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Chai took longer: Why Jayant Vishnu Narlikar questioned the Big Bang theory | – The Times of India

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On Monday, after news broke of the death of renowned astrophysicist Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, author Manu Joseph shared a striking memory. Narlikar, known for questioning the Big Bang theory, once told him, “Chai took longer.” It was the second-most interesting tea-related analogy about the universe since Russell’s teapot, which sought to shift the burden of…

Jayant Narlikar educational qualifications: The Indian astrophysicist who went from Varanasi to Cambridge and beyond the Big Bang – Times of India

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From classrooms in Varanasi to reshaping ideas in cosmology, Jayant Narlikar‘s journey remains a shining example of scientific integrity and vision. Jayant Vishnu Narlikarwas born on July 19, 1938, in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, into a deeply academic household. His father, Vishnu Vasudev Narlikar, was a prominent mathematician and physicist, and a professor at Banaras Hindu University…