Title	Eddington, Ryle and Hoyle: How a major 20th-Century discovery was lost in confusion and noise
Creator	Wall, Jasper
Contributor	Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Date Issued	2010-11-01
Description	Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Physics and Astronomy Department. The Steady-State vs Big-Bang controversy of the 1960s, also known as the source-count controversy, was almost unparalleled in bitterness and rancour. The very personal struggle between Ryle and Hoyle changed the course of the lives of both men. It resulted essentially in the loss from the record of a major cosmological discovery which astronomers and cosmologists finally recognized and revisited far too late. Wall was directly involved in the fight and its resolution, and came to know both Ryle and Hoyle as friends. From this perspective he describes what happened, together with the flow of consequences into current astrophysics and cosmology.
Subject	Astrophysics; Cosmology
Type	Moving Image
Language	eng
Date Available	2011-03-25
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0076603
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/32945
Affiliation	Science, Faculty of; Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Postdoctoral
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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