Fine-Tuning in the Physical Universe (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Sloan, David

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Is the universe fine-tuned for complexity, life, or something else? This comprehensive overview of fine-tuning arguments in physics, with contributions from leading researchers in their fields, sheds light on this often used but seldom understood topic. Each chapter reviews a specific subject in modern physics, such as dark energy, inflation, or solar system formation, and discusses whether any parameters in our current theories appear to be fine-tuned and, if so, to what degree. Connections and differences between these fine-tuning arguments are made clear, and detailed mathematical derivations of various fine-tuned parameters are given. This accessible yet precise introduction to fine-tuning in physics will aid students and researchers across astrophysics, atomic and particle physics and cosmology, as well as all those working at the intersections of physics and philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108759533
• Artikelnr.: 66181192

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. Fine-Tuning, Complexity, and Life in the
Multiverse Mario Livio and Martin Rees; 2. Hierarchy of Fine-Structure
Constants Bernard Carr; Part II. Cosmological Fine-Tunings: 3. Naturalness,
fine-tuning, and observer selection in cosmology John A. Peacock; 4. Cosmic
Inflation: Trick or Treat? Jerome Martin; 5. Is the Universal Matter-
Anti-matter Asymmetry Fine tuned? Gary Steigman and Robert J. Scherrer; 6.
Structure Formation Adrianne Slyz; Part III. Fine-tuning in Particle and
Nuclear Physics: 7. Nuclear physics and its impact on primordial and
stellar nucleosynthesis Jean-Philippe Uzan; 8. Fine-Tunings at Particle
Scales Giulia Zanderighi; 9. Dark Matter Edward W. Kolb; Part IV.
Fine-tuning for life: 10. Fine-tuning: from stars to galaxies formation
Joseph Silk; 11. How Special Is the Solar System? Mario Livio; 12. On the
Temporal Habitability of Our Universe; 13. Climbing up the theories of
Nature: Fine-Tuning and Biological Molecules Abraham Loeb.