Ebook: Fred Hoyle’s Universe: Proceedings of a Conference Celebrating Fred Hoyle’s Extraordinary Contributions to Science 25–26 June 2002 Cardiff University, United Kingdom

This volume contains papers presented at an international conference to celebrate Fred Hoyle's monumental contributions to astronomy, astrophysics and astrobiology and more generally to humanity and culture. The contributed articles highlight the important aspects of his scientific life and show how much of an example and inspiration he has been for over three generations in the 20th century.

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This volume contains papers presented at an international conference to celebrate Fred Hoyle's monumental contributions to astronomy, astrophysics and astrobiology and more generally to humanity and culture. The contributed articles highlight the important aspects of his scientific life and show how much of an example and inspiration he has been for over three generations in the 20th century.

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This volume contains papers presented at an international conference to celebrate Fred Hoyle's monumental contributions to astronomy, astrophysics and astrobiology and more generally to humanity and culture. The contributed articles highlight the important aspects of his scientific life and show how much of an example and inspiration he has been for over three generations in the 20th century.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-1
Fred Hoyle’s Universe....Pages 3-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Working with Fred (1942–49)....Pages 9-12
Fred Hoyle and Naval Radar 1941–5....Pages 13-22
Fred Hoyle and the Anglo-Australian Telescope....Pages 23-27
Fred Hoyle and Manchester....Pages 29-39
Meeting with a Remarkable Man: Sir Fred Hoyle Memorial Conference....Pages 41-43
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Fred’s Contributions to Stellar Evolution....Pages 47-57
Fred Hoyle, Red Giants and Beyond....Pages 59-59
Some Remarks on Solar Neutrinos....Pages 61-71
Novae as Thermonuclear Laboratories....Pages 73-81
The Eddington Mission....Pages 83-86
Black Hole Binary Dynamics....Pages 87-92
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Numerical Coincidences and ‘Tuning’ in Cosmology....Pages 95-108
Working with Fred on Action at a Distance....Pages 109-125
Gravity from Spacetime Thermodynamics....Pages 127-137
A Statistical Evaluation of Anomalous Redshift Claims....Pages 139-147
Redshift Periodicities, the Galaxy-Quasar Connection....Pages 149-169
Research with Fred....Pages 171-177
The Discovery of Major New Phenomenology in Spiral Discs and Its Theoretical Meaning....Pages 179-190
The Prehistory of the Steady State Theory....Pages 191-197
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Interstellar Matter and Star Formation....Pages 201-215
Elevating the Status of Dust....Pages 217-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Giant Comets and Human Culture....Pages 233-240
An Exceptional Cosmic Influence and Its Bearing on the Evolution of Human Culture as Evident in the Apparent Early Development of Mathematics and Astronomy....Pages 241-252
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
Panspermia According to Hoyle....Pages 255-258
Astronomy or Biology?....Pages 259-274
A Balloon Experiment to Detect Microorganisms in the Outer Space....Pages 275-282
A Microbiologist Looks at Panspermia....Pages 283-290
What Darwin Missed....Pages 291-305
Cosmic Genes in the Cretaceous-Tertiary Transition....Pages 307-312
Remembering Fred Hoyle....Pages 313-328

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This volume contains papers presented at an international conference to celebrate Fred Hoyle's monumental contributions to astronomy, astrophysics and astrobiology and more generally to humanity and culture. The contributed articles highlight the important aspects of his scientific life and show how much of an example and inspiration he has been for over three generations in the 20th century.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-1
Fred Hoyle’s Universe....Pages 3-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Working with Fred (1942–49)....Pages 9-12
Fred Hoyle and Naval Radar 1941–5....Pages 13-22
Fred Hoyle and the Anglo-Australian Telescope....Pages 23-27
Fred Hoyle and Manchester....Pages 29-39
Meeting with a Remarkable Man: Sir Fred Hoyle Memorial Conference....Pages 41-43
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Fred’s Contributions to Stellar Evolution....Pages 47-57
Fred Hoyle, Red Giants and Beyond....Pages 59-59
Some Remarks on Solar Neutrinos....Pages 61-71
Novae as Thermonuclear Laboratories....Pages 73-81
The Eddington Mission....Pages 83-86
Black Hole Binary Dynamics....Pages 87-92
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Numerical Coincidences and ‘Tuning’ in Cosmology....Pages 95-108
Working with Fred on Action at a Distance....Pages 109-125
Gravity from Spacetime Thermodynamics....Pages 127-137
A Statistical Evaluation of Anomalous Redshift Claims....Pages 139-147
Redshift Periodicities, the Galaxy-Quasar Connection....Pages 149-169
Research with Fred....Pages 171-177
The Discovery of Major New Phenomenology in Spiral Discs and Its Theoretical Meaning....Pages 179-190
The Prehistory of the Steady State Theory....Pages 191-197
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Interstellar Matter and Star Formation....Pages 201-215
Elevating the Status of Dust....Pages 217-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Giant Comets and Human Culture....Pages 233-240
An Exceptional Cosmic Influence and Its Bearing on the Evolution of Human Culture as Evident in the Apparent Early Development of Mathematics and Astronomy....Pages 241-252
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
Panspermia According to Hoyle....Pages 255-258
Astronomy or Biology?....Pages 259-274
A Balloon Experiment to Detect Microorganisms in the Outer Space....Pages 275-282
A Microbiologist Looks at Panspermia....Pages 283-290
What Darwin Missed....Pages 291-305
Cosmic Genes in the Cretaceous-Tertiary Transition....Pages 307-312
Remembering Fred Hoyle....Pages 313-328
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