Don Nelson
Don Nelson | |
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| Known for | Special-relativity-based models of cosmic expansion |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cosmology |
Don Nelson is an independent researcher and author who has published a series of papers on cosmology and relativity through the General Science Journal. He is listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.
Ideas
Nelson's writings apply special relativity to questions of cosmic structure and expansion. His self-published papers include "The Long Bang", "A Theory of Galaxies Formation", "Drag caused by two gravity well interacting", and "Thought Experiment – The Twin Paradox". In work catalogued under the title "The Special Relativity Solution and the Shrinking Universe", he proposes a shell model that invokes special relativity to describe the expansion of the local universe. These proposals are self-published and lie outside the mainstream cosmological consensus.