Category: Cosmology

By George Gamow, Russell Stannard, Michael Edwards, Wu Bozhe

ISBN-10: 0511008007

ISBN-13: 9780511008009

ISBN-10: 0521630096

ISBN-13: 9780521630092

Mr. Tompkins is again! The mild-mannered financial institution clerk with the fast awareness span and bright mind's eye has encouraged, charmed, and knowledgeable old and young alike because the book of the highly profitable Mr Tompkins in Paperback (by George Gamow) in 1965. Now, this hugely affable personality returns to embark on a suite of adventures that discover the intense edges of the universe--the smallest, the biggest, the quickest, and the farthest. simply by following the reports and desires of Mr. Tompkins, readers become aware of and are available to understand the merry dance of cosmic mysteries, together with: Einstein's thought of relativity, strange results close to light-speed, the beginning and loss of life of the universe, black holes, quarks, area warps and antimatter, the bushy global of the quantum, and that final cosmic mystery--love. the tale of Mr. Tompkins' trip to the frontiers of recent physics will pride and tell all readers. Russell Stannard is a best-selling well known technology author and the writer of the significantly acclaimed Uncle Albert sequence of technological know-how books for kids.

By Michael Rowan-Robinson

ISBN-10: 0198504446

ISBN-13: 9780198504443

How outdated is the universe? What do the atoms in bodies, our very lifestyles, let us know concerning the background of the universe? How heavy is the vacuum? How do galaxies shape? Michael Rowan-Robinson solutions those questions and encapsulates all that glossy astronomy has chanced on in regards to the universe round 9 numbers. His motto is Montaigne's "What do I know?" And the reader emerges with a real consider for what we do rather learn about the universe and likewise what we don't. just one of the 9 numbers is understood with genuine precision, whereas 4 of them aren't identified in any respect. complex principles just like the starting place of the weather, the overall idea of Relativity, quantum conception, and the traditional version of particle physics, rules that represent sleek cosmology, are defined in an easy approach. Speculative principles like inflation, Theories of every thing, strings and superstrings, also are during this ebook, yet they're handled with a fresh skepticism. even though so much of what we all know has been discovered throughout the 20th century, Rowan-Robinson offers an historic viewpoint and honors the achievements of the Greeks, renaissance astronomers, and the age of Newton. He ends the publication with an research of the longer term, predicting that with the appearance of the MAP and PLANCK-Surveyor house missions, the big Hadron Collider, and different deliberate experiments, all 9 numbers could be competently identified via 2015. besides the fact that, he stresses that many questions and mysteries will stay, and the e-book concludes with the concept that the beginning of the massive Bang will stay a secret in 2100 and even perhaps within the yr 3000

By Derek Raine, E.G. Thomas

ISBN-10: 0750304057

ISBN-13: 9780750304054

A radical creation to trendy principles on cosmology and at the actual foundation of the final concept of relativity, An creation to the technological know-how of Cosmology explores a variety of theories and ideas in titanic bang cosmology, offering perception into present difficulties. Assuming no past wisdom of astronomy or cosmology, this booklet takes you past introductory texts to the purpose the place you could learn and delight in the clinical literature, that is greatly referenced within the booklet. The authors current the traditional massive bang concept of the universe and supply an creation to present inflationary cosmology, emphasizing the underlying physics with out over the top technical detail.The publication treats cosmological types with out reliance on earlier wisdom of normal relativity, the mandatory physics being brought within the textual content as required. It additionally covers contemporary observational proof pointing to an accelerating enlargement of the universe. the 1st a number of chapters offer an advent to the subjects mentioned later within the ebook. the following couple of chapters introduce relativistic cosmology and the vintage observational checks. One bankruptcy supplies the most result of the recent enormous bang concept. subsequent, the ebook offers the inflationary version and discusses the matter of the foundation of constitution and the correspondingly extra distinct assessments of relativistic versions. eventually, the e-book considers a few common matters raised by way of growth and isotropy. A reference part completes the paintings through directory crucial formulae, symbols, and actual constants.Beyond the extent of many user-friendly books on cosmology, An creation to the technological know-how of Cosmology encompasses a variety of fresh advancements and ideas within the quarter. It offers extra specified assurance than many different titles on hand, and the inclusion of difficulties on the finish of every bankruptcy aids in self research and makes the publication compatible for taught classes.

By P. D. B. Collins

ISBN-10: 0471600881

ISBN-13: 9780471600886

This readable advent to particle physics and cosmology discusses the interplay of those primary branches of physics and considers contemporary advances past the traditional versions. 8 chapters contain a quick creation to the gauge theories of the robust and the electroweak interactions, the so-called grand unified theories, and normal relativity. Ten extra chapters handle fresh recommendations reminiscent of composite fermions and bosons, supersymmetry, quantum gravity, supergravity, and strings theories, and relate them to trendy cosmology and experimental astronomy.

By G. Fischer

ISBN-10: 3540078576

ISBN-13: 9783540078579

ISBN-10: 354038121X

ISBN-13: 9783540381211

By Alex Vilenkin

ISBN-10: 0809095238

ISBN-13: 9780809095230

Fresh discoveries in cosmology have resulted in a extraordinary new worldview that (to paraphrase Niels Bohr) can be loopy sufficient to be real. simply think about the litany of mind-boggling new principles being bandied approximately in recent times: the acceleration of cosmic growth, darkish strength (on most sensible of darkish subject, yet!), primordial “ripples” in space-time, the quantum construction of the universe from not anything, everlasting cosmic inflation, a number of universes . . .Sound loopy adequate for you? Fortunately, the hot theoretical advances additionally bring about testable predictions, and we may possibly quickly witness the affirmation of a few of those predictions through clean astronomical findings. Alex Vilenkin’s personal medical paintings has been heavily tied to the emergence of the hot worldview, from the unique rules to the newest advancements. in lots of Worlds in a single, he provides a thrilling, unusually wonderful firsthand account of the delivery of the recent cosmology, and its fascinating—and now and then disturbing—implications.

By Brian Greene

From Brian Greene, one of many world’s top physicists and writer of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The based Universe, comes a grand journey of the universe that makes us examine fact in a totally assorted way.

Space and time shape the very cloth of the cosmos. but they continue to be one of the so much mysterious of techniques. Is house an entity? Why does time have a path? may well the universe exist with out area and time? do we shuttle to the prior? Greene has set himself a daunting activity: to give an explanation for non-intuitive, mathematical techniques like String thought, the Heisenberg Uncertainty precept, and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawn from universal adventure. From Newton’s unchanging realm within which area and time are absolute, to Einstein’s fluid belief of spacetime, to quantum mechanics’ entangled enviornment the place significantly far away items can right away coordinate their habit, Greene takes us all, despite our clinical backgrounds, on an impossible to resist and revelatory trip to the recent layers of truth that smooth physics has came upon mendacity simply underneath the floor of our daily international.

By H. Dieter Zeh

ISBN-10: 364221889X

ISBN-13: 9783642218897

Beschreiben die Begriffe der modernen Physik die „Realität“ oder sind sie nur Hilfsmittel und Rechenwerkzeuge? Wie können reale Objekte aus Atomen aufgebaut sein, wenn diese angeblich gar keine realen Eigenschaften vor deren Messung besitzen? Wie kann Schrödingers Wellenfunktion erfolgreich die Struktur und Stabilität von Atomen, Molekülen und Festkörpern beschreiben, wenn sie nur „menschliches Wissen“ oder abstrakte „Information“ darstellt? Und wie kann die Zukunft unbestimmt sein, wenn Einsteins Raumzeit die Weltgeschichte als ein vierdimensionales „Blockuniversum“ darzustellen erlaubt?

Das Buch enthält eine Sammlung von Aufsätzen, in denen sich der Autor mit diversen „faulen Ausreden“ auseinandersetzt, die Physiker sich ausgedacht haben, um unerwarteten Konsequenzen ihrer eigenen Theorien aus dem Wege zu gehen. Es richtet sich ebenso an Physiker wie an allgemeine Naturwissenschaftler, Philosophen und interessierte Laien mit Grundlagenkenntnissen.

By James M. Lattis

By Mark A. Garlick

ISBN-10: 0521803365

ISBN-13: 9780521803366

The our bodies of our sun approach have orbited continously round the sunlight in view that their formation, yet they've got now not consistently been there, and stipulations haven't consistently been as they're this day. the tale of the sunlight procedure explains how our sunlight procedure got here into life, the way it has advanced and the way it may well finish billions of years from now. After a quick ancient advent, Mark Garlick describes the beginning of the sunlight and the stairs that equipped up the our bodies of the sunlight process. brilliant illustrations of planets, moons, asteroids and comets supplement the distinct descriptions. A comparability of those gadgets, and an research of ways they've got replaced and advanced due to the fact that start is via a glance in the direction of the top of the sun System's lifestyles. Mark A. Garlick received his PhD in astrophysics from the Mullard house technology Laboratory in Surrey, England. he's a member of the foreign organization of Astronomical Artists, and presently works as a contract technological know-how author and astronomical illustrator.