Chess-playing armchair cosmologists

Helbig, Phillip

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Chess-playing armchair cosmologists

Helbig, Phillip

2020 • In The Observatory, 140 (1276), p. 94-98

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Keywords :

astronomy: general; cosmology: miscellaneous; Martin Rees

Abstract :

[en] An enjoyable lecture, perhaps even with a reference to Lewis Carroll. Some questions indicate there there was some confusion, which I hope to clear up with some references.

Disciplines :

Space science, astronomy & astrophysics

Author, co-author :

Helbig, Phillip ; Université de Liège - ULiège > STAR

Language :

English

Title :

Chess-playing armchair cosmologists

Publication date :

01 June 2020

Journal title :

The Observatory

ISSN :

0029-7704

Publisher :

The Editors, Wantage, United Kingdom

Volume :

140

Issue :

1276

Pages :

94-98

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

Additional URL :

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020Obs...140...94H/abstract

Commentary :

Some comments on Martin Rees's 2019 Gerald Whitrow lecture and on some comments on comments on it by a member of the audience.

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