Edward Arthur Milne

Edward Arthur Milne ( born February 14, 1896 in Hull, Yorkshire, † September 21, 1950 in Dublin ) was an English mathematician and astrophysicist.

He studied at Trinity College ( Cambridge ), where he was also a 1919-1925 Fellow. 1924-1928 he was Professor of Applied Mathematics at Victoria University (Manchester). In 1935 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. 1941, the Royal Medal of the Royal Society awarded him. 1943 to 1945 he was president of the Royal Astronomical Society. According to Milne, a lunar crater is named.

Milne developed a theory of the expanding universe way, using only the special theory of relativity. He went out of the homogeneity and isotropy of the universe, according to which the universe in the middle appears the same for each observer. In 1933 he expressed this explicitly as Cosmological Principle.

Due to the factual uniqueness of our universe practiced Milne methodological critique of the general theory of relativity, as they can contain a large number of cosmological models. In relativistic physics of local laws that are found in laboratory physics, closed to the global whole of the universe by looking for the suitable beginning - is asked and boundary conditions. After Milne but must be assumed from our unique, factual universe, to win by deductive derivation of the local laws. Therefore be consistent only with a single model according to Milne cosmological theory. Such a model is also easier falsifiable, while general relativistic models ultimately not even falsifiable as they comply with local laws (which can be confirmed by repeatable laboratory experiments as often ), an experimental test of the cosmological framework but due to the uniqueness of the universe it is not possible, since it is not as often as desired in the laboratory is präparierbar.

Works

  • Thermodynamics of the Stars (1930 )
  • The White Dwarf Stars (1932 )
  • Relativity, Gravitation and World - Structure (1935 )
  • Kinematic Relativity (1948 )
  • Modern Cosmology and the Christian Idea of God ( 1952)
  • Astrophysicist
  • President of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Briton
  • Born 1896
  • Died in 1950
  • Man
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