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Varying Gravity: Dirac?s Legacy in Cosmology and Geophysics (Science Networks. Historical Studies, 54) Paperback - 2018
by Kragh, Helge
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- Title Varying Gravity: Dirac?s Legacy in Cosmology and Geophysics (Science Networks. Historical Studies, 54)
- Author Kragh, Helge
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 185
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Birkhauser
- Date 2018-03-30
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 3319796151.G
- ISBN 9783319796154 / 3319796151
- Weight 0.63 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.42 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.07 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 510.9
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From the rear cover
The 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.