Abstract
IN a series of recent mathematical papers, culminating in a general review of the subject in more physical terms1, S. Chandrasekhar has laid the foundations of a statistical theory of stellar dynamics which treats the subject in a way fundamentally different from the ordinary analytical approach. Certain aspects of the theory concerning the dynamics of star clusters and the statistics of binary stars are discussed in detail by Chandrasekhar; they have interesting repercussions on current ideas concerning the time-scale of the universe, and are summarized below.
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HUNTER, A. The Cosmic Time-Scale. Nature 154, 327–328 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154327a0
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