Jayant Narlikar Scientist

Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (born 19 July 1938) is an Indian astrophysicist.Narlikar is a proponent of steady state cosmology. He developed with Sir Fred Hoyle the conformal gravity theory, commonly known as Hoyle–Narlikar theory. It synthesises Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity and Mach's Principle. It proposes that the inertial mass of a particle is a function of the masses of all other particles, multiplied by a coupling constant, which is a function of cosmic epoch. In cosmologies based on this theory, the gravitational constant G decreases strongly with time.

Personal facts

Birth date	July 19, 1938
Birth place	India , Kolhapur
Nationality	Indian people
Residence	India , Pune
Education	Banaras Hindu University University of Cambridge
Known for	Hoyle–Narlikar theory of gravity Steady State theory