Les Hardison

Les Hardison is an eighty-one year old retired engineer. He graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1950 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. During his working years, he was a Petroleum Process Design Engineer for UOP, Inc., and later Technical Director of UOP Air Correction Division.

During the last twenty-five years of his working career he was President of ARI Technologies, Inc., a small air pollution control company which developed, among other things, the LO-CAT® Hydrogen Sulfide Oxidation Process. He holds about 40 patents, mostly in the fields of petroleum refining or air pollution control technology.

He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up mostly on Chicago's south side. He his wife for 57 years, Dolores, passed away last year. He has seven children, all but one married, and thirteen grandchildren, many of whom live in the chicago area. He spends his winters in Florida, and enjoys golfing, flying, fishing and life in general.

He has never had any special training in Physics or Cosmology and recognizes that if he knew more about them, he would probably not have written his first book. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

However, he does have some serious questions about the foundations of modern physical science, including the belief that light travels at a fixed rate of speed independent of the velocity of the observer, and many of the supposedly bedrock physical theories which depend on this proposition.