R.I.P. Jayant Narlikar (1938-7-19 -- 2025-5-20)

[RedshiftDrift]

Sad news
https://telescoper.blog/2025/05/20/r-i-p-jayant-narlikar/

"Although he never really abandoned the Steady State cosmology, despite the weight of evidence in favour of the Big Bang, it is to Narlikar’s great credit that he didn’t try to impose his own scientific ideas on those working at IUCAA."

[HanDeBruijn]

Without Jayant Narlikar, the Variable Mass Theory - and my version of it - would be unthinkable. So I have mentioned his name a lot in threads on this forum: 63 , 63 , 72 , 96 , 96 , 102 , 108 , 122 , 126 , 127 , 141 , 141 , 160 , 160 , 178 , 208 , 225 , 228 , 235 , 243 , 250 , 250 , 262 , 265 , 275 , 276 , 276 , 314 . May his name not be forgotten.

[OlliSant]

Steady State and no expansion, so the creation of matter is not needed. The expansion is not an observations, not prooved, not a fact.