Cosmology and the universe

Graduate textbook examining the theory of the cosmic microwave background and its recent progress.

Written by foremost experts, this short book gives a clear description of the physics of quantum black holes.

This handbook is a comprehensive, systematic source of modern nuclear physics.

This book contains the elaborated and updated versions of the 24 lectures given at the 43rd Saas-Fee Advanced Course.

Zurück in die VergangenheitWeiße Löcher sind das Gegenteil von Schwarzen Löchern – sie sind vermutlich ihre Abkömmlinge.

This book provides a complete overview of the development of cosmic ray physics, with historical and educational considerations, from early evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial radiation up to the most recent applications of cosmic ray muons in different aspects of daily life.

This book is the first all-encompassing exploration of the role of demons inphilosophical and scientific thought experiments.

This book explores the historical relations between science and religion and discusses contemporary issues with perspectives from cosmology, evolutionary biology and bioethics.

Learn about planets, stars and black holes in The Astronomy Book.

This book provides a pedagogical introduction to the rapidly growing field of reheating after inflation.

The topic of the CVIII session of the Ecole de Physique des Houches, held in July 2017, was Effective Field Theory in Particle Physics and Cosmology.

In recent decades, twistor theory has grown into an irreplaceable tool for the study of scattering amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity.

This work is a detailed study of both the theoretical and phenomenological consequences of a massive graviton, within the ghost-free theory of massive gravity, the de Rham-Gabadadze-Tolley (dRGT) theory.

A unique graduate textbook that develops powerful approximation methods and their applications to real-life astrophysical systems.

This book explores a wide range of topics relating to scientific and religious learning in the work of Bishop Robert Grosseteste (c.

This books aims at giving an overview over theoretical and phenomenological aspects of particle astrophysics and particle cosmology.

This volume addresses the history and epistemology of early modern cosmology.

This book provides a comprehensive and instructive coverage of particle physics in the early universe, in a logical way.

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

Introduction to Astronomy & Cosmology is a modern undergraduate textbook, combining both the theory behind astronomy with the very latest developments.

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

Targeting advanced students of astronomy and physics, as well as astronomers and physicists contemplating research on supernovae or related fields, David Branch and J.

This book offers a new approach to design theory and practice that draws on Indigenous knowledges, methodologies and methods, presenting concepts of decolonising and Indigenous design that are interweaved as theory, storytelling, and practices.

"e;A personal, brilliant, and often amusing account"e; of the universe and our place in it, and "e;an idiosyncratic, encyclopedic blitzkrieg of a book"e; (The Boston Globe).

Of all philosophers of the 20th century, few built more bridges between academic disciplines than Karl Popper.

I first had a quick look, then I started reading it.

This self-contained textbook brings together many different branches of physics--e.

Dive into a mind-bending exploration of the physics of black holesBlack holes, predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity more than a century ago, have long intrigued scientists and the public with their bizarre and fantastical properties.

This volume documents the theoretical and observational results and arguments in favour of (or against) the most preferred models of structure formation.

Few figures loom as large as Albert Einstein in our contemporary culture.

This book provides a remarkable and complete survey of important questions at the interface between theoretical particle physics and cosmology.

Describes global non-inertial frames in special and general relativity and provides a detailed description of mathematical methods.

Presents the observations that helped establish our theories of the cosmos, from a unique and engaging perspective.

This book provides an introduction to Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of strong interactions.

Topological defects formed at symmetry-breaking phase transitions play an important role in many different fields of physics.

Leading astrophysicists give personal accounts of their work and desire to understand our Universe.

Did the Universe have a beginning?

This book gives an intermediate level treatment of quantum field theory, appropriate to a reader with a first degree in physics and a working knowledge of special relativity and quantum mechanics.

We have entered a new era of nature.

Pourquoi les étoiles brillent-elles ?

Cosmology's journey to the present day has been a long one.

The lectures that four authors present in this volume investigate core topics related to the accelerated expansion of the Universe.

This book addresses supergravity and supergravity-motivated effective field theories in the context of cosmological model building.

This volume is the latest in a prominent biannual series of scientific meetings on the exciting research topics of dark matter and, more recently, of dark energy.

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 year's GIFT Seminar reviewed some recent developments and new perspectives on Quantum Gravity and Quantum Cosmology.

It is commonly held that there is no place for the 'now' in physics, and also that the passing of time is something subjective, having to do with the way reality is experienced but not with the way reality is.

Relativistic hydrodynamics is a very successful theoretical framework to describe the dynamics of matter from scales as small as those of colliding elementary particles, up to the largest scales in the universe.