Tag: Arthur Eddington
Efforts to Resist the Big Bang and Its Implications for Cosmic Design
Unsurprisingly, many academics have attempted to overturn the conclusion of a beginning through the most creative of means.
The Tip of a Larger Iceberg
Our profound ignorance of what Lucretius termed the nature of things has been revealed by the work of Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and Heisenberg.
My Failed Computer Simulation
I said, “You mean there is a fifth force — why didn’t you say so? Just give me the equations for this force and I will add it to my model.”
Perfect Eclipses: Coincidence or Conspiracy?
Today we celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the solar eclipse that, on May 29, 1919, physicist Arthur Eddington observed, seeking to test the General Theory of Relativity.
Confirming the Big Bang: The Early Decades
Cosmologists have come a long way since Edwin Hubble published that ratty looking plot of galaxy recession velocities versus distance.