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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gonzalo, Julio A. (Julio Antonio)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, Ã2005.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Steady state versus big bang cosmologies
  • The microwave CBR
  • The birth of inflationary cosmology
  • The cosmic background explorer (COBE)
  • Dark matter, cosmic flatness and accelerated expansion
  • The microwave anisotropy Probe (WMAP)
  • On the monopole, flatness and horizon problems
  • An alternative to inflation?