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Book Synopsis Cosmological Enigmas by : Mark Kidger
Download or read book Cosmological Enigmas written by Mark Kidger and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-11-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Mark Kidger weaves together history, science, and science fiction to consider questions about the bigness of space and the strange objects that lie trembling at the edge of infinity. Reflecting on how stars shine and what may lie beyond the edge of the universe, Kidger takes readers on the ultimate cosmic journey.Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Synopsis Cosmological Enigmas by : Mark Kidger
Download or read book Cosmological Enigmas written by Mark Kidger and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-11-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Mark Kidger weaves together history, science, and science fiction to consider questions about the bigness of space and the strange objects that lie trembling at the edge of infinity. Reflecting on how stars shine and what may lie beyond the edge of the universe, Kidger takes readers on the ultimate cosmic journey.Johns Hopkins University Press
Download or read book Cosmic Enigmas written by Joseph I. Silk and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-05-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The dominant figures of postwar astrophysical cosmology have been the late Yakov Ze'ldovich, of Moscow, and Jim Peebles, of Princeton. But running a close third in influence has been Joseph Silk.... This collection is essential reading for the cosmological enthusiast." Nature These essays represent Joseph Silk's own meandering around cosmic themes. The topics span the beginning of time until its end and encompass the enigma of the evolution of large-scale structure, culminating in the formation of the galaxies. Dr. Silk has taken these writings from pieces written over the years, many commissioned to highlight a new look at a new discovery in cosmology. Some have been rewritten to capture a modern perspective while others remain as written to encapsulate his thoughts of a decade ago.
Book Synopsis Elementary Cosmology by : James J Kolata
Download or read book Elementary Cosmology written by James J Kolata and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cosmology is the study of the origin, size, and evolution of the entire universe. Every culture has developed a cosmology, whether it be based on religious, philosophical, or scientific principles. In this book, the evolution of the scientific understanding of the Universe in Western tradition is traced from the early Greek philosophers to the most modern 21st century view. After a brief introduction to the concept of the scientific method, the first part of the book describes the way in which detailed observations of the Universe, first with the naked eye and later with increasingly complex modern instruments, ultimately led to the development of the "Big Bang" theory. The second part of the book traces the evolution of the Big Bang including the very recent observation that the expansion of the Universe is itself accelerating with time.
Download or read book Cosmic Update written by Fred Adams and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...The Multiversal book series is equally unique, providing book-length extensions of the lectures with enough additional depth for those who truly want to explore these fields, while also providing the kind of clarity that is appropriate for interested lay people to grasp the general principles involved." - Lawrence M. Krauss Cosmic Update Covers: A novel approach to uncover the dark faces of the Standard Model of cosmology. The possibility that Dark Energy and Dark Matter are manifestations of the inhomogeneous geometry of our Universe. On the history of cosmological model building and the general architecture of cosmological modes. Illustrations on the Large Scale Structure of the Universe. A new perspective on the classical static Einstein Cosmos. Global properties of World Models including their Topology. The Arrow of Time in a Universe with a Positive Cosmological Constant. Exploring the consequences of a fundamental Cosmological Constant for our Universe. Exploring why the current observed acceleration of the Universe may not be its final destiny. Demonstrating that nature forbids the existence of a pure Cosmological Constant. Our current understanding of the long term (in time scales that greatly exceed the current age of the Universe) future of the Universe. The long term fate and eventual destruction of the astrophysical objects that populate the universe -- including clusters, galaxies, stars, planets, and black holes. The material is presented in a layperson-friendly language followed by addition technical sections that explain the basic equations and principles. This feature is very attractive to readers who want to learn more about the theories involved beyond the basic description. "Multiversal JourneysTM is a trademark of Farzad Nekoogar and Multiversal Journeys, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization."
Book Synopsis God, Humanity and the Cosmos by : Christopher Southgate
Download or read book God, Humanity and the Cosmos written by Christopher Southgate and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-10-29 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors include: Christopher Southgate John Hedley Brooke Celia Deane-Drummond Paul D. Murray Michael Robert Negus Lawrence Osborn Michael Poole Jacqui Stewart Fraser Watts David Wilkinson This fully revised and updated edition of God, Humanity and the Cosmos includes new chapters by John Hedley Brooke, Paul D. Murray and David Wilkinson. In addition to a systematic exploration of contemporary perspectives in physics, evolutionary biology and psychology as they relate to theological descriptions of the universe, humanity and consciousness, the book now provides a thorough survey of the theological, philosophical and historical issues underpinning the science-religion debate. Contributors also examine such issues as theological responses to the ecological crisis and to biotechnology; how science is treated and valued in education; and the relation of science to Islamic thought. Dr Christopher Southgate is Lecturer in Theology at the University of Exeter.'
Book Synopsis God, Humanity and the Cosmos - 3rd edition by : Christopher Southgate
Download or read book God, Humanity and the Cosmos - 3rd edition written by Christopher Southgate and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of a standard textbook in Religion and Science - already a classic!
Book Synopsis Current Topics in Astrofundamental Physics by : Norma G. Sànchez
Download or read book Current Topics in Astrofundamental Physics written by Norma G. Sànchez and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date presentation of the progress and current problems in the early universe, cosmic microwave background radiation, large scale structure formation, and the interplay between them. The emphasis is on the mutual impact of fundamental physics and cosmology, both at theoretical and experimental (observational) levels within a deep, well- focused and well-defined programme. The nature of the domain itself leads to different aspects, approaches and points of view on the same topic. Special care has been taken to provide the reader the basis of the different, sometimes competing lines of research. All contributions are uniformly excellent, with a careful selection of the subjects and approaches covered, presenting a unifying and rigorous view of the field. Audience: experimentalists and theoreticians from a variety of backgrounds: physics, astrophysics and astronomy. An excellent reference for post-doctoral scientists. Useful for senior scientists and advanced graduate students.
Book Synopsis Gravitation:the Spacetime Structure: Proceedings Of The Viii Latin American Symposium On Relativity And Gravitation by : Patricio S Letelier
Download or read book Gravitation:the Spacetime Structure: Proceedings Of The Viii Latin American Symposium On Relativity And Gravitation written by Patricio S Letelier and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1994-07-27 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains five mini-courses: Nakedly Singular Solutions of Einstein's Equations (K Lake); Clifford Algebras, Relativity and Quantum Mechanics (P Lounesto); Numerical Relativity and Dynamical Evolution of Black Hole Spacetimes (R Matzner); Soliton and Vacua in Relativity Theory Revisited (G W Gibbons); Cosmic Strings and Their Observational Consequences (E P S Shellard); and seventy-seven research papers by Latin American scientists.
Book Synopsis The Goldilocks Enigma by : Paul Davies
Download or read book The Goldilocks Enigma written by Paul Davies and published by HMH. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed physicist and cosmologist considers the multiverse and more: “Very readable indeed . . . This is Doctor Who, but for real.” —TheGuardian The Goldilocks Enigma is Paul Davies’s eagerly awaited return to cosmology, the successor to his critically acclaimed bestseller The Mind of God. Here he tackles all the “big questions,” including the biggest of them all: Why does the universe seem so well adapted for life? In his characteristically clear and elegant style, Davies shows how recent scientific discoveries point to a perplexing fact: many different aspects of the cosmos, from the properties of the humble carbon atom to the speed of light, seem tailor-made to produce life. A radical new theory says it’s because our universe is just one of an infinite number of universes, each one slightly different. Our universe is bio-friendly by accident—we just happened to win the cosmic jackpot. While this “multiverse” theory is compelling, it has bizarre implications, such as the existence of infinite copies of each of us and Matrix-like simulated universes. And it still leaves a lot unexplained. Davies believes there’s a more satisfying solution to the problem of existence: the observations we make today could help shape the nature of reality in the remote past. If this is true, then life—and, ultimately, consciousness—aren’t just incidental byproducts of nature, but central players in the evolution of the universe. Whether he’s elucidating dark matter or dark energy, M-theory or the multiverse, Davies brings the leading edge of science into sharp focus, provoking us to think about the cosmos and our place within it in new and thrilling ways.
Book Synopsis Astronomical Enigmas by : Mark Kidger
Download or read book Astronomical Enigmas written by Mark Kidger and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astronomer Kidger has spent his career helping the general public understand the nature of the universe and astronomy. In "Astronomical Enigmas," he offers answers to the questions he is asked most frequently.
Book Synopsis Chemical Cosmology by : Jan C. A. Boeyens
Download or read book Chemical Cosmology written by Jan C. A. Boeyens and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The composition of the most remote objects brought into view by the Hubble telescope can no longer be reconciled with the nucleogenesis of standard cosmology and the alternative explanation, in terms of the Λ-Cold-Dark-Matter model, has no recognizable chemical basis. A more rational scheme, based on the chemistry and periodicity of atomic matter, opens up an exciting new interpretation of the cosmos in terms of projective geometry and general relativity. The response of atomic structure to environmental pressure predicts non-Doppler cosmical redshifts and equilibrium nucleogenesis by α-particle addition, in accord with observed periodic variation of nuclear abundance. Inferred cosmic self similarity elucidates the Bode –Titius law, general commensurability in the solar system and the occurrence of quantum phenomena on a cosmic scale. The generalized periodic function involves both matter and anti-matter in an involuted mapping to a closed projective plane. This topology ensures the same symmetrical balance in a chiral universe, wrapped around an achiral vacuum interface, without singularities. A new cosmology emerges, based on the theory of projective relativity, presented here as a translation of Veblen’s original German text. Not only does it provide a unification of gravity, electromagnetism and quantum theory, through gauge invariance, but also supports the solution of the gravitational field equations, obtained by Gödel for a rotating universe. The appearance of an Einstein–Rosen bridge as outlet from a black hole, into conjugate anti-space, accounts for globular clusters, quasars, cosmic radiation, γ-ray bursters, pulsars, radio sources and other regions of plasma activity. The effects of a multiply-connected space-time manifold on observations in an Euclidean tangent space are unpredictable and a complete re-assessment of the size and structure of the universe is indicated. The target readership includes scientists, as well as non-scientists – everybody with a scientific or philosophical interest in cosmology and, especially those cosmologists and mathematicians with the ability to recast the crude ideas presented here into appropriate mathematical models.
Book Synopsis The Significance of Free Will by : Robert Kane
Download or read book The Significance of Free Will written by Robert Kane and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Kane provides a critical overview of debates about free will of the past half century, relating this recent inquiry to the broader history of the free will issue and to vital currents of twentieth century thought. Kane also defends a traditional libertarian or incompatibilist view of free will (one that insists upon the incompatibility of free will and determinism), employing arguments that are both new to philosophy and that respond to contemporary developments in physics and biology, neuro science, and the cognitive and behavioral sciences.
Book Synopsis HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY -Volume I by : Pablo Lorenzano
Download or read book HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY -Volume I written by Pablo Lorenzano and published by EOLSS Publications. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and Philosophy of Science and Technology is a component of Encyclopedia of Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on History and Philosophy of Science and Technology in four volumes covers several topics such as: Introduction to the Philosophy of Science; The Nature and Structure of Scientific Theories Natural Science; A Short History of Molecular Biology; The Structure of the Darwinian Argument In The Origin of Species; History of Measurement Theory; Episodes of XX Century Cosmology: A Historical Approach; Philosophy of Economics; Social Sciences: Historical And Philosophical Overview of Methods And Goals; Introduction to Ethics of Science and Technology; The Ethics of Science and Technology; The Control of Nature and the Origins of The Dichotomy Between Fact And Value; Science and Empires: The Geo-Epistemic Location of Knowledge; Science and Religion; Scientific Knowledge and Religious Knowledge - Significant Epistemological Reference Points; Thing Called Philosophy of Technology; Transitions from Function-Oriented To Effect-Oriented Technologies. Some Thought on the Nature of Modern Technology; Technical Agency and Sources of Technological Pessimism These four volumes are aimed at a broad spectrum of audiences: University and College Students, Educators and Research Personnel.
Book Synopsis Formation and Interactions of Topological Defects by : Anne-Christine Davis
Download or read book Formation and Interactions of Topological Defects written by Anne-Christine Davis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topological defects have recently become of great interest in condensed matter physics, particle physics and cosmology. They are the unavoidable remnants of many symmetry breaking phase transitions. Topological defects can play an important role in describing the properties of many condensed matter systems (e.g. superfluids and superconduc tors); they can catalyze many unusual effects in particle physics models and they may be responsible for seeding the density perturbations in the early Universe which de velop into galaxies and the large-scale structure of the Universe. Topological defects are also of great interest in mathematics as nontrivial solutions of nonlinear differential equations stabilized by topological effects. The purpose of the Advanced Study Institute "Formation and Interactions of Topo logical Defects" was to bring together students and practitioners in condensed matter physics, particle physics and cosmology, to give a detailed exposition of the role of topo logical defects in these fields; to explore similarities and differences in the approaches; and to provide a common basis for discussion and future collaborative research on common problems.
Book Synopsis Inner Space/Outer Space by : Edward Kolb
Download or read book Inner Space/Outer Space written by Edward Kolb and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1986-04 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inner Space/Outer Space brings together much of the exciting work contributing to a new synthesis of modern physics. Particle physicists, concerned with the "inner space" of the atom, are making discoveries that their colleagues in astrophysics, studying outer space, can use to develop and test hypotheses about the events that occurred in the microseconds after the Big Bang and that shaped the universe as we know it today. The papers collected here, from scores of scientists, constitute the proceedings of the first major international conference on research at the interface of particle physics and astrophysics, held in May 1984. The editors have written introductions to each major section that draw out the central themes and elaborate on the primary implications of the papers that follow.
Book Synopsis The Universe is a Machine by : James Michel Hughes
Download or read book The Universe is a Machine written by James Michel Hughes and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Universe is a Machine is in the form of a treatise, and explores the ‘smoking gun’ clue that a distinct mechanical process was present in the aftermath of the Big Bang, superimposed on the thermodynamic and nuclear processes associated with the evolution of the early Universe. This conjecture challenges the current scientific orthodoxy that antimatter was completely destroyed in the aftermath of the Big Bang. The clues for this conjecture are contained within the cosmic microwave background radiation echo left over from the Big Bang. A novel solution is proposed for what happened to all the antimatter, why it is still extant within the Universe, and why its presence has never been detected. The very profound deduced consequences of this are also explored, revealing new perspectives on aspects of the early Universe, including inflation, conditions surrounding primordial nuclear fusion, the formation of the first spinning galaxies or superstars, the formation of a cold dark zone, the formation of black holes in the centre of galaxies, the conundrum of dark matter, and a possible future doomsday scenario for the fate of the Universe. The Universe is a Machine may offer food for thought for some physicists who claim that aspects of physics are currently in a cul-de-sac and that a totally new perspective may be required. The perspectives contained in this book may be the first step out of that cul-de-sac. This innovative new book will appeal to scientists and engineers who have an interest in cosmology. It assumes prior knowledge of fundamental concepts in mechanics and physics, and a familiarity with elementary differential and integral calculus is required for the appendices. Explanatory illustrations are included.
