Richard C. Hoagland#Hyperdimensional physics

Hoagland has no education beyond the high school level. According to Hoagland's curriculum vitae, he has no advanced training, schooling, or degrees in any scientific field. Hoagland asserts he was a Curator of Astronomy and Space Science at the Springfield Science Museum, 1964–1967, and assistant director at the Gengras Science CenterThe Children's Museum, formerly The Science Center of Connecticut, is home to the [http://www.thechildrensmuseumct.org/planetarium/about-the-planetarium/ Gengras Planetarium]. in West Hartford, Connecticut, 1967–1968, and was a Science Advisor to CBS News during the Apollo program, 1968–1971. In July 1968, Hoagland filed a copyright registration for a planetarium presentation and show script called The Grand Tour.{{cite book |last=Library of Congress. Copyright Office |title=Dramas and Works Prepared for Oral Delivery |url=https://archive.org/stream/catalogofcop196832234libr#page/108/mode/1up |series=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third Series. Volume 22, Parts 3–4, Number 2 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |location=Washington, D.C. |page=108 |date=July–December 1968 |access-date=November 9, 2012}}

A popular planetarium lecturer at the Springfield Science Museum, Hoagland produced a program called "Mars: Infinity to 1965" to coincide with the Mariners 3 and 4 missions.{{cite news|url=http://www.springfieldjournal.com/archives/8-10-2000/celestialwanderings.html|title=Springfield's Link to the Red Planet|last=Sanderson|first=Richard|date=August 10, 2000|work=Springfield Journal|access-date=November 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021027081148/http://www.springfieldjournal.com/archives/8-10-2000/celestialwanderings.html|archive-date=October 27, 2002|volume=26|issue=3 }} He designed a room with special equipment to display the relative positions of the Earth, Mars, and the Mariners during their trip and thereafter contracted with NASA to relay the pictures of the Martian surface, on a near-live-feed, to the general audience. Hoagland co-hosted a radio program for WTIC (AM) in Hartford, Connecticut, The Night of the Encounter, along with Dick Bertel, covering the July 14, 1965 Mariner 4 flyby of the planet Mars.{{cite web|url=http://www.goldenage-wtic.org/encounter.html|title=The Night of the Encounter|publisher=Goldenage-WTIC.org|access-date=November 17, 2012}} Page includes a half-hour of excerpts from the 1965 WTIC radio program in the MP3 format. Local newspapers had noted the radio broadcast to be history's first laser audio transmission.

In 1976, Hoagland, an avid Star Trek fan, initiated a letter-writing campaign that successfully persuaded President Gerald Ford to name the first Space Shuttle the Enterprise, replacing the previously slated name for the prototype vehicle, Constitution.{{cite web |url=http://www.hq.nasa.gov/oia/nasaonly/itransition/Shuttle_Historic_Facilities_Roll-up_Report.pdf |title=NASA-wide Survey and Evaluation of Historic Facilities in the Context of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program: Roll-Up Report |publisher=Prepared by Archaeological Consultants, Inc. for NASA |location=Washington, D.C. |author1=Deming, Joan |author2=Slovinac, Patricia |author3=Weitze, Karen J. |date=July 2008 |access-date=November 17, 2012 |page=36 |display-authors=2 |archive-date=September 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210923042721/https://www.hq.nasa.gov/oia/nasaonly/itransition/Shuttle_Historic_Facilities_Roll-up_Report.pdf |url-status=dead }} Report cites {{cite book |last=Heppenheimer |first=Tom A. |series=History of the Space Shuttle |title=Development of the Space Shuttle, 1972–1981 |volume=2 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press |location=Washington, D.C. |year=2002 |pages=100–101 |isbn=978-1-58834-009-2}}In {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20120819082709/https://enterprisemission.com/enterpri.html "Why 'Enterprise?'"]}}, The Enterprise Mission credits the 1976 Space Shuttle letter-writing campaign as being "organized by Richard C. Hoagland and a small group of associates, including White House consultant, Jerome Glenn." Glenn is the co-founder and Director of The Millennium Project, a think tank. His [http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/resume/jglenn.html résumé] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131007031704/http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/resume/jglenn.html |date=October 7, 2013 }} posted on his organization's website mentions that he was "instrumental in naming the first Space Shuttle the Enterprise."

Hoagland authored the book The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever (published in 1987) and co-authored the book Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA, which was ranked 21st on November 18, 2007, on The New York Times Best Seller list for paperback nonfiction.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/books/bestseller/1118bestpapernonfiction.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print |title=November 18, 2007: Paperback Nonfiction |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=November 22, 2012 |quote=Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended Nov. 3 ...}} Richard Grossinger, the founder of North Atlantic Books, writes that Monuments became the most successful title published by North Atlantic, and that at its peak the book sold over 2000 copies per month.Grossinger, Richard 2010. [http://www.richardgrossinger.com/2010/03/the-north-atlantic-books-list-2-categories/ The North Atlantic Books List 2: Categories.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200122163641/https://www.richardgrossinger.com/2010/03/the-north-atlantic-books-list-2-categories/ |date=January 22, 2020 }} March 11, 2010. Grossinger also reports that Hoagland wrote much of the book while in Los Angeles County jail.

Hoagland runs the [https://www.enterprisemission.org Enterprise Mission website], and has described the Enterprise Mission as "an independent NASA watchdog and research group ... attempting to figure out how much of what NASA has found in the solar system over the past 50 years has actually been silently filed out of sight as classified material, and therefore totally unknown to the American people."{{cite book |last=Hoagland |first=Richard C. |author2=Bara, Mike |title=Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA |publisher=Feral House |location=Port Townsend |year=2007 |page=I |isbn=978-1-932595-26-0}}; Ibid., 2009, p. 57.

Hoagland appeared regularly as the "Science Advisor" for Coast to Coast AM, a late-night radio talk show, until being replaced by Robert Zimmerman in July 2015.{{cite news |url=http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/hoagland-richard-c/5605 |title=Richard C. Hoagland |work=Coast to Coast AM |access-date=April 11, 2013}}

While Hoagland makes frequent reference to his receipt of the "International Angstrom Medal for Excellence in Science" in August 1993, the organization that awarded the medal, The Angstrom Foundation Aktiebolag, founded by Lars-Jonas Ångström, was not authorized by Uppsala University or the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to make use of the academy's Anders Jonas Ångström memorial medal. The academy has long authorized only Uppsala University to use its medal for the Ångström's Prize (Ångströms premium), awarded yearly by Uppsala professors to physics students. Mr. Ångström stated in May 2000 that although his award to Hoagland was a mistake, he acted with good faith and with good intentions.{{cite web |title=Richard C. Hoagland: Biographical Information |url=http://www.enterprisemission.com/hoagland.html |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130414090313/http://enterprisemission.com/hoagland.html |archive-date=April 14, 2013 |access-date=April 19, 2013 |publisher=The Enterprise Mission}}{{cite web |url=http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/hoagland/credentials.html |title=Richard Hoagland's Credentials |last=Plait |first=Phil |author-link = Phil Plait|year=2008 |work=Bad Astronomy |publisher=badastronomy.com |type=Blog |access-date=April 19, 2013}}

Hoagland claims the source of a so-called NASA "coverup", with relation to the "Face on Mars" and other related structures, is the result of a report commissioned by NASA authored by the Brookings Institution, the so-called Brookings Report. Hoagland claimed that page 216 of the 1960 report, "Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs", instructed NASA to deliberately withhold from the public any evidence it may find of extraterrestrial activity, specifically on the Moon, Mars, or Venus.

Hoagland has also proposed a form of physics he calls "hyperdimensional physics",{{cite web |title=The Enterprise Mission – Physics Lab |url=http://enterprisemissions.com/physics.html |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403063654/http://enterprisemission.com/physics.html |archive-date=April 3, 2013 |access-date=April 11, 2013 |publisher=The Enterprise Mission}} An online repository of "hyperdimensional physics"-related papers.{{cite interview |last1=Hoagland |first1=Richard C. |interviewer=Art Bell |title=Hoagland & Wilcock on Coast to Coast |last2=Wilcock |first2=David |url=http://www.enterprisemission.com/_articles/05-22-2004_Bell_Interviews_123/Bell-InterviewPartOne.htm |access-date=December 6, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203115027/http://www.enterprisemission.com/_articles/05-22-2004_Bell_Interviews_123/Bell-InterviewPartOne.htm |archive-date=December 3, 2007 |work=Coast to Coast AM |url-status=usurped |date=May 15, 2004}} Transcript courtesy of The Enterprise Mission. which he claims represents a more complete implementation of James Clerk Maxwell's original 20 quaternion equations,{{cite web |url=http://www.rexresearch.com/maxwell.htm |title=Maxwell's Quaternion Equations |last=Bearden |first=T. E. |publisher=Rex Research |access-date=April 11, 2013}} instead of the original Maxwell's equations as amended by Oliver Heaviside commonly taught today.See {{section link|Maxwell's equations|Conventional formulation in SI units}} (especially details on Heaviside–Lorentz units) The mainstream physics community rejects these ideas as unfounded.Charles M. Wynn, Arthur W. Wiggins, Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction: Where Real Science Ends... and Pseudoscience begins (Joseph Henry Press, 2001). {{ISBN|0-309-17135-0}}{{cite web|url=https://pseudoastro.wordpress.com/tag/hyperdimensional-physics/ |title=hyperdimensional physics | Exposing PseudoAstronomy |publisher=Pseudoastro.wordpress.com |access-date=2014-07-30}}{{cite web|author=expat |url=http://dorkmission.blogspot.com/2014/03/proposal-for-experiment-to-test.html |title=The Emoluments of Mars: Proposal for an experiment to test "hyperdimensional physics" |publisher=Dorkmission.blogspot.com |date=2014-03-19 |access-date=2014-07-30}}Further proof of the misguided nature of Hoagland's "hyperdimensional physics" is the definitive failure of the WISE mission to find the large trans-Neptunian solar system bodies that Hoagland claimed existed through his theories. URL: http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/no-planet-x/{{cite web |url=http://www.goodmath.org/blog/2010/10/31/free-energy-by-switching-cameras-classic-repost/|title=Free Energy by Switching Cameras (Classic Repost) |last=Chu-Carroll |first=Mark |date=October 31, 2010 |work=Good Math, Bad Math |publisher=Scientopia.org |type=Blog |access-date=10 April 2020}}

Hoagland claims the "Face on Mars" is part of a city built on Cydonia Planitia consisting of colossal pyramids and mounds arranged in a geometric pattern, indicative of an advanced civilization that once existed on Mars.{{cite web |title=Exposing PseudoAstronomy Podcast – Shownotes Episode 59 |url=http://podcast.sjrdesign.net/shownotes_059.php |access-date=2014-07-30 |publisher=Podcast.sjrdesign.net}} His book Dark Mission purports to "carefully document" how "NASA has been quite consciously, deliberately and methodically concealing from the American people and the world for all these years"{{Cite book |last1=Hoagland |first1=Richard C. |title=Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA |last2=Bara |first2=Mike |publisher=Feral House |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-932595-48-2 |edition=Revised and Expanded |location=Port Townsend, WA |pages=57–58}} the "staggering truth ... [that it was not aliens but rather] ... our own ... ancestors ... who [eons ago] lived ... and built ... and walked amid" that city (emphasis in original)Hoagland and Bara (2009), p. 599. — ditto the Moon.Hoagland and Bara (2009), Chapter Four ("The Crystal Towers of the Moon") In the years since its discovery, the "Face" has been near-universally accepted as an optical illusion, an example of the psychological phenomenon of pareidolia.{{cite news |title=Scientist attacks alien claims on Mars |first=Robert Roy |last=Britt |url=http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/03/17/alien.debunk/index.html |agency=Space.com |work=CNN |date=March 18, 2004|access-date=October 12, 2007}}Normand Baillargeon, A Short Course in Intellectual Self Defense: Find Your Inner Chomsky, p. 177 (Seven Stories Press, 2007). {{ISBN|978-1-58322-765-7}} Similar optical illusions can be found in the geology of Earth;{{Skeptoid|id=4097|number=97|title= The Face on Mars Revealed – New high resolution imagery has proven that this hill on Mars doesn't look quite so much like a carved face after all.}} examples include the Old Man of the Mountain, the Pedra da Gávea, and Stac Levenish.{{cite web|url=https://maps.google.com/maps?z=16&ll=50.010083,-110.113006&spn=0.009363,0.020084&t=k&iwloc=addr|title=Badlands Guardian Geological Feature|publisher=Google Maps|access-date=April 26, 2007}} Some astronauts, NASA photo analysts and others have attributed his alleged Moon artifacts to photo processing defects and grainy/fuzzy spots (susceptible to pareidolia) resulting from excessive photo magnification.Leiby, Richard. "[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1996/03/22/stareway-to-heaven/7f7136fb-2d43-4161-a376-88f4864c06d0/ Green Cheese and Baloney: 'Scientists' Say There's More on the Moon Than Meets the Eye]." The Washington Post, March 22, 1996, p. B1 (scan of actual page [https://gpposner.com/Post-article-Hoagland-3.22.96.jpg here]).

Although the Pioneer 10 plaque was designed entirely by Carl Sagan, Linda Salzman Sagan, and Frank Drake,{{cite journal |last=Posner |first=Gary P. |date=November–December 2000 |title=The Face Behind the 'Face' on Mars: A Skeptical Look at Richard C. Hoagland |url=http://www.gpposner.com/Hoagland.html |url-status=live |journal=Skeptical Inquirer |location=Amherst, New York |publisher=Committee for Skeptical Inquiry |volume=24 |issue=6 |pages=20–26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250426054652/https://gpposner.com/Hoagland.html |archive-date=April 26, 2025 |access-date=January 4, 2025}} Hoagland has inaccurately claimed to have co-created the plaque with Eric Burgess, as in 1990 when asserting that "Carl for many years has been taking public credit for the Pioneer plaque which, of course, Eric Burgess and I conceived." Later that year, Hoagland went so far as to claim he designed the plaque when he said, "Carl... was involved with Eric Burgess and me in the design of [the] message." Burgess' account is at odds with Hoagland's design claims, stating that "The design itself was created by Carl Sagan and Frank Drake, with the artistic help of Sagan’s then-wife Linda Salzman Sagan", without mentioning Hoagland at all."[http://thestarsplitter.com/tag/eric-burgess/ The Pioneer Plaque: Our Calling Card to the Cosmos]". The Star Splitter, January 13, 2015 Sagan's correspondence regarding the matter also contradicts Hoagland's claims, specifically saying "he did not contribute one bit of data towards the message design.""[http://www.gpposner.com/Sagan-letter-9.6.90.pdf Sagan's Reply]". Carl Sagan, September 6, 1990. [https://web.archive.org/web/20231106054248/https://www.gpposner.com/Sagan-letter-9.6.90.pdf Archived] from the original on November 6, 2023. Burgess recalls similarly, adding that all Hoagland did concerning the plaque "was support me and say it's a good idea." Yet Hoagland's website continues to credit him as "co-creator of the 'Pioneer Plaque.'""[https://www.enterprisemission.org/ Enterprise Mission]". Richard C. Hoagland. Retrieved February 2, 2025

Many scientists have responded to Hoagland's claims and assertions. Professional astronomer Phil Plait described Hoagland as a pseudoscientist and his claims as ridiculous. Plait has also criticized Hoagland for having no university degree.{{cite web|author= Robert Roy Britt Space.com |url=http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/03/17/alien.debunk/index.html?eref=sitesearch |title=Scientist attacks alien claims on Mars |publisher=CNN |date=2004-03-18 |access-date=2014-07-30}} Prof. Ralph Greenberg asserted that the logic of Hoagland's deductions from the geometry of Cydonia Mensae is flawed and says that he is not a trained scientist in any sense. The claim that the crashing of the Galileo orbiter into Jupiter caused a "mysterious black spot" on the planet has since been disputed by both NASA and Plait. There is photographic evidence that a similar "black spot" was present in imagery of Jupiter taken in 1998. A second image referenced by Plait shows a dark ring that looks similar to the spot Hoagland cited.{{cite web |url=http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01496 |title=PIA01496: Jovian Dark Spot |publisher=NASA |access-date=June 28, 2006}} In 1995, Malin Space Science Systems, NASA prime contractor for planetary imaging, published a paper critiquing claims that the "city" at Cydonia is artificial, the claimed mathematical relationships, and – very specifically – denying any claims about concealing questionable data from the public.{{cite web |url=http://www.msss.com/education/facepage/face_discussion.html |title=Observations of the 'Face on Mars' and similar features by the Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter Camera |last=Malin |first=Michael C. |year=1995 |publisher=Malin Space Science Systems |access-date=April 18, 2013}}

In October 1997, Hoagland received the Ig Nobel Prize for Astronomy "for identifying artificial features on the moon and on Mars, including a human face on Mars and ten-mile-high buildings on the far side of the moon." The prize is given for outlandish or "trivial" contributions to science.

• {{cite book |last=Hoagland |first=Richard C. |title=The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever |edition=5th |publisher=Frog, Ltd. |location=Berkeley |year=2002 |isbn=978-1-58394-054-9}}
• {{cite book |last1=Hoagland |first1=Richard C. |last2=Bara |first2=Mike |title=Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA, Revised and Expanded Edition |publisher=Feral House |location=Port Townsend |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-932595-48-2}}
• {{cite book |last=Hoagland |first=Richard C. |editor=Grossinger, Richard |title=New Horizon ... for a Lost Horizon, chapter in : Pluto: New Horizons for a Lost Horizon |publisher=North Atlantic Books |page=312 |year=2015 |isbn=978-1583948972}}

• {{cite book |last1=Hoagland |first1=Richard C. |last2=Bova |first2=Ben |author-link2=Ben Bova |editor1-last=Bova |editor1-first=Ben |editor2-last=Bell |editor2-first=Trudy E. |others=Chapter by Richard C. Hoagland and Ben Bova |title=Closeup: new worlds |publisher=New York: St. Martin's Press |date=1977 |chapter=The origin of the solar system |isbn=978-0-312-14490-6 |bibcode=1977cnw..book.....B |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/closeupnewworlds0000unse }}
• {{cite book |last1=Haas |first1=George J. |last2=Saunders |first2=William R. |others=Forewords by Mark J. Carlotto and Richard C. Hoagland |title=The Cydonia Codex: Reflections from Mars |year=2005 |publisher=Frog Books |isbn=978-1-58394-121-8}}
• {{cite book |last=NASA |editor-last=Hoagland |editor-first=Richard C. |others=Chapter by Richard C. Hoagland |title=NASA Apollo Spacecraft Lunar Excursion Module News Reference |publisher=Periscope Film LLC |orig-year=1972 |year= 2011 |chapter=The Moon |isbn=978-1-937684-98-3}}

• {{cite video |people=Hoagland, Richard C. (Author (with NASA Lewis Research Center)) |year=1990 |title=Monuments of Mars: City on the Edge of Forever |medium=VHS tape |publisher=NASA Lewis Research Center |location=Cleveland, OH |oclc=23350482}}
• {{cite video |people=Hoagland, Richard C. (Executive Producer, Writer (with Geline, Robert J.)) |year=1992 |title=The Monuments of Mars: A Terrestrial Connection |medium=VHS tape |publisher=BC Video Inc |location=New York |oclc=41520112 }}
• {{cite video |people=Hoagland, Richard C. |year=1996 |title=Hoagland's Mars, Vol. 1, The NASA-Cydonia Briefings |medium=VHS tape |publisher=UFO Central Home Video |location=Venice, CA |oclc=41559991 |quote=Short version, revised and updated}}
• {{cite video |people=Hoagland, Richard C. |year=2008 |title=The Hyperdimensional Election of Barack Obama and 2012 |medium=DVD |publisher=The Enterprise Mission }}
• {{cite video |people=Hoagland, Richard C. (Disk 1: "The Gods of Cydonia: The Case for Ancient Artificial Structures in the Solar System") |year=2005 |title=God, Man and ET: The Question of Other Worlds in Science, Theology, and Mythology |medium=DVD |publisher=Knowledge 2020 Media |location=Venice, CA |oclc=58528205 }}
• Hoagland, Richard C. (March 21, 1990). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwYX3EMrR9g&t=840s Videotaped guest presentation] (untitled) at the NASA Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, about the allegedly artificial "Face" and other "Monuments of Mars"

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• {{cite web |url=http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1043/1 |title=The dark side of space disaster theories |author=Oberg, James |work=The Space Review |date=January 21, 2008 |access-date=November 16, 2012}}
• {{cite web |url=http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/hoagland/index.html |title=Richard Hoagland's Nonsense |last=Plait |first=Phil |year=2008 |work=Bad Astronomy |publisher=badastronomy.com |type=Blog |access-date=November 16, 2012}}
• {{cite web |first1=Ralph |last1=Greenberg |author-link=Ralph Greenberg |author2=Professor of Mathematics |url=http://www.math.washington.edu/~greenber/DMPyramid.html |title=Richard C. Hoagland Index |publisher=Department of Mathematics, University of Washington |date=2004 |access-date=2014-07-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131007150637/http://www.math.washington.edu/~greenber/HoagIndex.html |archive-date=2013-10-07}}
• {{cite web |url=https://www.gpposner.com/Hoagland.html |title=The Face Behind the "Face" on Mars: A Skeptical Look at Richard C. Hoagland |author=Posner, Gary P. |work=Skeptical Inquirer |date=November–December 2000 |access-date=January 4, 2025 |archive-date=April 26, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250426054652/https://gpposner.com/Hoagland.html |url-status=live}}
• Exposing PseudoAstronomy Podcast
• [http://podcast.sjrdesign.net/shownotes_026.php Ep 26: Richard C. Hoagland, Part 1 – 19.5°]
• [http://podcast.sjrdesign.net/shownotes_059.php Ep 59: The Face on Mars, Part 1]
• [http://podcast.sjrdesign.net/shownotes_060.php Ep 60: The Face on Mars, Part 2]
• [http://podcast.sjrdesign.net/shownotes_068.php Ep 68: Expat in Hoaglandia: A Fantasia of NASA Conspiracies]
• [http://podcast.sjrdesign.net/shownotes_072.php Ep 72: Solar System Mysteries "Solved" by PseudoScience, Part 1 – Iapetus]
• [http://podcast.sjrdesign.net/shownotes_079.php Ep 79: Is the Movie "John Carter" a Leak by Those "In the Know?"]
• [http://podcast.sjrdesign.net/shownotes_082.php Ep 82: How to Design a Hyperdimensional Physics Experiment] – Discusses Hoagland's claims about torsion physics and how to test them.
• [http://podcast.sjrdesign.net/shownotes_088.php Ep 88: Is Phobos Hollow?] – Discussion of Richard Hoagland's 2010 claims that the Martian moon Phobos is hollow.

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