From horror film to astrophysics

Here's an interesting claim by the great documentarian Adam Curtis: a horror movie inspired the steady-state cosmology hypothesis.

The movie was Dead of Night (1945), and some British astronomers were impressed by it.

The scientists loved the film, and they sat discussing its circular structure. One of them suggested that it could be the model for how the whole universe really worked. That, although the universe was expanding, it was also constantly renewing itself - to maintain itself in a steady state.

The Gothic: making your world, one vision at a time.