Jayant Narlikar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jayant Narlikar

Indian physicist

Date of Birth: 19-Jul-1938

Place of Birth: Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India

Profession: astronomer, writer, physicist, astrophysicist, university teacher, science fiction writer

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (born 19 July 1938) is an Indian astrophysicist.
He developed with Sir Fred Hoyle the conformal gravity theory, 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.