Talk:Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper

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Reasons for wanting to delete this page:


 * 1) There is not such theory.  There is such a paper however.
 * 2) The paper predicts the cosmic background radiation.  Other works describe the cosmic origins of chemical elements.
 * 3) Even if renamed to Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper, the best thing to do would be to make it a redirect to cosmic background radiation.

In short, this is an incorrect article with an incorrect title. Please remove it ASAP. --EMS | Talk 04:09, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Would a redirect really be the best option? A cursory search of the CMB articles doesn't reveal any mention of the paper, which is certainly significant in and of itself to be worthy of an article. I agree theory is the wrong title, and it should probably be changed to paper or some such thing (prediction?). --WilyD 11:44, 29 September 2005 (EST)

The paper is probably worthy of an article. Suppose we renamed to Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper, talked about the paper and how it got its name, maybe a brief summary of what was said in the paper and a link to cosmic background radiation. DJ Clayworth 15:49, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

DJ Clayworth That sounds like a reasonable plan to me. The paper is historically significant and the events surrounding it (such as the inclusion of Bethe as an author) are historically interesting, if of debatable significance. For the moment, anyhow, I made a minor edit to clarify a point I felt was misleading. I also wonder if "Shortcomings of the Theory" is NPOV or not. --WilyD 11:50, 29 September 2005 (EST)

AfD Mark II
A second AfD decided to move Alpher-Bethe-Gamow theory to Alpher-Bethe-Gamow Paper. The pre-move version of the aritcle can be found here. A history merge may or may not be appropriate. Alphax &tau;&epsilon;&chi; 07:24, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Bad Footnote
Footnote 1 apparently is intended to link to a Discover Magazine article, but discover.com belongs to the credit card company. --Dolohov (talk) 02:32, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Why the en-dashes?
Why is the title spelled with en-dashes instead of hyphens? I would think it should be "Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper". Is there a good argument for this? SpectrumDT (talk) 20:57, 4 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Well it is the correct typography. Endashes indicate that Alpher, Bethe, and Gamow are three different persons. Compare with Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula, the endash tells you it's two different person, named Gell-Mann and Nishijima. Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 21:08, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

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