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Fundamental ideas in cosmology : scientific, philosophical and sociological critical perspectives /
This book examines the world of cosmological research, providing an in-depth critical review of the research associated with challenges to the standard Big Bang scenario. It includes studies that are apparently at odds with the current standard Lambda-CDM model, providing examples of alternative the...
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Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) :
IOP Publishing,
[2022]
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| Colección: | IOP (Series). Release 22.
IOP ebooks. 2022 collection. |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Fundamental ideas in cosmology : |b scientific, philosophical and sociological critical perspectives / |c Martín López-Corredoira. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : |b IOP Publishing, |c [2022] | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 1. Historical and conceptual introduction to the standard cosmological model -- 1.1. Fundamental ideas in cosmology -- 1.2. Cosmology in western culture before the twentieth century -- 1.3. Origin and evolution of the standard cosmological model -- 1.4. Pillars of the standard model -- 1.5. Towards a sceptical position on cosmology | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 2. Some examples of alternative cosmologies -- 2.1. Variations on the standard model -- 2.2. Quasi-steady state cosmology -- 2.3. Plasma cosmology -- 2.4. Universe as a hypersphere -- 2.5. Static models and/or non-cosmological redshifts -- 2.6. Caveats/problems in the alternative approaches | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 3. CP violation, inflation, dark matter, and dark energy -- 3.1. Antimatter and CP violation -- 3.2. Inflation -- 3.3. History of the idea of dark matter -- 3.4. Dark matter and inconsistencies of the theory on galactic scales -- 3.5. Dark matter particles -- 3.6. Scenarios without non-baryonic cold dark matter -- 3.7. Dark energy and the cosmological constant or quintessence -- 3.8. Grey ... neither dark nor luminous | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 4. Redshift and expansion -- 4.1. Does redshift mean expansion? -- 4.2. Conceptual problems of expansion -- 4.3. Expansion on small scales -- 4.4. Hubble-Lemaître constant -- 4.5. Observational tests for the expansion of the Universe -- 4.6. Anomalous redshifts -- 4.7. So ... is the Universe expanding or not? | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 5. The cosmic microwave background radiation -- 5.1. Early predictions and observations -- 5.2. Alternative explanations for the temperature of 2.7 K -- 5.3. Alternative origin of the CMBR -- 5.4. Microwave background radiation anisotropies -- 5.5. Some doubts on the validity of the foreground Galactic contribution subtraction from microwave anisotropies -- 5.6. Anomalies in the anisotropies -- 5.7. Other background radiations -- 5.8. How sure can we be of the standard interpretation of the CMBR? | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 6. The abundance of light elements -- 6.1. Basic aspects of primordial nucleosynthesis -- 6.2. Helium-4 -- 6.3. Lithium -- 6.4. Deuterium and helium-3 -- 6.5. Abundances of other elements -- 6.6. Baryon fraction -- 6.7. Light element abundance without primordial nucleosynthesis -- 6.8. Light elements, weighty problems | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 7. Large-scale-structure and the formation and evolution of galaxies -- 7.1. Reionization epoch -- 7.2. Formation and evolution of stars and galaxies in the early Universe -- 7.3. Large-scale structure -- 7.4. Large-scale problems for the standard model | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 8. Sociological factors that hinder the development of alternative cosmological models -- 8.1. Deduction and induction in modern cosmology -- 8.2. Cosmological models and free parameters : new epicycles? -- 8.3. Social dynamics of an N-cosmologist system -- 8.4. Optimism and conservatism -- 8.5. Pluralism | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 9. Cosmology and culture -- 9.1. The influence of religion -- 9.2. God, multiverse, or neither -- 9.3. Binggeli's Primum Mobile -- 9.4. Politics and the democratisation of cosmology -- 9.5. Anglo-Saxon cultural colonialism -- 9.6. Cosmology as cultural expression | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 10. Epilogue -- 10.1. Cosmology : science or myth? -- 10.2. Desiderata for broadened perspectives in cosmology -- 10.3. Some closing personal remarks. | |
| 520 | 3 | |a This book examines the world of cosmological research, providing an in-depth critical review of the research associated with challenges to the standard Big Bang scenario. It includes studies that are apparently at odds with the current standard Lambda-CDM model, providing examples of alternative theories, tests and problems with the standard model, and a discussion on the philosophy and sociology of cosmology. | |
| 521 | |a Working cosmologists, undergraduate and graduate students of Astronomy and Philosophy of Science. | ||
| 530 | |a Also available in print. | ||
| 538 | |a Mode of access: World Wide Web. | ||
| 538 | |a System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader. | ||
| 545 | |a Martín López-Corredoira is a permanent staff astrophysicist at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in Tenerife, Spain. He has authored around a hundred papers (half of them as first author) on galaxies and cosmology in international refereed scientific journals. | ||
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