Biography jayant narlikar and his works
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Jayant Narlikar
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Introduction
Indian astronomer Jayant Vishnu Narlikar fryst vatten a retired professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA).
He and Sir Fred Hoyle developed the conformal gravity hypothesis, popularly known as the Hoyle-Narlikar theory. It combines Mach's principle and Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. According to this theory, a particle's inertial mass fryst vatten a function of its own mass plus the masses of all other particles multiplied by a coupling constant that depends on the cosmic epoch.
His Early Life
Jayant Narlikar was born on July 19, 1938, in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, and was raised in Varanasi at his uncle's house. He comes from a family of mathematicians. His maternal uncle was the renowned statistician V. S. Huzurbazar. Narlikar's father, Vishnu Vasudev Narlikar, was a mathematician as well as a theoretical physicist who worked as a professor and the head of the department of mathematics at Banaras Hindu Univ
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Jayant Narlikar
Indian physicist and author
Jayant Vishnu NarlikarFNA, FASc, FTWAS (born 19 July 1938) is an Indian astrophysicist and emeritus professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA).[1] He developed with Sir Fred Hoyle the conformal gravity theory, known as Hoyle–Narlikar theory. It synthesises Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Mach's principle. It proposes that the inertial mass of a particle is a function of the masses of all other particles, multiplied by a coupling constant, which is a function of cosmic epoch.
Early life
[edit]Narlikar was born in Kolhapur, India, on 19 July 1938, into a family of scholars. His father, Vishnu Vasudev Narlikar, was a mathematician and theoretical physicist who served as Professor and Head of Department of Mathematics at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, and mother, Sumati Narlikar, was a scholar of Sanskrit. His wife was mathematician Mangala Narlikar and they have three d
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Jayant Narlikar's Blog
Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (born 19 July 1938) is an Indian astrophysicist, Padma Vibhushan awardee, emeritus professor and founding director at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA). He developed with Sir Fred Hoyle the conformal gravity theory, known as Hoyle–Narlikar theory. Apart from his scientific research, Narlikar is known as a communicator of science through his Astrophysics textbooks, science fiction novels, articles, radio and television programs.
This blog of articles on miscellaneous topics written by Prof Narlikar is edited and published by his grandson Sharad Parulekar.
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