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Varying gravity. Dirac's legacy in cosmology and geophysics

By Dirac , Helge , Paul Adrien Maurice; Kragh

Book information

Publisher
Birkhäuser
Year
2016
ISBN
3319243772, 978-3-319-24377-1, 978-3-319-24379-5, 3319243799, 113-113-123-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1890783 bytes)
Series
Science networks historical studies volume 54
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
185\197
Library
kolxoz
Time added
2017-10-15 16:00:00
-- 1902-1984;Cosmology;Geophysics;SCIENCE / AstronDiracP. A. M. -- (Paul Adrien Maurice)

Description

The main focus of this book is on the interconnection of two unorthodox scientific ideas, the varying-gravity hypothesis and the expanding-earth hypothesis. As such, it provides a fascinating insight into a nearly forgotten chapter in both the history of cosmology and the history of the earth sciences. The hypothesis that the force of gravity decreases over cosmic time was first proposed by Paul Dirac in 1937. In this book the author examines in detail the historical development of Dirac’s hypothesis and its consequences for the structure and history of the earth, the most important of which was that the earth must have been smaller in the past. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introductory Issues....Pages 1-14 Varying Gravity....Pages 15-58 The Expanding Earth....Pages 59-112 After Plate Tectonics....Pages 113-162 Back Matter....Pages 163-185

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