Peter J Carroll

“The most original, and probably the most important, writer on Magick since Aleister Crowley."
Robert Anton Wilson, author of the Cosmic Trigger trilogy.

Peter Carroll began his career in Magic at London University where the Chemistry proved so tedious that he settled on a pass degree in that and an unauthorized first in Magic, with Liber Null & Psychonaut emerging as his postgraduate thesis over the next several years whilst teaching high school science.

He then set off around the world wandering in the Himalayas, building boats in India and Australia and seeking out unusual people.

Then after a stay in Yorkshire, he headed back to the Himalayas for a while again before returning to settle in the west of England to found a family and a magical order. Appalled by the compromises made by so many magi to make a living out of their writing or teaching, Carroll decided to make his fortune with a natural products business so that he could write and teach only what had value and interest for him.

He maintains a personal website at specularium.org and acts as Chancellor to Arcanorium College arcanoriumcollege.com.

  • Past Grandmaster of the Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros

  • Chancellor of Arcanorium College

  • Acting Marshall, Knights of Chaos

  • A Bard of Dobunni Grove

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Cosmological Gravitational Redshift

In Hypersphere Cosmology, the redshift of distant galaxies arises from the effect of gravity on light traveling huge distances, rather than from an expansion of the universe as in conventional LCDM Big-Bang Cosmology.

Newton’s Shell Theorem combined with Einstein’s General Relativity indicates that such a Cosmological Gravitational Redshift effect will occur.

Newton’s Shell Theorem demonstrates two things, firstly that a massive spherically symmetric body affects external bodies as though all of its mass acts from its centre point, and secondly that a massive spherically symmetric hollow sphere exerts no net gravitational force on any body inside of it, regardless of that body’s position.

As the universe seems fairly homogenous and isotropic on a large intergalactic scale, we can regard any vast spherical volume of space as both hollow and massive, despite its rather low overall density.

Thus observers should consider themselves located on the surface of a sphere surrounding any distant galaxy they choose to observe and expect to observe a redshift which depends on its distance and all the mass laying within such a sphere.

Thus although observers will not notice a net cosmological gravitational pull from any direction, they will notice that all incoming light from very distant sources becomes redshifted to an extent dictated by the sphere of mass defined by the radius of the distance to those far sources.

This effect should occur in any non-expanding universe, whether hyperspherical or infinite in extent.