The Weight of the Vacuum A Scientific History of Dark Energy /

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of cosmic acceleration due to dark energy, a discovery that is all the more perplexing as nobody knows what dark energy actually is. We put the modern concept of cosmological vacuum energy into historical context and show how it grew out...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Kragh, Helge S. (Autor), Overduin, James M. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
Colección:SpringerBriefs in Physics,
Temas:
Cosmology.
Physics-Philosophy.
Science-Philosophy.
Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy.
Philosophy of Science.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Early ideas of space and vacuum
  • The active ether
  • Planck's second quantum theory
  • Half-quanta and zero-point energy
  • Nernst's cosmic quantum ether
  • The Hamburg connection
  • The cosmological constant
  • From Casimir to Zel'dovich
  • Inflation and the false vacuum
  • Variable cosmological constants and quintessence
  • How heavy is the vacuum?
  • The accelerating universe.

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