I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.

In the 1970s and 1980s Gold was a vocal critic of NASA's Space Shuttle program deriding claims that the agency could fly 50 missions a year or that it could have low budget costs. I was certainly regarded as persona non grata with NASA after that. (1962) "The Arrow of Time" American Journal of Physics 30 (6): 403–410 Bibcode:1962AmJPh.

Gold was one of three young Cambridge scientists who in the 1950s proposed the now mostly abandoned 'steady state' hypothesis of the universe. S.