Tom Van Flandern
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Tom Charles Van Flandern (born Cleveland, Ohio, 1940) is an astronomer who specializes in celestial mechanics. He received a PhD at Yale University and worked at the U.S. Naval Observatory for 20 years. He is married to Barbara Ann Weber and the father of four children.
In 1991, he founded the Meta Research organization in Washington, D. C. He has formulated an interpretation of the physics behind the standard model of gravitation, General Relativity, that differs from that accepted by the general scientific community.
In 1993, he authored a book with the title: Dark Matter, Missing Planets and New Comets: Paradoxes Resolved, Origins Illuminated, which, in his own words, considers the nature of things by asking the most fundamental questions of why and how.
