Sam Redlark

  image generated by Grok Naresh Pandey developed his theory of galactic migration while working a part-time job at the Transport Department in New Delhi, where he helped to gather data for a traffic mediation study. It was from the platform of a cherry picker, raised 30 feet above various busy intersections in the Indian capital city, that he looked down upon the jostling vehicles and imagined each one as a galaxy moving independently through space. At the time of his eureka moment, Pandey was a hard-up PhD student of astrophysics at the Meerut Institute of Astronomical Sciences. The university is built around the ruins of the Bhumimitra Observatory, which date to the first century AD, although an observatory is thought to have stood there for many hundreds of years before that time. His theory, which did not arrive fully-formed, was initially sketched-out and developed over a series of papers and lectures. In 1997 these articles were re-written in layman's terms by their author a...