Fred Hoyle S Universe

Author : Jane Gregory
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780198507918

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Fred Hoyle's Universe by Jane Gregory Pdf

Fred Hoyle was one of the most widely acclaimed and colourful scientists of the twentieth century, a down-to-earth Yorkshireman who combined a brilliant scientific mind with a relish for communication and controversy.Best known for his steady-state theory of cosmology, he described a universe with both an infinite past and an infinite future. He coined the phrase 'big bang' to describe the main competing theory, and sustained a long-running, sometimes ill-tempered, and typically public debate with his scientific rivals. He showed how the elements are formed by nuclear reactions inside stars, and explained how we are therefore all formed from stardust. He also claimed that diseases fall from the sky,attacked Darwinism, and branded the famous fossil of the feathered Archaeopteryx a fake.Throughout his career, Hoyle played a major role in the popularization of science. Through his radio broadcasts and his highly successful science fiction novels he became a household name, though his outspokenness and support for increasingly outlandish causes later in life at times antagonized the scientific community.Jane Gregory builds up a vivid picture of Hoyle's role in the ideas, the organization, and the popularization of astronomy in post-war Britain, and provides a fascinating examination of the relationship between a maverick scientist, the scientific establishment, and the public. Through the life of Hoyle, this book chronicles the triumphs, jealousies, rewards, and feuds of a rapidly developing scientific field, in a narrative animated by a cast of colourful astronomers, keeping secrets, losingtheir tempers, and building their careers here on Earth while contemplating the nature of the stars.

Author : N.C. Wickramasinghe,Geoffrey Burbidge,J.V. Narlikar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1402014155

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Fred Hoyle’s Universe by N.C. Wickramasinghe,Geoffrey Burbidge,J.V. Narlikar Pdf

Proceedings of a Conference celebrating Fred Hoyle's Extraordinary Contribution to Science, 25-26 June 2002, Cardiff University, UK

Author : N.C. Wickramasinghe,Geoffrey Burbidge,J.V. Narlikar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401716055

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Fred Hoyle’s Universe by N.C. Wickramasinghe,Geoffrey Burbidge,J.V. Narlikar Pdf

This volume contains papers presented at an international conference to celebrate Fred Hoyle's monumental contributions to astronomy, astrophysics and astrobiology and more generally to humanity and culture. The contributed articles highlight the important aspects of his scientific life and show how much of an example and inspiration he has been for over three generations in the 20th century.

Author : Fred Hoyle
Publisher : Michael Joseph
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : OSU:32435002715472

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The Intelligent Universe by Fred Hoyle Pdf

Author : F. Hoyle,G. Burbidge,J. V. Narlikar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000-02-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521662230

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A Different Approach to Cosmology by F. Hoyle,G. Burbidge,J. V. Narlikar Pdf

This is a different kind of book about cosmology, a field of major interest to professional astronomers, physicists, and the general public. All research in cosmology adopts one model of the universe, the hot big bang model. But Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Burbidge and Jayant Narlikar take a different approach. Starting with the beginnings of modern cosmology, they then conduct a wide ranging and deep review of the observations made from 1945 to the present day. Here they challenge many conventional interpretations. The latter part of the book presents the authors' own account of the present status of observations and how they should be explained. The controversial theme is that the dependency on the hot big bang model has led to an unwarranted rejection of alternative cosmological models. Writing from the heart, with passion and punch, these three cosmologists make a powerful case for viewing the universe in a different light.

Author : D. O. Gough
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521824486

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The Scientific Legacy of Fred Hoyle by D. O. Gough Pdf

This book looks at the influence Fred Hoyle's research has had on advances in astronomy and cosmology.

Author : FRED HOYLE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE by FRED HOYLE Pdf

Author : Simon Mitton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139495950

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Fred Hoyle by Simon Mitton Pdf

The scientific life of Fred Hoyle (1915–2001) was truly unparalleled. During his career he wrote groundbreaking scientific papers and caused bitter disputes in the scientific community with his revolutionary theories. Hoyle is best known for showing that we are all, literally, made of stardust in his paper explaining how carbon, and then all the heavier elements, were created by nuclear reactions inside stars. However, he constantly courted controversy and two years later he followed this with his 'steady state' theory of the universe. This challenged another model of the universe, which Hoyle called the 'big bang' theory. Fred Hoyle was also famous amongst the general public. He popularised his research through radio and television broadcasts and wrote best-selling novels. Written from personal accounts and interviews with Hoyle's contemporaries, this book gives valuable personal insights into Fred Hoyle and his unforgettable life.

Author : Fred Hoyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : UCAL:B4399155

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The Nature of the Universe by Fred Hoyle Pdf

The Nature of the Universe, containing an early use of the "big bang" expression, is derived from a series of radio broadcast lectures on astronomy for the BBC.

Author : Paul Halpern
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781541673618

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Flashes of Creation by Paul Halpern Pdf

A respected physics professor and author breaks down the great debate over the Big Bang and the continuing quest to understand the fate of the universe. Today, the Big Bang is so entrenched in our understanding of the cosmos that to doubt it would seem crazy. But as Paul Halpern shows in Flashes of Creation, just decades ago its mere mention caused sparks to fly. At the center of the debate were Russian American physicist George Gamow and British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle. Gamow insisted that a fiery explosion explained how the elements of the universe were created. Attacking the idea as half-baked, Hoyle countered that the universe was engaged in a never-ending process of creation. The battle was fierce. In the end, Gamow turned out to be right -- mostly -- and Hoyle, along with his many achievements, is remembered for giving the theory the silliest possible name: "The Big Bang." Halpern captures the brilliance of both thinkers and reminds us that even those proved wrong have much to teach us about boldness, imagination, and the universe itself.

Author : Fred Hoyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Cosmology
ISBN : 1559210834

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The Origin of the Universe and the Origin of Religion by Fred Hoyle Pdf

World-renowned astrophysicist and cosmologist, Sir Fred Hoyle, presents his fascinating and controversial giant comet theory on the origins and continuing development of the universe. "For those who enjoy being challenged by new and often provocative ideas, this is an ideal book...Sir Fred Hoyle is an uninhibited fountain of new ideas, arguing in this book that the great epochal events and myths of history were caused by cometary showers. In this book Hoyle sets forth his ideas with charm and humor. One may not always agree, but one cannot but be thoroughly stimulated." -Walter Sullivan

Author : Fred Hoyle
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141967493

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The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle Pdf

A 1959 classic 'hard' science-fiction novel by renowned Cambridge astronomer and cosmologist Fred Hoyle. Tracks the progress of a giant black cloud that comes towards Earth and sits in front of the sun, causing widespread panic and death. A select group of scientists and astronomers - including the dignified Astronomer Royal, the pipe smoking Dr Marlowe and the maverick, eccentric Professor Kingsly - engage in a mad race to understand and communicate with the cloud, battling against trigger happy politicians. In the pacy, engaging style of John Wyndham and John Christopher, with plenty of hard science thrown in to add to the chillingly credible premise (he manages to foretell Artificial Intelligence, Optical Character Recognition and Text-to-Speech converters), Hoyle carries you breathlessly through to its thrilling end.

Author : Mario Livio
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439192375

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Brilliant Blunders by Mario Livio Pdf

"Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe"--

Author : Chandra Wickramasinghe
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789814436137

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A Journey with Fred Hoyle by Chandra Wickramasinghe Pdf

This is the story of the author''s unique scientific journey with one of the most remarkable men of 20th century science. The journey begins in Sri Lanka, the author''s native country, with his childhood acquaintance with Fred Hoyle''s writings. The action then moves to Cambridge, where the famous HoyleOCoWickramasinghe collaborations begin. A research programme which was started in 1962 on the carbonaceous nature of interstellar dust leads, over the next two decades, to developments that are continued in both Cambridge and Cardiff. These developments prompt Hoyle and the author to postulate the organic theory of cosmic dust (which is now generally accepted), and then to challenge one of the most cherished paradigms of contemporary science OCo the theory that life originated on Earth in a warm primordial soup.This new edition examines the many scientific developments that have transpired since the first edition was published. The discovery of bacteria in the upper reaches of the atmosphere, biological signatures in meteorites, spectroscopy of high-z galaxies and more all mesh with many of the ideas that had their origin in the first edition. Pushing into the future, the updated text examines the many experiments and probes currently operating or planned that will shed more light on the theory of planetary panspermia. A Journey with Fred Hoyle is an intriguing book that delineates the progress of a collaboration spanning 40 years, through a sequence of personal reflections, anecdotes and reminiscences.

Author : Helge Kragh
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691227719

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Cosmology and Controversy by Helge Kragh Pdf

For over three millennia, most people could understand the universe only in terms of myth, religion, and philosophy. Between 1920 and 1970, cosmology transformed into a branch of physics. With this remarkably rapid change came a theory that would finally lend empirical support to many long-held beliefs about the origins and development of the entire universe: the theory of the big bang. In this book, Helge Kragh presents the development of scientific cosmology for the first time as a historical event, one that embroiled many famous scientists in a controversy over the very notion of an evolving universe with a beginning in time. In rich detail he examines how the big-bang theory drew inspiration from and eventually triumphed over rival views, mainly the steady-state theory and its concept of a stationary universe of infinite age. In the 1920s, Alexander Friedmann and Georges Lemaître showed that Einstein's general relativity equations possessed solutions for a universe expanding in time. Kragh follows the story from here, showing how the big-bang theory evolved, from Edwin Hubble's observation that most galaxies are receding from us, to the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Sir Fred Hoyle proposed instead the steady-state theory, a model of dynamic equilibrium involving the continuous creation of matter throughout the universe. Although today it is generally accepted that the universe started some ten billion years ago in a big bang, many readers may not fully realize that this standard view owed much of its formation to the steady-state theory. By exploring the similarities and tensions between the theories, Kragh provides the reader with indispensable background for understanding much of today's commentary about our universe.