Editing Arthur Eddington (section)

===Dispute with Chandrasekhar on the mass limit of stars===
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The topic of extension of his models precipitated his dispute with [[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar]], who was then a student at Cambridge. Chandrasekhar's work presaged the discovery of [[black hole]]s, which at the time seemed so absurdly non-physical that Eddington refused to believe that Chandrasekhar's purely mathematical derivation had consequences for the real world. Eddington was wrong and his motivation is controversial. Chandrasekhar's narrative of this incident, in which his work is harshly rejected, portrays Eddington as rather cruel and dogmatic. Chandra benefited from his friendship with Eddington. It was Eddington and Milne who put up Chandra's name for the fellowship for the Royal Society which Chandra obtained. An FRS meant he was at the Cambridge high-table with all the luminaries and a very comfortable endowment for research. Eddington's criticism seems to have been based partly on a suspicion that a purely mathematical derivation from relativity theory was not enough to explain the seemingly daunting physical paradoxes that were inherent to degenerate stars, but to have "raised irrelevant objections" in addition, as [[Thanu Padmanabhan]] puts it.<ref>{{Cite journal
| last1 = Padmanabhan | first1 = T.| title = The dark side of astronomy| doi = 10.1038/435020a| journal = Nature| volume = 435| issue = 7038| pages = 20–21| year = 2005|bibcode = 2005Natur.435...20P | doi-access = free}}</ref>