Fred Hoyle’s Universe: Proceedings of a Conference Celebrating Fred Hoyle’s Extraordinary Contributions to Science 25–26 June 2002 Cardiff University, United KingdomN.C. Wickramasinghe, Geoffrey Burbidge, J.V. Narlikar Springer Science & Business Media, 18 abr 2013 - 328 páginas 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. There are a few people of whom it could be said they changed the way we perceive the world. Galileo Galilei, Nicholas Copernicus and Isaac Newton were amongst these. The inclusion of Fred Hoyle in this elite group may be contentious at the moment for the reason that in challenging the most cherished of Holy Grails in science he unwittingly offended many. But once the dust has settled over the many disputes that were raised and in the fullness of time there can be little doubt that Fred Hoyle will be ranked alongside these figures of history. Hoyle perceived science with an indomitable passion and an obsessive desire to find the truth wherever it lay. His singleness of purpose in this great mission and his deep suspicion of orthodoxy, his powerful intellect and imagination set him apart from most of his contemporaries in the last century. This volume includes papers presented at a commemorative conference held in Cardiff in June 2002. The material divides naturally into several sections: Personal Reminiscences, Stellar Structure and Evolution, Cosmology, Interstellar Matter, Comets and finally Panspermia. Each article pays its own tribute to Fred Hoyle for his inspiration and guidance that led to major breakthroughs in astrophysics and space science throughout the 20th century. |
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FRED HOYLE AND NAVAL RADAR 19415 | 13 |
FRED HOYLE AND THE ANGLOAUSTRALIAN TELESCOPE | 23 |
FRED HOYLE AND MANCHESTER | 29 |
SIR FRED HOYLE MEMORIAL CONFERENCE | 41 |
STELLAR STRUCTURES AND EVOLUTION | 45 |
FREDS CONTRIBUTIONS TO STELLAR EVOLUTION | 47 |
RESEARCH WITH FRED | 171 |
THE DISCOVERY OF MAJOR NEW PHENOMENOLOGY IN SPIRAL DISCS AND ITS THEORETICAL MEANING | 179 |
THE PREHISTORY OF THE STEADY STATE THEORY | 191 |
INTERSTELLAR MATTER | 199 |
INTERSTELLAR MATTER AND STAR FORMATION | 201 |
ELEVATING THE STATUS OF DUST | 217 |
COMETS | 231 |
GIANT COMETS AND HUMAN CULTURE | 233 |
FRED HOYLE RED GIANTS AND BEYOND | 59 |
SOME REMARKS ON SOLAR NEUTRINOS | 61 |
NOVAE AS THERMONUCLEAR LABORATORIES | 73 |
THE EDDINGTON MISSION | 83 |
BLACK HOLE BINARY DYNAMICS | 87 |
COSMOLOGY | 93 |
NUMERICAL COINCIDENCES AND TUNING IN COSMOLOGY | 95 |
WORKING WITH FRED ON ACTION AT A DISTANCE | 109 |
GRAVITY FROM SPACETIME THERMODYNAMICS | 127 |
A STATISTICAL EVALUATION OF ANOMALOUS REDSHIFT CLAIMS | 139 |
REDSHIFT PERIODICITIES THE GALAXYQUASAR CONNECTION | 149 |
AN EXCEPTIONAL COSMIC INFLUENCE AND ITS BEARING ON THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN CULTURE AS EVIDENT IN THE APPARE... | 241 |
PANSPERMIA | 253 |
PANSPERMIA ACCORDING TO HOYLE | 255 |
ASTRONOMY OR BIOLOGY? | 259 |
A BALLOON EXPERIMENT TO DETECT MICROORGANISMS IN THE OUTER SPACE | 275 |
A MICROBIOLOGIST LOOKS AT PANSPERMIA | 283 |
WHAT DARWIN MISSED | 291 |
COSMIC GENES IN THE CRETACEOUSTERTIARY TRANSITION | 307 |
REMEMBERING FRED HOYLE | 313 |
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