Sir Arthur Eddington, the father of astrophysics and one of the few scientists who fathomed the underlying spiritual nature of the material world, explained in his last major work, entitled “Fundamental Theory” (which was published after his death in 1948), that an analysis based on the conventional physics of energy-wave-mechanics cannot be applied to super-dense matter.

Eddington points to the initial fallacy in the earlier investigations of white-dwarf matter, which in his view continued to “work devastation in astronomy”. One must admire his genius. Would his new approach to wave mechanics and scale uncertainty have led to the discovery of an alternative for inertia and gravitation?

Not every astronomer thought about this matter as seriously as Eddington. But it is evident that the Sirius system has been the focus of many astronomical observations in the past. And I am sure it will continue to for the simple reason that we just haven’t developed the instruments yet that reveal what its radiating light obscures*.

Yet it is that brilliant light which made possible an exceptional recent astronomical discovery.

I am proudly referring here to the observations made by my father, Karl-Heinz, who began almost two decades ago to meticulously record the transit periods of Sirius. The results are quite astonishing.

But let me tell you first a little bit about my father and how his work also influenced my thinking.

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