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The Zen in Modern Cosmology.
According to Modern Cosmology, our Universe came from a primordial state 13.7 billion years ago, with no matter and very little energy. In other words, it was almost empty. Where do the stars and galaxies, and everything else in the present universe come from then?. This captivating book provides an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
World Scientific Publishing Company,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 520 | |a According to Modern Cosmology, our Universe came from a primordial state 13.7 billion years ago, with no matter and very little energy. In other words, it was almost empty. Where do the stars and galaxies, and everything else in the present universe come from then?. This captivating book provides an answer to this question, and explains the observations and evidence behind the assertion of an almost empty primordial universe. Aimed at a general audience, it assumes no prior knowledge of astronomy or physics. The emptiness of the primordial universe is reminiscent of the emptiness in Zen Buddhi. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Preface; Chapter 1 Out of Emptiness; Chapter 2 Sakyamuni Buddha; Chapter 3 A Flower and a Smile; Chapter 4 Hui Neng; Chapter 5 The Platform Sutra; Chapter 6 Prologue to Our Universe; Chapter 7 Does the Universe Have a Beginning; Chapter 8 Size and Shape of the Universe; Chapter 9 Scale Factor and Redshift; Chapter 10 The Constituents of the Universe; Chapter 11 What is Matter; Chapter 12 Different Kinds of Energy; Kinetic Energy; Potential Energy; Rest Energy; Nuclear Energy; Dark Energy and Vacuum Energy; Chapter 13 Heat and Temperature; Chapter 14 The Noisy Universe. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 15 A Short History of the UniverseChapter 16 Inflation; The Flatness Problem; The Horizon Problem; Chapter 17 Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation; Quantum Fluctuation; Acoustic Oscillation; Sound in an Expanding Universe; Power Spectrum; The Frozen Sound Pattern; Photon Fluid Approximation; The Effect of Matter; Matter Oscillation; Polarizations; Evidence for Inflation; Chapter 18 Emergence of Matter; The Difficulty of Having Enough Matter in Our Universe; The Standard Model; Fermions; Gauge Bosons; C, P, T Operations; Higgs Bosons; Elementary Particles; Fermion Masses; Neutrinos. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a SphaleronThe Sakharov Conditions; The First Condition; The Second Condition; The Third Condition; Leptogenesis; A Summary of the Mechanism; Details of the Mechanism; Chapter 19 Syntheses of Chemical Elements; Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN); Fusion in Stars; Supernova Explosion; Chapter 20 Epilogue; Appendix A Endnotes; Appendix B Abbreviations and Mathematical Symbols; Appendix C Important Events after Reheating; Index. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Cosmology |v Popular works. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Zen Buddhism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Zen Buddhism and science. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Cosmologie |v Ouvrages de vulgarisation. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Bouddhisme zen. | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a Zen Buddhism |2 fast | |
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