Word: chandrasekhar
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...CHANDRASEKHAR...
...long will this go on? Ten thousand billion years more, says the University of Chicago's astrophysicist, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, whose book, Principles of Stellar Dynamics, has just been published (University of Chicago Press; $5). Beginning with a compact, enormously dense mass of some eight billion degrees Centigrade (TIME, June 1), the Milky Way galaxy has been expanding for three billion years, will continue to expand for at least 9,997 billion more. By then it should be completely relaxed, the stars will all have the same velocity, and will begin to slip away from the galaxy like molecules...
Stars From An Egg. Chandrasekhar's inspiration was the "expanding universe'' theory of Belgium's Canon Georges Lemaitre, who eleven years ago suggested that all the matter in the universe was once condensed into a single primordial atom-"Lemaitre's egg," as genial scientists call...
Lemaitre's own calculations were rather inconclusive. So now Chandrasekhar's figures are the first impressive support-"in a general way"-for the expanding universe theory. "I believe Canon Lemaitre would be pleased with what I have found," said Chandrasekhar last week. He has not heard from his good friend since the Nazis swept over Louvain University, where the devout theoretical physicist holds the Chair of Relativity...
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ventures no answer to that...