Conveners
W1-6 Cosmology in the Past Century I (DHP) / Cosmologie au siècle précédent I (DHP)
- Louis Marchildon (Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres)
Prof.
James Peebles
(Princeton University)
09/06/2021, 11:45
History of Physics / Histoire de la physique (DHP)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)
When an interesting idea appears in natural science there is a good chance that someone else has already thought of it, independently, or will think of it if news does not travel fast enough. Sociologists recognize this as a phenomenon that has something to teach us about the nature of research in science. I will offer examples to be found in the discovery of the idea of the hot big bang cosmology.
