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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Kragh, Helge S. (Author), Overduin, James M. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:SpringerBriefs in Physics,
Subjects:
Cosmology.
Physics-Philosophy.
Science-Philosophy.
Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy.
Philosophy of Science.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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