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Hoyle/Box 39/14/64
Unique identifier
GB 275 Hoyle/Box 39/14/64
Title
Typescript letter, signed, from Ed McCracken, Austin, Texas, to FH
Date(s)
- 20 Dec 1969 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1p paper
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Scope and content
Thinks that 'the greatest obstacle to the acceptance of the continual creation theory and the steady state universe is the realization that matter banks up in quantity the further out one goes into extra-galactic space'. This misunderstanding explains the discrepancy he has found between the accepted estimate for the radius and circumference of the universe.