Finding the Big Bang (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Peebles, P. James E.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Cosmology, the study of the universe as a whole, has become a precise physical science, the foundation of which is our understanding of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) left from the big bang. The story of the discovery and exploration of the CMBR in the 1960s is recalled for the first time in this collection of 44 essays by eminent scientists who pioneered the work. Two introductory chapters put the essays in context, explaining the general ideas behind the expanding universe and fossil remnants from the early stages of the expanding universe. The last chapter describes how the confusion of ideas and measurements in the 1960s grew into the present tight network of tests that demonstrate the accuracy of the big bang theory. This book is valuable to anyone interested in how science is done, and what it has taught us about the large-scale nature of the physical universe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511512551
• Artikelnr.: 38201301

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. A guide to modern cosmology; 3. Origins of the cosmology of the 1960s; 4. Recollections of the 1960s Dave Hogg
Neville Woolf
George B. Field
Patrick Thaddeus
Donald E. Osterbrock
Yuri Nikolaevich Smirnov
Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov
Andrei Georgievich Doroshkevich
Rashid Alievich Sunyaev
Malcolm S. Longair
Arno Penzias
Robert W. Wilson
Bernard F. Burke
Kenneth C. Turner
P. James E. Peebles
David T. Wilkinson
Peter G. Roll
R. Bruce Partridge
Malcolm S. Longair
John Faulkner
Robert V. Wagoner
Martin Rees
Geoffrey R. Burbidge
Jayant V. Narlikar
David Layzer
Michele Kaufman
Jasper V. Wall
John Shakeshaft
William Welch
Kazimir S. Stankevich
Paul Boynton
Robert A. Stokes
Martin Harwit
Judith L. Pipher
Kandiah Shivanandan
Rainer Weiss
Jer-tsang Yu
Rainer K. Sachs
Arthur M. Wolfe
Joe Silk
George F. R. Ellis
Ronald N. Bracewell
Edward K. Conklin
Stephen Boughn
Karl C. Davis
Paul S. Henry; 5. Cosmology and the CMBR since the 1960s Dick Bond; Appendixes; Glossary; References; Index.