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==The Black Hole Controversy with Chandrasekhar==
==The Black Hole Controversy with Chandrasekhar==
In the 1930's Eddington got into a dispute with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who had proposed a model of stellar evolution for large stars—[[white dwarf|white dwarves]] with a mass greater than 1.44 times the mass of the sun, which is known as the Chandrasekhar limit. This work presaged the notion of black holes. Eddington rejected the notion that a purely mathematical analysis could be accepted if it led to such a seemingly absurd physical result. Chandrasekhar turned out to be right.
In the 1930s Eddington got into a dispute with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who had proposed a model of stellar evolution for large stars—[[white dwarf|white dwarves]] with a mass greater than 1.44 times the mass of the sun, which is known as the Chandrasekhar limit. This work presaged the notion of black holes. Eddington rejected the notion that a purely mathematical analysis could be accepted if it led to such a seemingly absurd physical result. Chandrasekhar turned out to be right.
==The Fine Structure Constant==
==The Fine Structure Constant==