Jim Peebles

"I have been working in cosmology for 55 years ... I'm the last man standing, so to speak, from those early days."

"A solid stores energy in the vibrations of the atoms about their equilibrium positions. In the simplest approximation, which Einstein considered, each atom vibrates with the same frequency, ν, in each…"

"Another somewhat confusing usage is the name "the big bang" for the standard model. It is not appropriate, because it connotes a spatially isolated event, an explosion, that marked the start of everyt…"

"I don't think there is a final theory of anything. It's theories all the way down."

"The n-point correlation functions have proved useful not only as descriptive statistics but also as dynamic variables in the Newtonian theory of the evolution of clustering. ... The functions are gene…"