The untold story of how the cosmic microwave background radiation was interpreted following its discovery is a modern case study of theory building within the history and philosophy of science. It examines the epistemological factors at play between the emerging scientific orthodoxy of the Big Bang theory and its alternatives.
The untold story of how the cosmic microwave background radiation was interpreted following its discovery is a modern case study of theory building within the history and philosophy of science. It examines the epistemological factors at play between the emerging scientific orthodoxy of the Big Bang theory and its alternatives.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Slobodan Perovi¿ is a professor of philosophy and history of science at the University of Belgrade. . He earned his Ph.D. at York University, Toronto, in 2005, and held teaching and research positions at Carleton University and the University of Pittsburgh, before returning to join the faculty in Belgrade in 2010. He is the principal convener of the 'Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation' conference series, and is author of From Data to Quanta: Niels Bohr's Vision of Physics (University of Chicago Press, 2021).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I. Physical Cosmology: A Brief Introduction: 1. Physical cosmology from Einstein to 1965 2. The 'great controversy' (1948-65) and epistemological issues it raised 3. Hot big bang and ¿CDM Part II. Discovery of the CMB and Current Cosmological Orthodoxy: 4. Discovery of the CMB 5. CMB phenomenology 6. Standard 'textbook' history and its shortcomings 7. Emergence of precision cosmology Part III. What Constitutes an Unorthodoxy? Epistemological Framework of Cosmology: 8. Underdetermination of theories and models in cosmology 9. Was the CMB a smoking gun? 10. Classifying and analysing unorthodoxies Part IV. Moderate Unorthodoxies: The CMB with the Big Bang: 11. Cold and tepid big bangs: population iii objects 12. Models with unresolved sources 13. Thermalization by grains, the first wave 14. Primordial chaos 15. Early intergalactic medium, massive population III objects and the large-numbers hypothesis 16. Late thermalization of starlight 17. 'An excess in moderation': high-baryon universe Part V. Radical Unorthodoxies: The CMB Without the Big Bang: 18. Motivations: who's afraid of the big (bad) bang? 19. Hoyle-narlikar theory and the changing masses origin of the CMB 20. Revised steady state 21. Closed steady-state models 22. CMB in plasma cosmology 23. CMB in non-expanding models Part VI. Formation of the Orthodoxy and the Alternatives: Epistemological Lessons: 24. History and epistemology: the emergence of orthodoxy 25. What about the alternatives? 26. Pragmatic aspects of model-building and social epistemology of cosmology 27. Large-scale numerical simulations in cosmology: beyond the theory-observations distinction? Part VII. Other Philosophically Relevant Aspects of the CMB: 28. CMB and copernicanism: 'the axis of evil' and 'the fingers of god' 29. The 'problem of other observers' and anthropic reasoning 30. The nature of boundary conditions in cosmology, the CMB, and the 'laws of nature' debate 31. CMB and the multiverse: limits of scientific realism? Appendix 1: relativistic cosmological models Appendix 2: dipole anisotropy Notes References Index.
Introduction Part I. Physical Cosmology: A Brief Introduction: 1. Physical cosmology from Einstein to 1965 2. The 'great controversy' (1948-65) and epistemological issues it raised 3. Hot big bang and ¿CDM Part II. Discovery of the CMB and Current Cosmological Orthodoxy: 4. Discovery of the CMB 5. CMB phenomenology 6. Standard 'textbook' history and its shortcomings 7. Emergence of precision cosmology Part III. What Constitutes an Unorthodoxy? Epistemological Framework of Cosmology: 8. Underdetermination of theories and models in cosmology 9. Was the CMB a smoking gun? 10. Classifying and analysing unorthodoxies Part IV. Moderate Unorthodoxies: The CMB with the Big Bang: 11. Cold and tepid big bangs: population iii objects 12. Models with unresolved sources 13. Thermalization by grains, the first wave 14. Primordial chaos 15. Early intergalactic medium, massive population III objects and the large-numbers hypothesis 16. Late thermalization of starlight 17. 'An excess in moderation': high-baryon universe Part V. Radical Unorthodoxies: The CMB Without the Big Bang: 18. Motivations: who's afraid of the big (bad) bang? 19. Hoyle-narlikar theory and the changing masses origin of the CMB 20. Revised steady state 21. Closed steady-state models 22. CMB in plasma cosmology 23. CMB in non-expanding models Part VI. Formation of the Orthodoxy and the Alternatives: Epistemological Lessons: 24. History and epistemology: the emergence of orthodoxy 25. What about the alternatives? 26. Pragmatic aspects of model-building and social epistemology of cosmology 27. Large-scale numerical simulations in cosmology: beyond the theory-observations distinction? Part VII. Other Philosophically Relevant Aspects of the CMB: 28. CMB and copernicanism: 'the axis of evil' and 'the fingers of god' 29. The 'problem of other observers' and anthropic reasoning 30. The nature of boundary conditions in cosmology, the CMB, and the 'laws of nature' debate 31. CMB and the multiverse: limits of scientific realism? Appendix 1: relativistic cosmological models Appendix 2: dipole anisotropy Notes References Index.
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