Cosmology and the universe

This volume is dedicated to Jiri Bicak on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

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

This book discusses the upgrade of the Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector, which consists in the addition of a salt of gadolinium into the detector's water, the goal being to endow it with a very high-efficiency ability to detect neutrons: the SuperK-Gd project.

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

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.

A comprehensive review of the testing and research conducted on Einstein''s theory of general relativity.

This thesis presents theoretical and numerical studies on phenomenological description of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a many-body system of elementary particles.

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.

The Proceedings contain lectures given at the 8th annual Physics Summer School held at The Australian National University.

This thesis describes the search for Dark Matter at the LHC in the mono-jet plus missing transverse momentum final state, using the full dataset recorded in 2012 by the ATLAS Experiment.

The past two decades have observed dramatic advancement in our understanding of the universe.

This book is a historical account of how natural philosophers and scientists have endeavoured to understand the universe at large, first in a mythical and later in a scientific context.

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

A substantial update of this award-winning and highly regarded cosmology textbook, for advanced undergraduates in physics and astronomy.

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.

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

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.

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.

In our age of ecological disaster, this book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants as a linchpin for thinking about biopolitics.

The aim of this book is to give graduate students an overview of quantum gravity but it also covers related topics from astrophysics.

Everyone knows that the universe is extremely old and extremely large.

This book offers an updated comprehensive review of the rapidly expanding field of GRMHD simulations.

We read in order to know we are not alone, I once heard, and perhaps it could also be suggested that we write in order not to be alone, to endorse, to promote continuity.

What is Life?

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?

From award-winning physicist, public intellectual, and the bestselling author of A Universe from Nothing Lawrence Krauss, comes ';a masterful blend of history, modern physics, and cosmic perspective that empowers the reader to not only embrace our understanding of the universe, but also revel in what remains to be discovered' (Neil deGrasse Tyson, American Museum of Natural History).

A complete treatment of all aspects of dark matter physicsThis book provides an incisive, self-contained introduction to one of the most intriguing subjects in modern physics, presenting the evidence we have from astrophysics for the existence of dark matter, the theories for what it could be, and the cutting-edge experimental and observational methods for testing them.

Intersecting physics and philosophy of science, this book outlines the philosophical challenge to theoretical physics in a measured style.

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

Opportunities in Chemistry is based on the contributions of hundreds of American chemists in academia and industry and should be taken as the best available consensus of the chemical community regarding its intellectual frontiers and the economic opportunities that lie beyond them,"e; says Science.

An essential companion to the New York Times bestseller Welcome to the UniverseHere is the essential companion to Welcome to the Universe, a New York Times bestseller that was inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course for non science majors that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A.

This Second Edition is a comprehensive update, integrating the latest research and theoretical advancements in the field of de Sitter (dS) group representations.

An advanced textbook providing a clear mathematical introduction to general relativity and its physical applications.

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.

This book addresses one of the most intriguing mysteries of our universe: the nature of dark matter.

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

This book provides a comprehensive description of advances in the study of general relativistic instability supernovae.

A guide to the hottest topics in physics for both scientists and general readers, written by leading international experts.

The most thrilling, genre-busting, unlikely science book you ll ever read, from the world-renowned, multi-award-winning, superstar physicist Lisa Randal.

Martin Harwit''s influential book, Cosmic Discovery, is rereleased after more than 35 years, with a new Preface by the author.

This is a collection of lectures on topics in cosmology and elementary particles with emphasis on astrophysics.

This book contains the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Physics Beyond the Standard Models of Particle Physics, Cosmology and Astrophysics.

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

"e;Basic Concepts in Physics: From the Cosmos to Quarks"e; is the outcome of the authors' long and varied teaching experience in different countries and for different audiences, and gives an accessible and eminently readable introduction to all the main ideas of modern physics.

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 book gathers the lecture notes of the 100th Les Houches Summer School, which was held in July 2013.

'This is a nicely produced book which should appeal to a wide readership.