For some reason the name Jim Peebles had failed to lodge itself in my memory up till today, in spite of him being a Nobel Prize winner, and a leading cosmological theorist.

Anyway, I liked the quote in his TATE page:

“ Peebles noted that he does not prefer the term “Big Bang Theory”, since “it connotes the notion of an event and a position, both of which are quite wrong.” While much of his work relates to the development of the universe from its first few seconds, he is more skeptical about what we can know about the very beginning, and stated, “It’s very unfortunate that one thinks of the beginning whereas in fact, we have no good theory of such a thing as the beginning.”“

I discovered his name from an article by him in the current (published last Thu.) New Scientist, which is well worth a read for those with access.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24632851-400-why-the-universe-i-invented-is-right-but-still-not-the-final-answer/

In the beginning there was a void, Jim.

Peak Warming Man said:

In the beginning there was a void, Jim.

I think it would be more along the lines of:

Something was happening back there,
but we don’t know what it was, do we?

Mr. Jim.

I remember his coworker John Bam Bam

The Rev Dodgson said:

Peak Warming Man said:

In the beginning there was a void, Jim.

I think it would be more along the lines of:

Something was happening back there,
but we don’t know what it was, do we?

Mr. Jim.

Thin Man

The Rev Dodgson said:

For some reason the name Jim Peebles had failed to lodge itself in my memory up till today, in spite of him being a Nobel Prize winner, and a leading cosmological theorist.

Anyway, I liked the quote in his TATE page:

“ Peebles noted that he does not prefer the term “Big Bang Theory”, since “it connotes the notion of an event and a position, both of which are quite wrong.” While much of his work relates to the development of the universe from its first few seconds, he is more skeptical about what we can know about the very beginning, and stated, “It’s very unfortunate that one thinks of the beginning whereas in fact, we have no good theory of such a thing as the beginning.”“

I discovered his name from an article by him in the current (published last Thu.) New Scientist, which is well worth a read for those with access.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24632851-400-why-the-universe-i-invented-is-right-but-still-not-the-final-answer/

Good point. I, too, find that “the name Jim Peebles had failed to lodge itself in my memory”. I’ve read a cosmology book by him. A good one.

This one, but I read an earlier edition, perhaps the 1993 edition. It’s both informative for the expert and easy to read for the novice.
https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Physical-Cosmology-Phillip-Peebles/dp/0691019339

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

For some reason the name Jim Peebles had failed to lodge itself in my memory up till today, in spite of him being a Nobel Prize winner, and a leading cosmological theorist.

Anyway, I liked the quote in his TATE page:

“ Peebles noted that he does not prefer the term “Big Bang Theory”, since “it connotes the notion of an event and a position, both of which are quite wrong.” While much of his work relates to the development of the universe from its first few seconds, he is more skeptical about what we can know about the very beginning, and stated, “It’s very unfortunate that one thinks of the beginning whereas in fact, we have no good theory of such a thing as the beginning.”“

I discovered his name from an article by him in the current (published last Thu.) New Scientist, which is well worth a read for those with access.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24632851-400-why-the-universe-i-invented-is-right-but-still-not-the-final-answer/

Good point. I, too, find that “the name Jim Peebles had failed to lodge itself in my memory”. I’ve read a cosmology book by him. A good one.

This one, but I read an earlier edition, perhaps the 1993 edition. It’s both informative for the expert and easy to read for the novice.
https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Physical-Cosmology-Phillip-Peebles/dp/0691019339

Thanks moll. Apparently he has a new book out this year as well.

Thanks moll. Apparently he has a new book out this year as well.

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A very thin volume: “Still NFI about the Beginning”

Ian said:

Thanks moll. Apparently he has a new book out this year as well.

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A very thin volume: “Still NFI about the Beginning”

I think it might be a little longer than that:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087893K56/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0