Cosmology and the universe

The observation, in 1919 by A.

Fascinating guide for beginning amateur astronomers using small telescopes in the northern and southern hemisphere.

Rhodri Evans tells the story of what we know about the universe, from Jacobus Kapteyn's Island universe at the turn of the 20th Century, and the discovery by Hubble that the nebulae were external to our own galaxy, through Gamow's early work on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and its subsequent discovery by Penzias and Wilson, to modern day satellite-lead CMB research.

Explores ancient biology and cosmology as two sciences that shed light on one another in their goals and methods.

Galaxies represent the most readily visible fabric of the cosmos.

A complete text on the physics of gamma-ray bursts, the most brilliant explosions since the Big Bang.

An account of classic and contemporary aspects of astrophysics, with an emphasis on analytical calculations and physical understanding.

One of today's leading astronomers takes readers inside the decades-long search for the first galaxies and the origin of starlightAstronomers are like time travelers, scanning the night sky for the outermost galaxies that first came into being when our universe was a mere fraction of its present age.

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 highlights the review of articles in theoretical physics by the students of Professor K.

Written by leading scientists in the field and intended for a broader readership, this is an ideal starting point for an overview of current research and developments.

Although everyone is familiar with the concept of time in everyday life and has probably given thought to the question of how time began, recent scientific developments in this field have not been accessible in a simple understandable form.

You're no idiot, of course.

Supernovae are highly energetic phenomena for which it is necessary to use simultaneously particle physics, nuclear physics and hydrodynamics to study the creation of the strong explosions involved.

Absolute concepts of time and energy are integral to standard thermal physics, but background independent systems are devoid of them.

Originally published in English in 1973.

This book presents a high-level study of cosmology with interacting dark energy and no additional fields.

This book consists of invited reviews written by world-renowned experts on the subject of the outskirts of galaxies, an upcoming field which has been understudied so far.

"e;Cosmos truly is a work that will captivate and inspire readers of all ages.

Gerard and Antoinette de Vaucouleurs are among the most prominent and respected astronomers of this century.

This book takes a reader on a tour of astronomical phenomena: from the vastness of the interstellar medium, to the formation and evolution of stars and planetary systems, through to white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes, the final objects of the stellar graveyard.

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.

Surveying key developments and open issues in cosmology for graduate students and researchers.

This book provides an extensive survey of all the physics necessary to understand the current developments in the field of fundamental cosmology, as well as an overview of the observational data and methods.

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.

A critical assessment of the standard cosmological model and its main challenger, modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND).

This is volume 6 of Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems, a six-volume compendium of modern astronomical research, covering subjects of key interest to the main fields of contemporary astronomy.

In »Kosmologie« vermitteln der theoretische Astrophysiker und Kosmologe Josef M.

Einstein's general theory of relativity is introduced in this advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate level textbook.

This book offers a study of the three evolutions in a circle (cosmos, life, and knowledge) with the aim of discussing human social behavior, a metaphor of the general behavior of nature (from which man derives) within the fluctuating equilibrium between the opposite tendencies to cohesion and shredding; a circularity revealing an indefinite and probably never conclusive run-up of human beings to the knowledge of nature; an analysis that demonstrates any theoretical/practical impossibility to formulate absolute certainties, since it depicts a situation in which man finds himself hovering between a rational way of living and the contradictory modus operandi of mythos.

John and Philosophy: A New Reading of the Fourth Gospel offers a Stoic reading of the Fourth Gospel, especially its cosmology, epistemology, and ethics.

Ever since 1911, the Solvay Conferences have shaped modern physics.

A theoretical physicist returns by train from a conference, his eyes fixed on a paper on quantum cosmology.

An introductory guide to navigating your way around the night sky and identifying what you can see on any given night.

This book presents the basic fundamentals of descriptive archaeoastronomy and its application to the astronomical descriptions found in ancient Indian scriptures.

This is an open access title.

This volume presents the newest results and developments in the fast-moving field of astroparticle physics.

This book is a collection of lectures given in July 2007 at the Les Houches Summer School on "e;String Theory and the Real World: From particle physics to astrophysics.

Thoroughly updated to include exciting discoveries from spacecraft missions and laboratory analyses, as well as new teaching resources.

Introducing the theoretical ideas, observational methods and results in dark energy, this textbook is a thorough introduction to dark energy for graduate courses.

Reproduced in print for the first time, this book combines both volumes of Barnard''s Atlas.

Copernicus (1938) presents an account of the astronomer Copernicus, and of the historic book in which he laid the foundations of the heliocentric theory of the planetary motions.

Thoroughly updated to include exciting discoveries from spacecraft missions and laboratory analyses, as well as new teaching resources.

This book presents the most common types of instabilities arising in classical field theories, namely tachyonic, Laplacian, ghost-like or strong coupling instabilities, also commenting on their quantum implications.

This volumes in the Greenwood Guides to the Universe series covers the current scientific understanding of the creation and evolution of the universe.

'Gravity, a Geometrical Course' presents general relativity (GR) in a systematic and exhaustive way, covering three aspects that are homogenized into a single texture: i) the mathematical, geometrical foundations, exposed in a self consistent contemporary formalism, ii) the main physical, astrophysical and cosmological applications, updated to the issues of contemporary research and observations, with glimpses on supergravity and superstring theory, iii) the historical development of scientific ideas underlying both the birth of general relativity and its subsequent evolution.

Ongoing studies in mathematical depth, and inferences from `helioseismological' observations of the internal solar rotation have shown up the limitations in our knowledge of the solar interior and of our understanding of the solar dynamo, manifested in particular by the sunspot cycle, the Maunder minimum, and solar flares.