I found Paul LaViolette's book astounding in its breadth of scope and depth of research. He has ranged across thousands of years of history and connected ancient myths and early sciences with contemporary understanding of the cosmos, and in the process has reinvented how the universe was born. A towering achievement. A seminal work not to be missed.
Ned Herrmann, author of The Creative Brain and The Whole Brain Business Book
In his latest books -- Beyond the Big Bang [Genesis of the Cosmos] and Earth Under Fire, which are accessible and rewarding to the patient layman -- Dr. LaViolette presents, with meticulous scholarship, the "big picture" of earth history and its likely long-distance future.
New Science News
This book comprises an impressive synthesis of scholarship and a dazzling and daring dual hypothesis--namely, that the deeper truths of ancient myths pre-figure modern scientific insight, and that the central insight involves a model of continuous cosmic creation which today's theoretical physics merely hints at.
Willis Harman, President, Institute of Noetic Sciences
Beyond the Big Bang is well thought out and coherently argued. A stimulus for fresh thinking.
Jason Keehn, Brain/Mind Bulletin
If you can find the time to read just one book this decade that touches upon any of these vital topics, physics, religion, cosmology or mythology, this is the one to read. In Beyond the Big Bang [Genesis of the Cosmos], Dr. LaViolette builds a masterful and elegant new edifice of hard science. To do so, he uses well-known materials in a brilliant architecture never before envisioned by western science.
Along the way, he ably exposes the essential bankruptcy of the established Big Bang/Expanding Universe cosmology, elevates ancient Egyptian mythology to the status of a succinct metaphoric science lesson, and reduces a number of orthodox scientific principles to the status of myth. Quarks, gluons, virtual particles, the strong and weak nuclear forces, dark matter, special and general relativity, to name just a few cherished staples of twentieth century physics and astrophysics, all evaporate in the light of his insight.
Not content with such minor upheavals, LaViolette also creates what can only be called a new General Field Theory, shoehorns in legitimate space for a spiritual dimension in science, redefines Tarot, rediscovers Atlantis, and perhaps most astonishing of all, apparently restructures astrology.
Paul A. LaViolette is a doctor of systems science, and nothing it seems is safe from the penetrating analysis of applied systems theory. This is not science-lite. Nor yet another Chariot of the Gods-like amalgam of genuine mysteries, twisted facts and hysterical speculation, this is the well researched, beautifully ordered product of a highly trained and highly original mind. Equally important to all of us who will read it, the test itself is well planned and clearly written.
The main problem for Beyond the Big Bang [Genesis of the Cosmos] is simply its daring and its scope. LaViolette gives historical evidence that the Big Bang was a bust to impartial eyes decades ago. But Big Science continues to teach its party line in every university. Generations of bright young explorers are still given false maps of the "known world" in physics and told to extend the edges of that map, and that map only. How many thousand brilliant works have been wasted in this way? Anyone party to that crime will continue to resist the facts long after reasonable doubt has been satisfied. Nor are the vested interests among orthodox astrologers, professional Tarot readers and academic mythologists likely to turn hand springs upon hearing Dr. LaViolette's good news. So what if the new analysis makes better sense than the traditional tales? What "expert" really wants to rethink what she or he already knows?
Only the open, the curious, the innovative, the exploratory will welcome this huge intellectual challenge with open arms and probing mind. All others will hug the worn out teddy of a mechanical universe that started with a bang against their hearts, and whimper.
Thomas C. Chavez, Reflections Magazine, Fall 1996
A must read for the few open minded scientists out there...
This book hinges on the idea that we are on the verge of rediscovering an ancient knowledge. That "philosopher's stone" of physics - a grand unifying theory.
The author begins by explaining this theory - a continually transmuting ether of existence, akin to the Dirac Sea of virtual particles in quantum mechanics. A theory that describes how matter can be created from fluctuations in chaotic flux, and links gravity and electromagnetic forces. He then continues by providing evidence of how this theory was known long ago, and what implications it has for science and our future.
It does not rely, as one reviewer put it, on the "tired light" cosmology. It, instead, creates a living framework for the universe in which the Doppler red shift could also, to my mind, be explained by Hadrons putting on weight as they get older. This would also explain the "high red-shift, low red-shift at the same distance anomaly".
It is truly refreshing to find a mind that is not blinkered by the views of his peers and seeks to explore new pastures. Pastures that have not been specifically designed to keep the herd happy, and which the herd is equally scared to stray from.
If you are scientifically inclined, with an open mind and a desire to understand everything, then BUY THIS BOOK!
It may not give you all the answers, but it will certainly give you ideas...Excerpted from a reader review
This book describes a fundamental mechanism for explaining the creation of our material universe which is at the same time new and old, and certainly very appealing. Paul LaViolette does an incredible job of weaving parallel notions from the most sophisticated physics, to everyday business ideas, to ideas from ancient manuscripts in a way that makes compelling the parallels he has uncovered. This brilliant synthesis of material from such diverse areas of human knowledge could only have been accomplished by a true systems scientist, and indeed, the general systems nature of the whole proposal makes it immensely appealing. This work should be given the greatest of attention by our world's thinkers.
George G. Lendaris, Ph.D., Professor of Systems Science & Electrical Engineering, Portland State University, Portland, OR
Subquantum Kinetics, an elegant alternative to the big bang.
One would suspect that the universe operates as a system analogous to natural systems which we obseve every day; Paul LaViolette has submitted a theory which posits exactly this. Leaving the patchwork ransom note of the big bang aside, LaViolette has outlined the course of physics in the next century and beyond. Beyond the Big Bang [Genesis of the Cosmos] takes bold steps to answer some of the most fundamental questions of existence, and represents another decoded piece of the ancient astronomical puzzle. Einstein would be pleased.Reader Review
In his new work, Beyond the Big Bang, Paul LaViolette explores the astonishing parallels between the shrewd concepts of modern scientific thought and creation myths of our ancient civilizations. The author applies systems theory to legends that have survived through time and that refer to a substrate, to a medium that "exists beneath," which is generally called the Ether. LaViolette explains in direct, non technical language how the ancient myths encode a theory of "continuous creation" according to which matter is continually brought into being from "seeds" of order that are spontaneously born from the surrounding chaos.
The book, which is written in a thought-provoking way and with great inspiration and which is illustrated with diagrams and photographs, offers to the professional, as well as to the layman, a high level critique of the contradictions and biases that characterize the so called unchallenged "superiority" of present day science. With his new work, Dr. LaViolette far surpasses the most advanced scientific theories that circulate in the present day world and reconnects us through the myths with the ancient wisdom.
Aries Poulianos, Anthropos