Alternative Cosmologies

I should mention that the academic year 1987/1988 turned out to be traumatic for reasons unconnected with our work. University College Cardiff was deemed to be in financial difficulty by the Government and Principal Bill Bevan was forced to resign. Furthermore, University College Cardiff and the neighbouring University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology was forced to form a merged University institution that came into legal existence in 1988 under the name University of Wales College of Cardiff, later to be called Cardiff University. In the process of merger individual departments in the two constituent colleges had also to merge. There were 4 mathematics departments at University College Cardiff and one at the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology that were combined into a single School of Mathematics…