Geoffrey Burbidge British astronomer Fred Hoyle, he and his wife were co-authors of "Synthesis of the Elements in Stars", a fundamental paper on stellar nucleosynthesis published in 1957. It is commonly referred to as the BFH paper after the initials of the surnames of the four authors. This paper describes the process of stars burning lighter elements into successively heavier atoms which then are expelled to form other structures in the universe, including other stars and planets. In recent years Burbidge was known mostly for his alternative cosmology "quasi-steady state theory", which contradicts the Big Bang theory. According to Burbidge, the universe
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