Calibrating the Cosmos

How Cosmology Explains Our Big Bang Universe
2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-30778-7
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 301 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 705 g

Reihe: Astronomers' Universe

This book explains in clear, non-mathematical language the measurements and the interpretation of the resulting data that have led to the current understanding of the origin, evolution and properties of our expanding Big Bang universe. Theoretical concepts are emphasized, but no other book for the layman explains how model universes are generated, and how they function as the templates against which ours is compared and analyzed. Background material is provided in the first four chapters; the current picture and how it was attained are discussed in the next four chapters; and some unsolved problems and conjectured solutions are explored in the final chapter.

Zielgruppe

Amateur astronomers and 'Armchair' astronomers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levin, Frank

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomie: Sachbuch

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Splendid Science.- Measuring Distances: On the Earth, in the Solar System, to the Nearby Stars.- Light, Radiation, and Quanta.- Stars: Attributes, Energetics, End Stages.- The Expanding Universe.- Homogeneous, Isotropic Universes.- The Parameters of the Universe.- The Early Universe.- Conjectures.

Über Autor(innen)

Until his retirement Professor Levin was a faculty member at Brown University, teaching a wide variety of graduate and undergraduate courses in physics and mathematics. Since retiring in 2001 he has taught adult education courses on cosmology and the universe (2002, 2003, and 2005), and on quantum ideas and phenomena (2004 and 2006). His publications include An Introduction to Quantum Theory (Cambridge, 2001/2002), co-editor with D. A. Micha, two volumes in the series, Finite Systems and Multiparticle Dynamics (Plenum): Vol. 1 Long Range Casimir Forces (1993); Vol. 2 Coulomb Interactions in Nuclear and Atomic Few-body Systems (1996).