Cosmic rays and cosmological speculations in the 1920s

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Jul 1988

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Presented at the International Symposium on Modern Cosmology in Retrospect, Bologna, Italy, 20-23 May 1988

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmic Rays, Cosmology, Culture (Social Sciences), Histories, Scientists, Social Factors, Astrophysics, Thermodynamics

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A controversy which opposed the American physicist Millikan to the English scientist Jeans is discussed. It is an interesting aspect of a debate about the cultural and social value of science which shook the scientific comunity as well as the public. Ideological and religious belief concurred with Millikan's scientific work in designing this unified perspective. This American optimism and progressive ideology of science clashed with Jeans' and Eddington's claim of the cosmological validity of the second law of thermodynamics.

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