Anthony Peratt

He received a Ph.D in electrical engineering / plasma physics in 1971 from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles.

[1] He worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory between 1972 and 1979, during which time he held the position of a Guest Physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics at Garching, near Munich, from 1975 to 1977.

From 1981 to the present he has worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, serving in the Applied Theoretical Physics Division.

[6][7][8] Peratt paper: Characteristics for the Occurrence of a High Current ZPinch Aurora as Recorded in Antiquity squatter squatting man AnthonyPeratt Peratt's name is listed among the scientists signing "An Open Letter to the Scientific Community" (published in New Scientist in May 2004) that critiques the "growing number of hypothetical entities in the big bang theory".

The letter also states that plasma cosmology, the steady-state model and other alternative approaches can also explain the basic phenomena of the cosmos.