Varying Gravity Dirac’s Legacy in Cosmology and Geophysics /

• Main Author: Kragh, Helge (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Science Networks. Historical Studies, 54
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; Cosmology.; Geophysics.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Geophysics and Environmental Physics.

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 scienc...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1.Introductory Issues
• 2.Varying Gravity
• 3.The Expanding Earth
• 4.After Plate Tectonics
• Bibliography
• Index.