Trekking Way Out West
Response to John Horgan's report from the Esalen Institute symposium.
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"...an exceptional work... This erudite, idiosyncratic book more than earns a place on the library shelf. Highly recommended. - Choice Library Journal
"...a lucid exploration of modern scientific history... a unique synthesis" - Graham Harman
"...provocative and sharply written... makes a radical case..." - Brian Rotman
A philosophical critique of the cosmological physics behind big bang theory and the scientific understanding of our universe.
Metaphysical Experiments: Physics and the Invention of the Universe from University of Minnesota Press is now available worldwide
Interview from How The Light Gets In ideas festival
IAI (Institute of Art and Ideas) sat down with Bjørn Ekeberg in 2023 to discuss the shaky foundations of cosmology and his unique approach to the field.
IAI Academy Talk on The Foundations of Cosmology
Bjørn gives a lecture at How The Light Gets In festival on the building blocks of the current standard model of cosmology and some of the problems that are rarely talked about that merit a skeptical approach to some of its widely accepted claims.
AUTHOR INTERVIEW
IAI sits down with Bjørn Ekeberg ahead of HowTheLightGetsIn festival in June 2022 to ask about the problems with the current science of cosmology.
Click the article image to read the full interview (ca 11 min read).
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN CONTROVERSY AND DEBATE
Read by almost 70,000 online, Bjørn's op-ed outlines some conclusions from the book and questions the orthodoxy of Big Bang theory.
The article was denounced by a Big Bang cosmologist in Forbes.
Read Bjørn's reply on this blog.
ABOUT BJØRN
Philosopher of Science
PhD, University of Victoria, Canada
With extensive education and outstanding international scholarship in the fields of journalism, media & communication theory, cybernetics, science and technology studies, political science, economics, philosophy, and history of thought, Bjørn is an unorthodox thinker who likes to challenge the unquestionable.
Bjørn's enduring focus of interest is on the limits of scientific knowledge and his published work is on cosmology and our understanding of the universe. He lives in Oslo, Norway.
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"No progress can be made in the philosophy of science
if the whole settlement is not discussed at once
in all its components: ontology, epistemology,
ethics, politics, and theology."
Bruno Latour
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