The Black Cloud Society into the book. Hoyle was also responsible for the term "Big Bang", though Hoyle himself did not subscribe to the Big Bang theory in favour of his own Steady State Theory. In a plot twist that foreshadows Hoyle's stance on panspermia, the cloud expresses surprise that intelligent life is capable of forming on planets. The novel has a recurrent theme of the duplicity and shallowness of politicians compared with scientists. The Black Cloud The Black Cloud is a science fiction novel by British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle. Published in 1957, the book details the arrival of an enormous cloud of
The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report cosmologists to describe the universe conveniently in one mathematical formula, a goal Albert Einstein was trying to achieve in his "unified theory." The book also explains that virtually every society worldwide from ancient Egyptians to Native Americans to dwellers of modern cities have a supposition and hypothesis of the universe, which ultimately influences their thinking consciously and subconsciously. Ferris explains in the beginning of his book the cosmological model as it has arrived to us today from ancient philosophy. He then goes into quantum physics, deep explanations of the Big Bang Theory and that "space" and matter in the Big