Joseph Silk

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Joseph Silk (born 3 December 1942) is an English-born astronomer who graduated from Clare College, Cambridge, England in 1963 (BA Mathematics); He initially researched astrophysics under Sir Bernard Lovell at Jodrell Bank, near Manchester, England, before moving to the United States. He completed his doctorate at Harvard (Ph.D. in Astronomy 1968). Professor Silk took up his first post at Berkeley in 1970, and the Chair in Astronomy in 1978. He is now the Savilian Chair of Astronomy at the University of Oxford, a post which he took up on 1 January 1999.

Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Infinite Cosmos ISBN: 978-0199533619 1.2 The Dark Side of the Universe[1] 2 References 3 External links

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• The left hand of creation
  • Title of book

[edit] The Infinite Cosmos ISBN: 978-0199533619

• The Infinite has to be a relative concept. Go any distance: an infinite space means that there is more to be explored.
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• Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke.
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[edit] The Dark Side of the Universe^[1]

• Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.
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• The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constiture part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.
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• Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics.
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• One can always find inflationary models to explain whatever phenomenon is represented by the flavour of the month.
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• Nowadays, cosmology seems rather unexciting.
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[edit] References

1. ↑ Article in "Astronomy and Geophysics", April 2007, pages 2.30-2.38

[edit] External links