title: Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science
author: Halton Arp
description: This book lays down a lifetime of seeing the world differently, looking at alternative explanations for a complex, beautiful universe. -- <i>Sky &amp; Telescope, June 1999</i>
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  Halton Arp, Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science (Apeiron, Montreal, 1998) 
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  Preface 
   
  y purpose in publishing this book is to communicate information which would 
  not otherwise be accessible. About 10 years ago my first book on this subject 
  appeared: Quasars, Redshifts and Controversies. That first book had really been written 
  between 1984 and 1985, but it took a seemingly interminable two years to publish 
  because uncountable numbers of publishers turned it down. One university press, that 
  of my alma mater, was enthusiastic about it until they gave it to a member of the Astron-
  omy faculty to read. Another, Cambridge University Press, declined to publish it, but 
  once it was published bought a large number of copies at very low cost to sell through 
  their distribution. (At least the distribution was a useful step). 
  Finally, Donald Goldsmith came to the rescue of what I view as academic free-
  dom of communication and published it under the aegis of his small 