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The Little Book of Cosmology
Lyman Page
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Beschreibung
The cutting-edge science that is taking the measure of the universe
The Little Book of Cosmology provides a breathtaking look at our universe on the grandest scales imaginable. Written by one of the world's leading experimental cosmologists, this short but deeply insightful book describes what scientists are revealing through precise measurements of the faint thermal afterglow of the Big Bang—known as the cosmic microwave background, or CMB—and how their findings are transforming our view of the cosmos.
Blending the latest findings in cosmology with essential concepts from physics, Lyman Page first helps readers to grasp the sheer enormity of the universe, explaining how to understand the history of its formation and evolution in space and time. Then he sheds light on how spatial variations in the CMB formed, how they reveal the age, size, and geometry of the universe, and how they offer a blueprint for the formation of cosmic structure.
Not only does Page explain current observations and measurements, he describes how they can be woven together into a unified picture to form the Standard Model of Cosmology. Yet much remains unknown, and this incisive book also describes the search for ever deeper knowledge at the field's frontiers—from quests to understand the nature of neutrinos and dark energy to investigations into the physics of the very early universe.
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Big Bang, Neutron, Cosmic Evolution (book), Gravitational wave, Energy density, Structure formation, Dark energy, Galaxy cluster, Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, Andromeda Galaxy, Lambda-CDM model, Gravity, Jim Peebles, Quark–gluon plasma, David Spergel, Mass distribution, Billion years, Special relativity, Doppler effect, Mass–energy equivalence, Microwave, Planck (spacecraft), Cosmological constant, Paul Steinhardt, Temperature, Age of the universe, Universe, Absolute zero, Galactic plane, Milky Way, Mollweide projection, Large Magellanic Cloud, Physical cosmology, Photon, Thermometer, Accelerating expansion of the universe, Nuclear force, Two-dimensional space, Hubble Space Telescope, Cosmic microwave background, General relativity, Nuclear reaction, Elementary particle, Hubble Ultra-Deep Field, Measurement, Planck's law, Black body, Metric expansion of space, Cosmological principle, Anisotropy, Earth, Thermal radiation, Supernova, Electromagnetic spectrum, Wavelength, Hubble's law, Reionization, Observable universe, Light-year, Scale factor (cosmology), Dimension, Scattering, Ultraviolet, Cosmic Background Explorer, Neutrino, Galactic Center, Chronology of the universe, Full moon, Thermal energy, Quantity