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Cosmology's century : an inside history of our modern understanding of the Universe /
From Nobel Prize-winning physicist P.J.E. Peebles, the story of cosmology from Einstein to todayModern cosmology began a century ago with Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity and his notion of a homogenous, philosophically satisfying cosmos. Cosmology's Century is the story of ho...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER 1. Introduction
- 1.1 The Science and Philosophy of Cosmology
- 1.2 An Overview
- CHAPTER 2. The Homogeneous Universe
- 2.1 Einstein's Cosmological Principle
- 2.2 Early Evidence of Inhomogeneity
- 2.3 Early Evidence of Homogeneity: Isotropy
- 2.4 Early Evidence of Homogeneity: Counts and Redshifts
- 2.5 The Universe as a Stationary Random Process
- 2.6 A Fractal Universe
- 2.7 Concluding Remarks
- CHAPTER 3. Cosmological Models
- 3.1 Discovery of the Relativistic Expanding Universe
- 3.2 The Relativistic Big Bang Cosmology
- 3.3 The Steady-State Cosmology
- 3.4 Empirical Assessments of the Steady-State Cosmology
- 3.5 Nonempirical Assessments of the Big Bang Model
- 3.5.1 Early Thinking
- 3.5.2 Cosmological Inflation
- 3.5.3 Biasing
- 3.6 Empirical Assessments of the Big Bang Model
- 3.6.1 Time Scales
- 3.6.2 Cosmological Tests in the 1970s
- 3.6.3 Mass Density Measurements: Introduction
- 3.6.4 Mass Density Measurements: Hubble to the Revolution
- 3.6.5 Mass Density Measurements: Assessments
- 3.7 Concluding Remarks
- CHAPTER 4. Fossils: Microwave Radiation and Light Elements
- 4.1 Thermal Radiation in an Expanding Universe
- 4.2 Gamow's Scenario
- 4.2.1 Gamow's 1948 Papers
- 4.2.2 Predicting the Present CMB Temperature
- 4.2.3 The Alpher, Bethe, and Gamow Paper
- 4.3 Helium and Deuterium from the Hot Big Bang
- 4.3.1 Recognition of Fossil Helium
- 4.3.2 Helium in a Cold Universe
- 4.3.3 Developments in 1964 and 1965
- 4.4 Sources of Microwave Radiation
- 4.4.1 Interstellar Cyanogen
- 4.4.2 Detection at Bell Laboratories
- 4.4.3 Zel'dovich's Group
- 4.4.4 Dicke's Group
- 4.4.5 Recognition of the CMB
- 4.5 Measuring the CMB Intensity Spectrum
- 4.5.1 The Situation in the 1970s
- 4.5.2 Alternative Interpretations
- 4.5.3 The Submillimeter Anomalies
- 4.5.4 Establishing the CMB Thermal Spectrum
- 4.6 Nucleosynthesis and the Baryon Mass Density
- 4.7 Why Was the Hot Big Bang Cosmology Reinvented?
- CHAPTER 5. How Cosmic Structure Grew
- 5.1 The Gravitational Instability Picture
- 5.1.1 Lemaître's Solution
- 5.1.2 Lifshitz's Perturbation Analyses
- 5.1.3 Nongravitational Interaction of Baryons and the CMB
- 5.1.4 The Jeans Mass
- 5.2 Scenarios
- 5.2.1 Chaos and Order
- 5.2.2 Primeval Turbulence
- 5.2.3 Gravitational Origin of Galaxy Rotation
- 5.2.4 Explosions
- 5.2.5 Spontaneously Broken Homogeneity
- 5.2.6 Initial Conditions
- 5.2.7 Bottom-Up or Top-Down Structure Formation
- 5.3 Concluding Remarks
- CHAPTER 6. Subluminal Mass
- 6.1 Clusters of Galaxies
- 6.2 Groups of Galaxies
- 6.3 Galaxy Rotation Curves
- 6.3.1 The Andromeda Nebula
- 6.3.2 NGC 311525
- 6.3.3 NGC 300
- 6.3.4 NGC 2403
- 6.3.5 The Burbidges's Program
- 6.3.6 Challenges
- 6.4 Stabilizing Spiral Galaxies
- 6.5 Recognizing Subluminal Matter
- Introduction. The Science and Philosophy of Cosmology
- The Homogeneous Universe. Einstein's Cosmological Principle
- Early Evidence of Inhomogeneity
- Early Evidence of Homogeneity: Isotropy
- Early Evidence of Homogeneity: Counts and Redshifts
- The Universe as a Stationary Random Process
- A Fractal Universe
- Concluding Remarks
- Cosmological Models. Discovery of the Relativistic Expanding Universe
- The Relativistic Big Bang Cosmology
- The Steady-State Cosmology
- Empirical Assessments of the Steady-State Cosmology
- Nonempirical Assessments of the Big Bang Model
- Early Thinking
- Cosmological Inflation
- Biasing
- Empirical Assessments of the Big Bang Model
- Time Scales
- Cosmological Tests in the 1970s
- Mass Density Measurements: Introduction
- Mass Density Measurements: Hubble to the Revolution
- Mass Density Measurements: Assessments
- Fossils: Microwave Radiation and Light Elements. Thermal Radiation in an Expanding Universe
- Gamow's Scenario
- Gamow's 1948 Papers
- Predicting the Present CMB Temperature
- The Alpher, Bethe, and Gamow Paper
- Helium and Deuterium from the Hot Big Bang
- Recognition of Fossil Helium
- Helium in a Cold Universe
- Developments in 1964 and 1965
- Sources of Microwave Radiation
- Interstellar Cyanogen
- Detection at Bell Laboratories
- Zel'dovich's Group
- Dicke's Group
- Recognition of the CMB
- Measuring the CMB Intensity Spectrum
- The Situation in the 1970s
- Alternative Interpretations
- The Submillimeter Anomalies
- Establishing the CMB Thermal Spectrum
- Nucleosynthesis and the Baryon Mass Density
- Why Was the Hot Big Bang Cosmology Reinvented?
- CHow Cosmic Structure Grew. The Gravitational Instability Picture
- Lemaître's Solution
- Lifshitz's Perturbation Analyses
- Nongravitational Interaction of Baryons and the CMB
- The Jeans Mass
- Scenarios
- Nonbaryonic dark matter. Hot dark matter
- Cold dark matter
- The age of abundance of cosmological models. Why is the CMB so smooth?
- The counterexample: CDM
- CDM and structure formation
- Variations on the theme
- How might it all fit together
- The 1998-2003 revolution. The Redshift-magnitude test
- The CMB temperature anisotropy
- What happened at the turn of the century
- The future of physical cosmology
- The ways of research. Technology
- Human behavior
- Roads not taken
- The social construction of science.