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Inflationary cosmology revisited : an overview of contemporary scientific cosmology after the inflationary proposal /

Scientific Cosmology is clearly one of the most active physics research fields at present, and likely to remain so in the near future. Shortly after the pioneering cosmological work of Einstein, Georges Lemaitre proposed a model which some years later to be known as the big-bang model. In the early...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gonzalo, Julio A. (Julio Antonio)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Foreword; Prologue; Contents; Chapter 1 Steady State versus Big Bang Cosmology; Chapter 2 The Microwave CBR; Chapter 3 The Birth of Inflationary Cosmology; Chapter 4 The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE); Chapter 5 Dark Matter, Cosmic Flatness & Accelerated Expansion; Chapter 6 The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP); Chapter 7 On the Monopole, Flatness and Horizon Problems; Chapter 8 An Alternative to Inflation?; Appendix How close are the cosmic times for matter/radiation equality and for atom formation?; A Brief Glossary; Index.