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Hoyle/Box 50/1/13
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GB 275 Hoyle/Box 50/1/13
Title
Photocopy of autograph letter, signed, from Jayant Narlikar to Dr Shallis
Date(s)
- 5 Mar 1984 (Creation)
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1p paper
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Thanks Shallis for his defence of FH. Understands current hostility to FH, but thinks the 'real damage' happens later, as did with FH and Narlikar's theory of the creation of baryons. This was ignored in the 1960s, but now is reappearing in new guises, but with no reference to FH or Narlikar. Worries that the same will happen to FH and Wickramasinghe's current theories if it is later found that life does have an extra-terrestrial origin.