Cosmology and the universe

This book describes the basic concepts of supersymmetric theories.

A complete overview of this field from the frontiers of theoretical physics research for graduate students and researchers.

This book presents the Projective approach to de Sitter Relativity.

Gamma-ray bursts are the most violent events since the birth of 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 handbook is a comprehensive, systematic source of modern nuclear physics.

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

The goal of this essay is to discuss the future of discovery in particle physics.

"e;From the formation of the Universe to today, countless major events have changed the course of life on Earth.

Will we ever discover a single scientific theory that tells us everything that has happened, and everything that will happen, on every level in the Universe?

This book is an attempt to share some of the fascinating and exciting ideas of modern theoretical physics with a non-mathematical audience.

This book describes the development of dark matter theory for cosmologists, astronomers and particle physicists.

This book provides a largely self-contained and broadly accessible exposition on two cosmological applications of algebraic quantum field theory (QFT) in curved spacetime: a fundamental analysis of the cosmological evolution according to the Standard Model of Cosmology; and a fundamental study of the perturbations in inflation.

Scientific Cosmology is clearly one of the most active physics research fields at present, and likely to remain so in the near future.

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

Since the 1980s the cross-disciplinary, multidimensional field of links between cosmology and particle physics has been widely recognised by theorists, studying cosmology, particle and nuclear physics, gravity, as well as by astrophysicists, astronomers, space physicists, experimental particle and nuclear physicists, mathematicians and engineers.

Modern research has demonstrated that many stars are surrounded by planets-some of which might contain the right conditions to harbor life.

Das Universum ist riesig, dunkel, weitgehend unerforscht - und wahnsinnig spannend.

Tensors, Relativity, and Cosmology, Second Edition, combines relativity, astrophysics, and cosmology in a single volume, providing a simplified introduction to each subject that is followed by detailed mathematical derivations.

Originally published in 1899, The History of Creation was the first book of its kind to apply a doctrine to the whole range of organic morphology and make use of the effect Darwin had on biological sciences during the 19th century.

This textbook provides an introduction to gravitational lensing, which has become an invaluable tool in modern astrophysics, with applications that range from finding planets orbiting distant stars to understanding how dark matter and dark energy conspired to form the cosmic structures we see today.

Documenting the different formulations of general relativity, this book reveals valuable insight into the nature of the gravitational force.

In describing the effects of mescaline, Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception opened a proverbial door for a generation of seekers.

This book addresses foundational questions raised by observational and theoretical progress in modern cosmology for a broad academic audience.

In order to outline possible future directions in galaxy research, this book wants to be a short stopover, a moment of self-reflection of the past century of achievements in this area.

Since 1975, the triennial Marcel Grossmann Meetings have been organized in order to provide opportunities for discussing recent advances in gravitation, general relativity and relativisitic field theories, emphasizing mathematical foundations, physical predictions, and experimental tests.

A pedagogical and accessible introduction to numerical relativity, the key tool to model gravitational waves and black hole mergers.

Humanity's ongoing quest to unlock the secrets of dark matter and dark energyHeart of Darkness describes the incredible saga of humankind's quest to unravel the deepest secrets of the universe.

These three lectures cover a certain aspect of complexity and black holes, namely the relation to the second law of thermodynamics.

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

This book summarizes recent developments in the research area of quantum gravity phenomenology.

The book reviews theories of nucleosynthesis in big-bang cosmology.

A provocative and inspiring look at the future of humanity and science from world-renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin ReesHumanity has reached a critical moment.

This book presents methods of studying transonic flows applicable to various astrophysical circumstances.

The search for a quantum theory of the gravitational field is one of the great open problems in theoretical physics.

From time immemorial, poets and philosophers have looked in awe and wonder at the Universe.

A lucid introduction for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, and an authoritative overview for researchers and professional scientists.

This work is an introduction to the totality of the metaphysical philosophy of nature of Hedwig Conrad-Martius (1888-1966).

General Relativity has passed all experimental and observational tests to model the motion of isolated bodies with strong gravitational fields, though the mathematical and numerical study of these motions is still in its infancy.

This thesis reports on the search for dark matter in data taken with the ATLAS detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

This textbook highlights mechanisms, properties, observations, and research progress of solar and stellar rotation.

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This 21st volume in the series contains 15 invited reviews and highlight contributions presented during the 2008 International Scientific Conference of the German Astronomical Society on the topic of "e;New Challenges to European Astronomy"e;, held in Vienna, Austria.

The exciting discoveries and newest revelations in the field of archeoastronomy present fascinating examples of the importance of astronomy to the ancient Maya Civilization.

This invaluable book presents selected papers of S Chandrasekhar, co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983 and a scientific giant well known for his prolific and monumental contributions to astrophysics, physics and applied mathematics.

One of the open challenges in fundamental physics is to combine Einstein's theory of general relativity with the principles of quantum mechancis.