Cosmology and the universe

This extensive thesis work covers several topics, including intensity and polarization, focusing on a new polarization bias reduction method.

A stunning ebook with clear navigation for admirers of astrophotography.

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

Our vast Universe is filled with an enormous amount of matter and energy, which are the source of large gravitational potentials affecting all physical phenomena.

The main goal and impact of modern string theory is to provide a consistent quantum theory of gravity.

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.

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

A complete account of the fundamental techniques of general relativity and their application to cosmology.

Cosmology describes the evolution of the Universe and is based on a description of its beginning from quantum fluctuations.

This book provides a chronological introduction to the sciences of astronomy and cosmology based on the reading and analysis of significant selections from classic texts, such as Ptolemy's The Almagest, Kepler's Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, Shapley's Galaxies and Lemaitre's The Primeval Atom.

Gravitational physics has now become a mainstream topic in physics and physics teaching.

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.

A journey into Einstein''s world of gravity and its captivating objects: black holes, neutron stars, and gravitational waves.

Gravitational lensing is by now sufficiently well understood that it can be used as a tool of investigation in other astrophysical areas.

How does the scientific enterprise really work to illuminate the origins of life and the universe itself?

This proceedings is a follow-up for the TASI series held annually to discuss the current theoretical and experimental status in elementary particle physics.

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

This thesis describes the use of the angular distributions of the most energetic dijets in data recorded by the ATLAS experiment, at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the goal of which is to search for phenomena beyond what the current theory of Particle Physics (the Standard Model) can describe.

A religion professor elucidates the theory of the multiverse, its history, and its reception in science, philosophy, religion, and literature.

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

A contemporary and complete introduction to astrophysics for astronomy and physics majors taking a two-semester survey course.

Was war die Ursache für die Entstehung des Universums?

'Giving a talk' is one of the most important ways in which we communicate our research.

Questo libro fornisce una panoramica completa dello sviluppo della fisica dei raggi cosmici, con considerazioni storiche e didattiche, dalle prime prove dell'esistenza della radiazione extraterrestre fino alle più recenti applicazioni dei muoni cosmici in diversi aspetti della vita quotidiana.

The 2002 International Symposium on Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (CosPA2002) was held from May 31 to June 2, 2002, in Taipei, Taiwan.

This graduate textbook describes the physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background, arguably the most important topic in modern cosmology.

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

This thesis reports the measurement of muon neutrino and antineutrino disappearance and electron neutrino and antineutrino appearance in a muon neutrino and antineutrino beam using the T2K experiment.

High resolution is a key element in research in astronomy and cosmology.

How did everything around us-the air, the land, the sea, and the stars-originate?

The Fourth Edition of Introduction to Cosmology provides a concise, authoritative study of cosmology at an introductory level.

Der heißeste Kandidat auf der Suche nach der alles erklärenden «Weltformel» der Physik ist seit einigen Jahren die «M-Theorie», eine Weiterentwicklung der Stringtheorien.

Building from foundations of modern science and cosmic evolution, as well as psychological and philosophical perspectives of value and meaning, this book explores some of humanity's biggest questions:          Is the Universe about something ?

This book presents a novel mathematical formalism, based on the tetrad formulation of differential geometry, for describing cosmological observables exactly and conveniently.

This book presents lecture materials from the Third LOFAR Data School, transformed into a coherent and complete reference book describing the LOFAR design, along with descriptions of primary science cases, data processing techniques, and recipes for data handling.

This book provides a rather self-contained survey of the construction of Hadamard states for scalar field theories in a large class of notable spacetimes, possessing a (conformal) light-like boundary.

This volume gathers the content of the courses held at the Third IDPASC School, which took place in San Martino Pinario, Hospederia and Seminario Maior, in the city of Santiago de Compostela, Galiza, Spain, from January 21st to February 2nd, 2013.

An insider''s view of how the massive black hole was discovered at the Galactic Center.

This book gives an accessible account of the history of the Universe; not only what happened, but why it happened.

"e;A complete introduction to the geometric code of nature, written and illustrated by the most perceptive of its modern investigators.

A systematic and self-contained account, which adopts a geometric approach to study the solutions of Einstein''s theory of gravity.

This 2001 book explains the construction of exact soliton solutions to Einstein''s theory of gravity.

Primordial black holes (PBHs) were proposed more than 50 years ago as black holes possibly formed across a vast mass range in the early universe.

Enter the mysterious world of sixteenth-century science, where astronomers and alchemists shared laboratories.

This short book discusses the latest in terms of cosmology's knowns and unknowns and sets out to ascertain the potential of Orthodox Christian theology for accommodating the current scientific view of the universe.

This book is written from the viewpoint that a deep connection exists between cosmology and particle physics.

Die Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Menschheit im Überflug und die Beschreibung des Weges zur Rückerinnerung des vergessenen Ganzheitlichen Weltbildes.