Presented here are some of the thoughts and ideas I have had over the past ten years or so concerning the formation of the universe and our solar system. Being a metallurgist, I have had no formal cosmological training but I do have a solid secondary educational background in mathematics, physics and chemistry.
My interest in cosmology was sparked when I read "The Nature of the Universe" by Fred Hoyle, the English astrophysicist (1918 - 2001). In 1949 Fred gave a series of talks on the radio for the British Broadcasting Corporation and these talks were later presented in the above book published in 1950. It was in this series that Hoyle coined the term "big bang", not in any pejorative sense, as some people claim. Subsequently I acquired many of the books by and about him.
I spent the major part of my working life working mainly on the development, manufacture and testing of nickel/iron alloys for magnetic and controlled expansion applications. Using eight bit Motorola microprocessors, I designed and built equipment to aid manufacture and testing. I also worked on the development of copper-clad niobium/titanium superconducting wire. My working life started in a steelworks for a couple of years after graduation at the Department of Metallurgy at Kings College, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, a year before it became Newcastle University, and finished with a part-time four year post-retirement-age stint operating a scanning electron microscope at a fuel cell company.
My name is George Everett
The Appendix elaborates on some of the technical points in Main.