Name : Eit Gaastra
Date and place of birth : 1962, Terwispel, The Netherlands
Education : 1980 - 1987 Technical University Delft, chemical engineering (MSc in August 1987)
1987 - 1989 First attempt at writing novels
1989 - 1991 Environmental researcher at the Universities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam
1991 - 2001 Writing novels full time (which got me interested in philosophy and cosmology)
2001 - 2010 Full time work on philosophy, physics, cosmology and astronomy
December 24 2009
On December 24 2009 my book De derde wetenschapsrevolutie (in English: The third revolution of science) was published by publisher Free Musketeers. The book is written for the general public and contains the history of philosophy and science, showing where things went right and wrong. It also brings new philosophy, physics, cosmology and astronomy and contains much more ideas than this website. You can easily read the book from the beginning to the end without any knowledge of philosophy or science. If you want to know why we live and why the universe exists and get a good understanding of it, I strongly advice you to read this book instead of this website. You can find more information about the book when you go to publisher Free Musketeers.
May 22 2007
Presentation of alternative physics and cosmology on a science congress in Amsterdam organized by the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research. I was invited after sending a manuscript to the organization of the congress.
October 2005
Publication of a paper in Progress in Physics about alternative physics and cosmology.
May 2005
Publication of a paper about far away galaxies in the proceedings of the 12th annual conference of the Natural Philosophy Alliance.
October 29 2004
Presentation of alternative physics and cosmology on a seminar concerning future science in Leeuwarden. You can read the text that was handed out to the audience.
April 7 2004
Presentation of an alternative astronomy at the 11th annual conference of the Natural Philosophy Alliance which was held from April 7 to April 10 in Denver, Colorado, USA. You can read the paper that was published in the proceedings of the conference.
May 28 2003
Major update of this website.
I dedicate this website to the memory of dr. John E. Chappell, Jr., who got me out of my scientific isolation by inviting me to join the Natural Philosophy Alliance1, an organization which he co-founded and directed. John Chappell's invitation in February 2002 gave me a lot of encouragement to continue my work on physics, cosmology and astronomy. Sadly he died on June 5 2002 at the age of 68. By then he had gathered alternative thinkers from all over the world by inviting them to join the Natural Philosophy Alliance.
January 10 2002
Publication of this website on the internet. You can read the print version of the old website.
December 1995
Publication of a novel under the pseudonym Durk Wille. The last chapter of the novel is a cosmological paper.
(The publisher went broke in 2000, but you can buy the book if you click here.)
(If you like you can read two Durk Wille stories that were published by the same publisher in 1995 and 1996 in short story collections with other prose authors.)
October 1994
Publication of a philosophical/cosmological article under the pseudonym Durk Wille in the Dutch philosophy magazine Filosofie.
Below a few quotes from interviews I gave.
January 26 2010, Groninger Gezinsbode
“The key word in current science is self-interest.”
(You can read the original article or you can read the English translation, for the photo: click here.)
September 11 2004, Dagblad van het Noorden
“The big bang is an absurd theory.”
(You can see the original article or you can read the English translation.)
May 6 2004, Omrop Fryslân
“The theory of relativity is the sacred basis from which everything within cosmology and astronomy is deducted.”
March 26 2004, Groninger Gezinsbode
“The bottom line is that astronomers and physicists are being brainwashed from the very beginning of their studies, they have the theory of relativity and the big bang model implanted as the indisputable truth.”
(You can read the English translation of the article.)
September 3 2003, Groninger Gezinsbode
“Before twenty years we'll laugh at Einstein and the big bang.”
(You can see the original article or you can read the English translation.)
Here a few quotes from interviews I gave in 1996 under the pseudonym Durk Wille, shortly after my first novel had been published.
June 1 1996, Radio 5 (NPS)
“The search for a basis from which we can understand and build up our life is the essence of my novel.”
March 21 1996, Delta
“All scientists sit on their own small islands of knowledge and no one makes overall connections between all kinds of sciences.”
(You can read the original article or the English translation.)
January 19 1996, Leeuwarder Courant
“If plants have feelings then why would other lower life forms have no feelings?”
January 18 1996, Radio 5 (VPRO)
“Thoughts are nothing but feelings linked together so fast that we don't realize anymore that thoughts are feelings.”
January 13 1996, Friesch Dagblad
“You can cut proteins into amino acids and you can cut amino acids into atoms, but where is life's borderline? If there is no exact borderline where life starts or ends, then atoms live too.”
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