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🎙️ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit — where we unearth the overlooked, dust off the dismissed, and breathe life into brilliance once shelved. This is Weekend Classics, your Saturday sanctuary for stories of science that dared to think differently.
Today, we remember not just a paper, but a man — and an era — that questioned the cosmos itself.
📜 Our episode is titled:
"Three Pathbreaking Papers of 1966 Revisited: Their Relevance to Certain Aspects of Cosmological Creation Today"
🪐 Authored by the late Jayant V. Narlikar, this piece, published in The European Physical Journal H by Springer Nature, takes us back to a time when two scientific minds — Hoyle and Narlikar — stood firm against the tidal wave of Big Bang orthodoxy. It is dated 17 August 2021, but it speaks across time.
👓 Let’s linger for a moment on the man behind these ideas.
Jayant Narlikar wasn’t merely a physicist. He was an architect of intellectual rebellion. A student of Fred Hoyle, a challenger of the singularity, and a builder of India’s cosmological capacity. From the “action at a distance” to the eight-fold path of the IUCAA, Narlikar’s science always bore a spiritual rigor — clear, coherent, and defiantly unfashionable.
He passed away on May 20, 2025, but even now, his questions burn on. ✨
As we revisit these three forgotten papers — matter created not in a bang, but a whisper; a universe not born, but becoming; galaxies not anomalies, but arguments — we must ask:
❓What else have we shelved too soon?
📚 A heartfelt thank you, posthumously, to Prof. Jayant V. Narlikar, and to Springer Nature, for bringing this rediscovery into the light.
🙏 And to our ever-curious listeners:
Don’t forget to subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify, and catch more deep dives on our YouTube channel: Weekend Researcher. We’re also streaming now on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcasts 🎧🍎📺.
👩💼 And a nod to our Editor, the invisible compass behind this journey — weaving rigor with rhythm, and always reminding us that the past is never past when the questions remain unanswered.
So — tune in, turn up, and wonder with us.
Because sometimes, the edge of science…
🕳️ …is just the beginning of a better question.
Reference
Narlikar, J.V. Three Pathbreaking papers of 1966 revisited: their relevance to certain aspects of cosmological creation today. EPJ H 46, 21 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjh/s13129-021-00025-6
Sharma, P. (2025). Jayant Narlikar, visionary astrophysicist and science populariser, dies at 86. Nature India. https://doi.org/10.1038/d44151-025-00092-4
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