Dr Jayant Vishnu Narlikar

  • He was an eminent astrophysicist who challenged the Big Bang theory and collaborated with Fred Hoyle.
  • His most important work was co-working on the Hoyle–Narlikar theory, an alternative to the Big Bang theory. Hoyle and Narlikar’s model offered a universe without a beginning or end. The Hoyle–Narlikar conformal gravity model of the 1960s was against the prevailing Big Bang orthodoxy at that time. Contrary to a universe formed by one explosive burst, their theory allowed for a steady-state universe—a universe that has lived forever with neither a beginning nor an end.
  • Narlikar received Padma Bhushana (1965) and Padma ....
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