A Different Approach to Cosmology: From a Static Universe through the Big Bang towards Reality
Hoyle, F.; Burbidge, G.; Narlikar, J. V.
Language: English
Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000
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- Title
- A Different Approach to Cosmology: From a Static Universe through the Big Bang towards Reality
- Author
- Hoyle, F.; Burbidge, G.; Narlikar, J. V.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0521662230
- ISBN 13
- 9780521662239
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Review
'Throughout the last few decades, Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Burbidge and Jayant Narlikar have done the cosmology community a great service by developing and defending a serious alternative to Big bang models of cosmic origins. A Different Approach to Cosmology is a summary of their work ... by elucidating one of the hot Big Bang's competitors, the authors provide a good educational exercise for any graduate student interested in fundamental cosmology.' David W. Hogg and Matias Zaldarriaga, Science
'... this book ... will help [younger cosmologists] to understand how Hoyle and others started to consider some bold and relevant cosmological ideas long before anyone else and to give credit where it is due.' Roger Blandford, The Times Higher Education Supplement
'Fred Hoyle is one of the most famous living astronomers in Britain. This is not only because he wrote excellent popular books and gave inspirational radio broadcasts, but also because of a wilful determination to court controversy, pronouncing on viruses from space, or airing allegations about faked fossils. But it is astrophysics and cosmology for which he was first known. He made fundamental contributions to astrophysics ... Hoyle also played a prominent role in the development of the steady state theory ... he has teamed up with two erstwhile colleagues to review the field in which he cut his scientific teeth.' New Scientist
'This tome is the book of the year. The three very well-known authors, three who have stuck together through many a stiff cosmological controversy, put their case for a 'different' type of cosmological interpretation of observational 'facts'. Their concluding chapter is realism indeed.' Irish Astronomical Journal
'... there is much in here to enthral and fascinate.' Stuart Clark, Journal of the British Astronomical Association
'... I recommend this book highly not only to beginners, but even more so to the experts. if we were not willing to listen to Hoyle, Burbidge, and Narlikar, whom else should we trust?' Wolfgang Kundt, General Relativity and Gravitation
'... one of the clearest accounts I have yet encountered of the history of mainstream modern cosmology ... this is a fascinating book, expressing the views of three scientists who choose to go against the conventional cosmological wisdom. It is extremely important for such skepticism to exist and for such books to be written.' Mario Livio, Physics Today
'[I] warmly recommend it to anyone with a deep interest in cosmology.' Neil English, Astronomy Now
'Writing from the heart, with passion and punch, these three cosmologists make a powerful case for viewing the universe in a different light.' Europe & Astronomy
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