Fred Hoyle’s Universe

Fred Hoyle’s Universe.- I: Personal Reminiscence.- Working with Fred (1942–49).- Fred Hoyle and naval radar 1941–5.- Fred Hoyle and the Anglo-Australian telescope.- Fred Hoyle and Manchester.- Meeting with a remarkable man: Sir Fred Hoyle Memorial Conference.- II: Stellar Structures and Evolution.- Fred’s contributions to stellar evolution.- Fred Hoyle, Red giants and beyond.- Some remarks on solar neutrinos.- Novae as thermonuclear laboratories.- The Eddington mission.- Black hole binary dynamics.- III: Cosmology.- Numerical coincidences and ‘Tuning’ in cosmology.- Working with Fred on action at a distance.- Gravity from spacetime thermodynamics.- A statistical evaluation of anomalous redshift claims.- Redshift periodicities, The galaxy-quasar connection.- Research with Fred.- The discovery of major new phenomenology in spiral discs and its theoretical meaning.- The Prehistory of the steady state theory.- IV: Interstellar Matter.- Interstellar matter and star formation.- Elevating the status of dust.- V: Comets.- Giant comets and human culture.- An exceptional cosmic influence and its bearing on the evolution of human culture as evident in the apparent early development of mathematics and astronomy.- VI: Panspermia.- Panspermia according to Hoyle.- Astronomy or biology?.- A balloon experiment to detect microorganisms in the outer space.- A microbiologist looks at Panspermia.- What Darwin missed.- Cosmic genes in the Cretaceous-tertiary transition.- Remembering Fred Hoyle.