RIP Jayant Narlikar (1938-2025)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayant_Narlikar

https://www.nature.com/articles/d44151-025-00092-4

Jayant Narlikar, visionary astrophysicist and science populariser, dies at 86​

He challenged the Big Bang, co-developed an alternative cosmology, built India’s premier astrophysics institutions and brought the universe into the classroom
- 20 May 2025

(2021) In conversation with Prof. Jayant V. Narlikar


Walk The Talk With Renowned Astrophysicist Professor Jayant Narlikar
https://www.ndtv.com/video/walk-the...trophysicist-professor-jayant-narlikar-372830

(2019) How well do we know our universe? by Jayant Narlikar

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(2025) Exploring the Legacy of Dr. Jayant Narlikar | PIC | 31st May 2025



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyle–Narlikar_theory_of_gravity

A New Theory of Gravitation
Hoyle, F. ; Narlikar, J. V.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Volume 282, Issue 1389, pp. 191-207
November 1964
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1964.0227

 

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It's sad to learn of another great scientist passing the torch.

The Big Bang theorists have won out over Hoyle's and Narlikar's steady state universe theory.

But it survives as a historically important alternative cosmology and as an inspiration for exploring modifications of gravity.