14 Facts About Eric Lerner

Eric J Lerner was born on May 31,1947 and is an American popular science writer and independent plasma researcher.

Eric Lerner wrote the 1991 book The Big Bang Never Happened, which advocates Hannes Alfven's plasma cosmology instead of the Big Bang theory.

Eric Lerner is founder, president, and chief scientist of LPP Fusion.

Eric Lerner then pursued a career in popular science writing.

Eric Lerner is an active general science writer, estimating that he has had about 600 articles published.

Eric Lerner has received journalism awards between 1984 and 1993 from the Aviation Space Writers Association.

Eric Lerner believes that a dense plasma focus can be used to produce useful aneutronic fusion energy.

Eric Lerner explained his "Focus Fusion" approach in a 2007 Google Tech Talk.

Eric Lerner referred to this as evidence that the Big Bang was a failed paradigm.

Eric Lerner denigrated the observational evidence for dark matter and recounted a well known cosmological feature that superclusters are larger than the largest structures that could have formed through gravitational collapse in the age of the universe.

Eric Lerner's ideas have been rejected by mainstream physicists and cosmologists.

In particular, American astrophysicist and cosmologist Edward L Wright criticized Lerner for making errors of fact and interpretation, arguing that:.

Eric Lerner left the National Caucus in 1978, later stating in a lawsuit that he had resisted pressure from the US Labor Party, an organization led by Lyndon LaRouche, to violate election law by channeling profits of an engineering firm to the organization.

Eric Lerner participated in the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011.