Cosmology and the universe

This thesis covers several theoretical aspects of WIMP (weakly interacting massive particles) dark matter searches, with a particular emphasis on colliders.

The book is based on the author's PhD thesis, which deals with the concept of time in quantum gravity and its relevance for the physics of the early Universe.

The heavens are alive with breathtaking beauty: from the incandescent surface of the Sun to the shimmering tail of a comet; the birth of planets to the death of stars; the dancing shadows of Jupiter's moons to the silhouettes of eclipses.

This volume gives a unified picture of the multifaceted subject of superradiance, with a focus on recent developments in the field, ranging from fundamental physics to astrophysics.

Antimatter is one of the most fascinating aspects of Particle Physics, and matter-antimatter annihilation the most energetic process in the universe.

This work celebrates the investigative power of phenomenology to explore the phenomenological sense of space and time in conjunction with the phenomenology of intentionality, the invisible, the sacred, and the mystical.

This thesis represents a unique mix of theoretical work discussing the Lorentz theory of gravity and experimental work searching for supersymmetry with the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

This book evaluates and suggests potentially critical improvements to causal set theory, one of the best-motivated approaches to the outstanding problems of fundamental physics.

Carlo Rovelli setzt der griechischen Antike ein Denkmal: als Geburtsstunde der modernen Wissenschaft.

This book offers a paradigm-shifting exploration of lawmaking for the complex interactions between Earth systems and outer space.

This book provides an updated understanding of the progress and current problems in the interplay between fundamental physics, astrophysics and cosmology.

Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out.

This book is a treatise on time and on background independence in physics.

A history of how scientific ideas have transformed international politics since 1550.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book explores what makes the conditions on Earth ''just right'' to sustain life.

Focusing on the ultimate limits of observational astronomy, Harwit explores how well we will ever understand the Universe.

With the aid of entertaining short stories, anecdotes, lucid explanations and straight-forward figures, this book challenges the perception that the world of physics is inaccessible to the non-expert.

This book collates papers presented at two international conferences (held at the Australian National University in 2018 and Birkbeck College London in 2019) exploring the relationships between big history and astrobiology and their wider implications for society.

This book, the first in a three-volume set, explains general relativity using the mathematical tool of differential geometry.

"e;A complete introduction to the geometric code of nature, written and illustrated by the most perceptive of its modern investigators.

Regarding his discoveries, Sir Isaac Newton famously said, "e;If I have seen further it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

This book presents more than 200 problems, with detailed guided solutions, spanning key areas of particle physics and astrophysics.

It is time for International Relations (IR) to join the relational revolution afoot in the natural and social sciences.

Big History is a new field on a grand scale: it tells the story of the universe over time through a diverse range of disciplines that spans cosmology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and archaeology, thereby reconciling traditional human history with environmental geography and natural history.

Providence and Science in a World of Contingency offers a novel assessment of the contemporary debate over divine providential action and the natural sciences, suggesting a re-consideration of Thomas Aquinas' metaphysical doctrine of providence coupled with his account of natural contingency.

After an extensive introduction to the asymptotic safety approach to quantum gravity, this thesis explains recent key advances reported in four influential papers.

This concise book reviews methods used for gluing space-time manifolds together.

Reviews recent developments in the analysis of isotropic spherical random fields, with a view towards applications in cosmology.

This book presents a novel mathematical formalism, based on the tetrad formulation of differential geometry, for describing cosmological observables exactly and conveniently.

This book is a gentle introduction for all those wishing to learn about modern views of the cosmos.

This book examines how our understanding of the cosmos advanced rapidly during the twentieth century and identifies factors contributing to this progress.

Questo libro fornisce una panoramica completa dello sviluppo della fisica dei raggi cosmici, con considerazioni storiche e didattiche, dalle prime prove dell'esistenza della radiazione extraterrestre fino alle più recenti applicazioni dei muoni cosmici in diversi aspetti della vita quotidiana.

Inflation has revolutionized cosmology primarily because it has eliminated the dependence of cosmological modelling on initial conditions.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Kosmologie und Kosmogonie" verfügbar.

This thesis describes the use of the angular distributions of the most energetic dijets in data recorded by the ATLAS experiment, at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the goal of which is to search for phenomena beyond what the current theory of Particle Physics (the Standard Model) can describe.

This edited volume presents the current state of gas accretion studies from both observational and theoretical perspectives, and charts our progress towards answering the fundamental yet elusive question of how galaxies get their gas.

This book offers a detailed and stimulating account of the Lagrangian, or variational, approach to general relativity and beyond.

The successes of the standard models of particle physics and cosmology are many, but have proven incapable of explaining all the phenomena that we observe.

This graduate textbook describes the physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background, arguably the most important topic in modern cosmology.

For centuries, our ancestors carefully observed the movements of the heavens and wove that astronomical knowledge into their city planning, architecture, mythology, paintings, sculpture, and poetry.

Viele meinen, dass die Welten der Astronomie und der Ökonomie keine Gemeinsamkeiten aufweisen.

The Astrophotography Manual's Third Edition is the most up to date and authoritative guide for enthusiasts who want to create beautiful images of nebulas, galaxies, clusters, and the stars with the latest professional tools and techniques.

Harry Cliff rockt das UniversumEin Apfelkuchen besteht aus Mehl, Butter, Zucker, Äpfeln – chemisch betrachtet aber aus zahllosen Atomen, die alle einen Ursprung haben müssen.

In Let There Be Light, Howard Smith, a research astrophysicist and traditionally observant Jew, explores how modern scientific understandings of the cosmos complement Judaism's ancient mystical theology, the Kabbalah.

This book presents contributions from an internal symposium organized to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Specola Vaticana, or Vatican Observatory, in the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo.

This thesis studies the properties of the Higgs particle, discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012, in order to elucidate its role in electroweak symmetry breaking and cosmological phase transition in the early universe.

The authors of this volume have been intimately connected with the conception of the Big Bang model since 1947.