Category: Cosmology

By Bruce Reichenbach

1972, first variation demanding disguise from inner most assortment. No writing or underlining, strong binding, minor put on, with airborne dirt and dust jacket

By Plato

ISBN-10: 0872203867

ISBN-13: 9780872203860

...one of the masterpieces of classical scholarship...Contemporary paintings at the Timaeus will unavoidably take Platos Cosmology as its start line - Charles H Kahn, college of Pennsylvania.

By Pierre Binetruy

ISBN-10: 0198509545

ISBN-13: 9780198509547

This publication is an advent to the speculation of supersymmetry, that's a cornerstone to knowing the physics of common debris past the so-called "Standard Model". Supersymmetry is the 1st introductory booklet in this glossy and more and more renowned topic.

By C. V. Vishveshwara

ISBN-10: 3319082132

ISBN-13: 9783319082134

The bubbles have been swirling throughout me, massaging my physique. As I luxuriated during this impressive bathtub, I gasped figuring out that these bubbles carried with them miniature galaxies bringing the complete Cosmos into my bathtub...

Alfie is again. And so are George and different characters from the author’s earlier ebook Einstein’s Enigma or Black Holes in My Bubble bathtub. whereas the current booklet, Universe Unveiled - The Cosmos in My Bubble bathtub, is totally self sustaining, its storyline should be thought of a sequel to the former one. The medical content material spanning historical global types to the latest mysteries of cosmology is gifted in a completely nontechnical and descriptive type throughout the discussions among Alfie, the enlightened learner, and George, professor of astrophysics. Fantasies, according to those discussions that conceal the medical proof, are created via the paranormal bubble baths taken through Alfie.

Universe Unveiled blends actual technology with philosophy, drama, humour, and delusion to create an exhilarating cosmic trip that reads like a unique and educates because it entertains.

By Stephen W. Hawking, Ron Miller, Carl Sagan

ISBN-10: 055305340X

ISBN-13: 9780553053401

Stephen Hawking, essentially the most fabulous theoretical physicists in heritage, wrote the trendy vintage a quick heritage of Time to aid nonscientists comprehend the questions being requested by means of scientists this day: the place did the universe come from? How and why did it start? Will it come to an finish, and if this is the case, how? Hawking makes an attempt to bare those questions (and the place we are trying to find solutions) utilizing at least technical jargon. one of the themes gracefully lined are gravity, black holes, the massive Bang, the character of time, and physicists' look for a grand unifying conception. this can be deep technology; those innovations are so large (or so tiny) as to reason vertigo whereas interpreting, and one can not help yet surprise at Hawking's skill to synthesize this tough topic for individuals no longer used to brooding about such things as trade dimensions. the adventure is definitely worthy taking, for, as Hawking says, the present of realizing the universe could be a glimpse of "the brain of God."

By Helmut Satz

ISBN-10: 3642416578

ISBN-13: 9783642416576

Within the final hundred years, smooth physics and cosmology have proven that there exist areas of the universe perpetually past our succeed in, hidden via actually final horizons. Such areas exist in these distant components of the universe the place, from our perspective, area expands speedier than the rate of sunshine. they're present in black holes, the place the gravity is robust sufficient to keep even mild inside of its box of allure. And within the realm of the very small, quarks needs to stay perpetually limited to their international of maximum density and will by no means be faraway from it. the purpose of this booklet is to explain those final horizons, how they have been chanced on, how they form our view of the realm, and what clues we've got a couple of global past them.

By Professor Pierre Léna (auth.)

ISBN-10: 366202554X

ISBN-13: 9783662025543

ISBN-10: 3662025566

ISBN-13: 9783662025567

By Martin Ratcliffe

ISBN-10: 0387716742

ISBN-13: 9780387716749

The purpose of the kingdom of the Universe annuals is to supply an annual astronomy overview appropriate for the preferred technological know-how point reader to be released each September in a structure that would be compatible for, and attract, the Christmas marketplace. The booklet will hide all significant astronomical information on issues past the sunlight process and position them within the context of the long run pursuits of astronomers and astrophysicists worldwide. the purpose is to trap the buzz and vibrancy of recent astronomical learn. This part additionally comprises net hyperlinks for all significant information tales, offering a bridge among the general public information tales and the particular study net sites.
Chapter 1 – ‘A 12 months in information and Pictures’, written by means of Martin Ratcliffe, seems to be each year and makes up the 1st half the yearly. it's going to current short summaries of the key bulletins, discoveries and information goods from that yr, with the main ones being defined intimately via later chapters written by way of invited members who're on the vanguard of analysis in those fields. The January assembly of the yank Astronomical Society every year stands out as the significant resource of astronomical information for the subsequent year’s quantity, giving entry to power authors and contacts with public info officials of significant observatories, area facilities, etc.
The invited contributions which make up the second one 1/2 the once a year every year will hide a number of subject matters and are written to attract a large readership. those are written by means of best astronomers or technology writers. One function brought within the first quantity, the general evaluation of the country of the Universe through Dr Jim Kaler can be retained for kingdom of the Universe 2008. The set of appendices on the finish of the ebook will comprise an inventory of launches of significant astronomical observatories/satellites in past times 12 months; an inventory of deliberate destiny astronomical satellites; easy facts on all astronomical observatories at present in operation with internet hyperlinks for the reader who needs to determine extra.

By Dr Julien Lesgourgues, Dr Gianpiero Mangano, Professor Gennaro Miele, Dr Sergio Pastor

ISBN-10: 110701395X

ISBN-13: 9781107013957

The function that neutrinos have performed within the evolution of the Universe is the focal point of 1 of the main interesting study components that has stemmed from the interaction among cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics. during this self-contained ebook, the authors assemble all elements of the position of neutrinos in cosmology, spanning from leptogenesis to primordial nucleosynthesis, their position in CMB and constitution formation, to the matter in their direct detection. The publication starts off by means of guiding the reader via points of basic neutrino physics, equivalent to the normal cosmological version and the statistical mechanics within the increasing Universe, ahead of discussing the heritage of neutrinos in chronological order from the very early phases till this day. This well timed booklet will curiosity graduate scholars and researchers in astrophysics, cosmology and particle physics, who paintings with both a theoretical or experimental concentration

By J M Overduin, P S Wesson