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000753749 1001_ $$aKragh, Helge,$$d1944-$$eauthor.
000753749 24510 $$aVarying gravity$$h[electronic resource] :$$bDirac's legacy in cosmology and geophysics /$$cHelge Kragh.
000753749 264_1 $$aCham :$$bBirkhäuser,$$c2016.
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000753749 4901_ $$aScience networks. Historical studies ;$$vvolume 54
000753749 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000753749 5050_ $$aPreface; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introductory Issues; 1.1 The Heavens and the Earth; 1.2 Cosmology, Cosmogony, and Geology; 1.3 Halmś Expanding Earth; Chapter 2: Varying Gravity; 2.1 Big G: The Gravitational Constant; 2.2 Dirac and the Magic of Large Numbers; 2.3 Jordanś Cosmological System; 2.4 ``A Landmark in Human Thought;́́ 2.5 Paleoclimatology Enters Cosmology; 2.6 Offspring of Scalar-Tensor Gravitation Theory; 2.7 A Machian Approach to Fundamental Physics; Chapter 3: The Expanding Earth; 3.1 Drifting Continents and the Expansion Alternative
000753749 5058_ $$a3.2 Pascual Jordan: Geophysicist?3.3 Dicke and the Earth Sciences; 3.4 Egyed and the New Expansion Theory; 3.5 Sympathizers of Expansionism; 3.6 Discussions Pro et contra; Chapter 4: After Plate Tectonics; 4.1 Steady-State Cosmology and the Earth; 4.2 New Creation Cosmologies; 4.3 Testing Varying Gravity; 4.4 Degeneration; 4.5 Two Revolutions in Science; 4.6 Historiographical and Other Perspectives; Bibliography; Index
000753749 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
000753749 520__ $$aThe main focus of this book is on the interconnection of two unorthodox scientific ideas, the varying-gravity hypothesis and the expanding-earth hypothesis. As such, it provides a fascinating insight into a nearly forgotten chapter in both the history of cosmology and the history of the earth sciences. The hypothesis that the force of gravity decreases over cosmic time was first proposed by Paul Dirac in 1937. In this book the author examines in detail the historical development of Dirac's hypothesis and its consequences for the structure and history of the earth, the most important of which was that the earth must have been smaller in the past.
000753749 588__ $$aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (viewed February 15, 2016)
000753749 60010 $$aDirac, P. A. M.$$q(Paul Adrien Maurice),$$d1902-1984.
000753749 650_0 $$aCosmology.
000753749 650_0 $$aGeophysics.
000753749 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aKragh, Helge$$tVarying Gravity : Dirac's Legacy in Cosmology and Geophysics$$dCham : Springer International Publishing,c2016$$z9783319243771
000753749 830_0 $$aScience networks historical studies ;$$vvolume 54.
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