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EPISODE · Apr 24, 2026 · 1H 36M

Panspermia, Intelligent Dust Clouds at the Lagrange Points, and Why Nobody Cites Hoyle ft. Chandra Wickramasinge

from The Cosmic Tusk · host George Howard

Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe is a cosmologist, astronomer, and mathematician who spent nearly 50 years working alongside Sir Fred Hoyle. Together they published roughly 70 papers in Nature arguing that cosmic dust is biological, that life is a property of the universe itself, and that Earth is a collection plate. None of those papers were ever refuted, they were ignored.In this episode of The Cosmic Tusk podcast, George Howard sits down with Chandra and his wife Priya for a conversation that covers the science, the suppression, and the personal cost. Arthur C. Clarke shows up on a bumpy prop plane, a fax machine in Cardiff delivers the most important spectrum in modern biology, and there are dust clouds at the Lagrange points that might be listening.

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