Talk:Robert H. Dicke

Confusing...
I read this, but I'm not sure what to make of it:

"He spent the remainder of his career developing a program of precision tests of general relativity using the framework of the equivalence principle. With Carl H. Brans, he developed Brans-Dicke theory, an equivalence-principle violating modification of general relativity inspired by Paul Dirac's large numbers hypothesis and Mach's principle. He made measurements of solar oblateness which were useful in understanding the perihelion precession of Mercury's orbit, one of the classical tests of general relativity."

Am I correct in thinking the second sentence is out of place? It seems to be suggesting that he developed an alternate theory that violates the equivalence-principle, but then goes on to talk about an experiment that supports mainstream GR. Was the experiment in question run in order to test the B-D theory, but instead supported classical GR? If so, this seems like something worth mentioning. If not, it seems this section needs a good edit.

Maury 01:00, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Circular reference
The Dicke radiometer link redirects back to this Dicke article. Annoying! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.227.15.253 (talk) 18:34, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

No big bang echo
this article badly needs to add a paragraph about Robt Dicke 's theory about big bang (initial super explosion that created the universe) leaving an echo of microwaves, which proved to be true and confirmed the big bang theory. And this is likely the main thing Dicke is famous for. ... Lads, please add - ref: http://www.answers.com/topic/robert-henry-dicke#, lil echo einstein sr 69.121.221.97 (talk) 13:12, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Add notable brother
Richard M Dicke (b: 26 Dec 1915 d: 20 Nov 1997)("Rick" Dicke), Robert H Dicke's brother was a notable person being managing partner of leading NYC and global law firm, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in the 1970's - 80's and member of the boards of Leading US Companies as American Electric Power, Atlantic City Electric Company and Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company; and should be mentioned in the article ... astride woolsack III 69.121.221.97 (talk) 13:55, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Dicke Fix
It would be worth a mention to "Dicke fix", an electronic counter-countermeasure for improving the robustness of radar receivers against jamming. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 181.90.40.29 (talk) 02:43, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Impossible claim in biography section
The first paragraph of the biography section claims that Dicke "set a limit on the temperature of the microwave background radiation, from the roof of the Radiation Laboratory, of less than 20 kelvins" during World War II. The microwave background wasn't discovered until 1964. Ted.tem.parker (talk) 03:45, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

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