The Infinite Cosmos

Questions from the Frontiers of Cosmology
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-850510-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

From time immemorial, poets and philosophers have looked in awe and wonder at the Universe. Such awe is shared by astrophysicists, too, as they seek to understand its nature, and whether it has any limits. In The Infinite Cosmos, Joseph Silk, Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford University, cosmologist and well-known science writer, brings together the modern understanding of the Universe, its structure, its evolution, and its possible fate, combining the latest from theory and observation. The narrative is peppered with quotations from literature and philosophy, and reflects, too, on the process of scientific discovery, and the implications of our discoveries.

Zielgruppe

General readers of popular science, particularly those with an interest in cosmology, professional physicists and astronomers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Silk, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Kosmologie, Urknalltheorie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomie: Sachbuch
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Galaxien und Sterne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction

- 2: Perspectives

- 3: Principles

- 4: Our neighbourhood

- 5: The universe of galaxies

- 6: The invisible cosmos

- 7: Supermassive black holes and the birth of galaxies

- 8: Clusters and clustering

- 9: Space is nearly flat

- 10: Dark energy and the runaway universe

- 11: The panacea of cold dark matter

- 12: From time to time machines

- 13: Origins

- 14: The seeds of structure

- 15: Beyond the beginning

- 16: Towards the infinite universe

- 17: Into the infinite future

- 18: And so to God

- 19: Conclusion

- 20: Glossary

- 21: Index

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Über Autor(innen)

Joseph Silk is Savilian Professor of Astronomy and Head of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford. He is an experienced and successful author of books on cosmology for the general reader: his published titles include The Big Bang (W. H. Freeman) and The Left Hand of Creation (with J. D. Barrow, published by Oxford University Press).