Cosmology and the universe

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

In this book, David Stevenson offers us a look at the evolution of planets as they move from balls of mixed molten rock to vibrant worlds capable of hosting life.

A comprehensive overview for graduates of the theories of this contemporary development in physics.

The book collects 29 papers which have been particularly influential in the development of accretion theory.

Der Timaios ist ein Spätwerk Platons und einer seiner faszinierendsten, aber auch unzugänglichsten Dialoge.

This book discusses theoretical predictions and their comparison with experiments of extended and modified classical and quantum theories of gravity.

An authoritative introduction to the fascinating topic of archaeoastronomy-ancient peoples' understanding and use of the skies.

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

A comprehensive and authoritative introduction to contemporary cosmology for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

This book provides a concise introduction to the physics of gravitational waves.

This volume contains the talks presented at the International Workshop on Aspects of Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics (DARK '96).

A unified quantum theory incorporating the four fundamental forces of nature is one of the major open problems in physics.

Recommended for viewing on a colour tablet.

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 thesis provides a detailed and comprehensive description of the search for New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the mono-jet final state, using the first 3.

Fourth volume of multi-volume catalog of every comet observed throughout history, this volume covers comets seen from 1933 to 1959.

This book explores concepts within general relativity in the context of the particular space-times in which they arise.

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

Ideal for readers with a mathematical background, this book explores the informative power of the theory of relativity.

For the past 20 years causality violations and superluminal motion have been the object of intensive study as physical and geometrical phenomena.

This volume guides early-career researchers through recent breakthroughs in mathematics and physics as related to general relativity.

This book highlights stories of the most important 13 ground-based observatories and 14 space probes in human history, leading readers through each significant step of human's astronomical observation journey.

Creative Lives and Works: Antony Hewish, Martin Rees and Neil Turok is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England's leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane.

This book is about the dark photon which is a new gauge boson whose existence has been conjectured.

One of modern science's most famous and controversial figures, Jerzy Plebanski was an outstanding theoretical physicist and an author of many intriguing discoveries in general relativity and quantum theory.

Dieses Buch bietet eine ausführliche Darstellung der Astroteilchenphysik und der kosmischen Strahlung mit den dazugehörigen Messmethoden in der Forschung.

This book contains the proceedings of the 10th Hellenic Relativity Conference, held in Greece in 2002.

This volume presents introductory lectures on the Standard Model and Higgs physics, as well as QCD.

The Ghost in the Telescope is an insider's account of the Herschel Space Observatory, which was launched to answer two of the biggest questions in astronomy: How were the stars and galaxies born?

This book employs computer simulations of 'artificial' Universes to investigate the properties of two popular alternatives to the standard candidates for dark matter (DM) and dark energy (DE).

The only solutions manual providing students with comprehensive cross-referenced solutions to Bernard Schutz''s A First Course in General Relativity.

Eine Reise durch mehr als 14 Milliarden Jahre der Evolution: zu fernsten Planeten, die noch unerreichbar sind, und kaum bekannten Welten auf der Erde wie die Tiefsee, aber auch unser Hirn.

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 is the first to provide a comprehensive, readily understandable report on the European Space Agency's Gaia mission that will meet the needs of a general audience.

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

This book presents the first comprehensive exploration of the state of this well studied and thus unsolved mystery of the value of the Hubble constant.

A pedagogical approach to cosmology that integrates theory with computational and data-analysis techniques, to prepare readers for further research.

Pourquoi et comment l’Univers a-t-il commencé ?

The three neutrinos are ghostly elementary particles that exist all across the Universe.

This work investigates the theoretical and cosmological implications of modifying Einstein's theory of general relativity.

In this book, all physical laws are derived from a small number of invariant integrals which express the conservation of energy, mass, or momentum.

Literature and Ecotheology: From Chaos to Cosmos challenges us in a time of climate crisis to find more common ground between the dual projects of ecocriticism and ecotheology.

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

Dawkin's militant atheism is well known; his profound faith less well known In this book, atheist philosopher Eric Steinhart explores the spiritual dimensions of Richard Dawkins' books, which are shown to encompass:*       the meaning and purpose of life*       an appreciation of Platonic beauty and truth*       a deep belief in the rationality of the universe*       an aversion to both scientism and nihilism As an atheist, Dawkins strives to develop a scientific alternative to theism, and while he declares that science is not a religion, he also proclaims it to be a spiritual enterprise.

A straightforward introduction to General Relativity, explaining the physical, philosophical and mathematical ideas it is built on.

How all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the fundamental structure of the cosmos are bizarreand why that's a good thingDo we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know virtually nothing?

A pedagogical and self-contained introduction to AdS/CFT correspondence aimed at graduate students and researchers across theoretical physics.