.
I have noted several times that the idea of a steady state universe was brilliant at the time it was proposed. In retrospect, the steady state universe, with its continuous creation of matter, shares many features with currently fashionable models of an inflationary universe: the conjecture that the cosmos experienced a faster-than-light growth spurt when it was a fraction of a second old. In some respects, the steady state universe is simply a universe in which inflation always occurs.
Hoyle’s brilliance was also revealed in the fact that he belonged to that small group of scientists capable of investigating two mutually inconsistent theories in parallel. In spite of continuing to hold out against the big bang for his entire life, Hoyle actually contributed important studies to big bang nucleosyntheses, in particular concerning the cosmic helium abundance and the synthesis of elements at very high temperatures. Hoyle’s theories, even when eventually proven wrong, were always dynamizing, and they unfailingly energized entire fields and catalyzed new ideas.
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