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Prashad posted:
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:
D2 posted:
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

An amazing human being was he.  I don't know how a person who was confined to a wheel chair could have known so much about the world that we live in. Sometimes I want to think there is some sort of divine power present in people like this great physicist. I took one class in physics and astronomy.  Physics is not for me. Astronomy is much easier and interesting. Men like are truly gifted. 

cant speak of astronomy without physics.

I know that. When an astronomer speaks of the distance of a hundred thousand light years across the Andromeda Galaxy one must have a little knowledge of physics to understand what it means. 

A relative of mine whose husband (Guyanese) studied physics at the college of London in the early sixties told me about a Guyanese physicist by the name of Dr. Chandra who tried to prove that a spinning top defies Newton's law of inertia. This is what he said. I don't know if it has any merit to it. 

There was a famous Indian scientist called Dr Chandra. NASA named an xray telescope after him. Is that the Man?

Definitely not. This scientist is comparable to Hawkins in many ways. His name is chandrasekhar and was monumental in his ideas about the life cycle of stars. He also give us the idea of orbital limits and where a satellite would simply be crushed gravity.  It tells us the distance when  spaghettization begins  around black holes

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