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Writing in Scientific American, two astronomers-Briton Martin Ryle and American Allan R. Sandage-theorize that Hoyle's steady-state universe does not jibe with cosmic fact. Rather, their findings support the rival evolutionary theory that the universe is expanding from its beginnings as a dense state of matter. The evolutionary theory also holds that the universe once expanded at a faster rate than now. Hoyle believes that the universe has always expanded at a constant rate...
Colliding Galaxies. Ryle, a scholar with Hoyle at Cambridge University, bases his theory on recent findings of radio astronomy, the delicate discipline that measures celestial radio signals as faint as a hundred-millionth of the power of a TV signal. Working with signals from 1,936 sources, Ryle notes that 30 come from within the earth's galaxy. He postulates that the remaining, signals come from far beyond the limits of the galaxy and are caused, in fact, by the intermeshing of other galaxies...
...champions of the idea was on hand-Britain's Dr. John A. Ryle, first professor of social medicine at Oxford...
...Thirty years of my life," he said, "I have watched disease in the ward being studied more and more thoroughly-if not always more thoughtfully-through the higher power of the microscope." Dr. Ryle thought it was high time to switch to a telescope, to consider man "as a person and a member of a family and of much larger social groups, with his health and sickness intimately bound up with the conditions of his life and work...
Professor Ryle suggested that doctors should look for answers to some unexplored questions: What makes healthy people healthy? Why has the prevalence of intestinal ulcers, once rare, risen so enormously in the 20th Century? Why did the stillbirth rate in Wales, and tuberculosis in Britain, drop sharply during the war? Why do workingmen die of stomach and skin cancer twice as often as professional men? Why do doctors have twelve times as high a death rate from angina pectoris as farm workers...