Cosmology and the universe

This book contains contributions from the Spanish Relativity Meeting, ERE 2012, held in Guimaraes, Portugal, September 2012.

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.

Expanding on the concept of the authors' previous book "e;Electroweak Processes in External Electromagnetic Fields, this new book systematically describes the investigation methods for the effects of external active media, both strong electromagnetic fields and hot dense plasma, in quantum processes.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the methodologies and searches for dark matter (DM) annihilation signals using very-high-energy gamma rays (VHE, E > 100 GeV), utilizing data from current Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) in the pre-Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) era.

This thesis provides an introduction to the physics of the Standard Model and beyond, and to the methods used to analyse Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data.

This book shows how our new-found ability to observe the Earth from "e;the necessary distance"e; has wide and profound cultural and ethical implications.

"e;Modern physics is rife with provocative and fascinating ideas, from quantum mechanics to the multiverse.

Offers a systematic presentation of Plato''s late cosmology, showing connections to his ethics and arguments about the organic structure of the universe.

This book offers a new theological approach to the multiverse hypothesis.

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.

This book describes the development of dark matter theory for cosmologists, astronomers and particle physicists.

Applications of quantum field theoretical methods to gravitational physics, both in the semiclassical and the full quantum frameworks, require a careful formulation of the fundamental basis of quantum theory, with special attention to such important issues as renormalization, quantum theory of gauge theories, and especially effective action formalism.

This book contains a systematic exposition of the theory of spinors in finite-dimensional Euclidean and Riemannian spaces.

For centuries, our ancestors carefully observed the movements of the heavens and wove that astronomical knowledge into their city planning, architecture, mythology, paintings, sculpture, and poetry.

These three lectures cover a certain aspect of complexity and black holes, namely the relation to the second law of thermodynamics.

Humanity's ongoing quest to unlock the secrets of dark matter and dark energyHeart of Darkness describes the incredible saga of humankind's quest to unravel the deepest secrets of the universe.

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

The papers in this volume present a recent survey of important results in the field of supernovae and pulsars.

This book presents the basics of gravitational lensing, accessible to students and researchers with a wide range of backgrounds.

Fourteen years is a long time, and especially in the field of cosmology new observational results and new theoretical ideas seem to appear at a steadily increasing rate.

Over the past few years we have seen remarkable, and at times independent advances in the understanding of extended objects like strings, black holes and membranes at the 'microscopic' level.

Documenting the different formulations of general relativity, this book reveals valuable insight into the nature of the gravitational force.

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

A new look at the first few seconds after the Big Bang-and how research into these moments continues to revolutionize our understanding of our universeScientists in the past few decades have made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.

Modern physics has revealed the universe as a much stranger place than we could have imagined.

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

Mindsteps to the Cosmos shows how modern global civilization depends on giant leaps of understanding that have been made in the past.

This book describes some of the frontier problems of cosmology: our almost total ignorance of what the Universe is made up of, the mystery of its origin and its end.

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'Throughout the many ups and downs, the successes and the failures in my life, there has been a consistent and all-embracing belief that a positive attitude produces results.

It is time for International Relations (IR) to join the relational revolution afoot in the natural and social sciences.

This book takes the reader on an exploration of the Cosmos, from Mesopotamia and Egypt to China; it unveils the fascinating development of astronomy and mathematics.

A complete overview of this field from the frontiers of theoretical physics research for graduate students and researchers.

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.

Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology offers a succinct and self-contained treatment of general relativity and its application to compact objects, gravitational waves and cosmology.

This book deals mainly with gravitational physics and its application to the very early universe and models for relativistic objects.

What is time?

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

Astrophysical observations implying the existence of Dark Matter and Dark Energy, which are not described by the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, have led to extensions of the SM predicting new particles that could be directly produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.

Dark Matter, Neutrinos, and Our Solar System is a unique enterprise that should be viewed as an important contribution to our understanding of dark matter, neutrinos and the solar system.

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

These proceedings will contain both general reviews on particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology and detailed discussions on some specific topics.

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

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.

Canonical quantisation and loop quantum gravity theory for graduate students of quantum field theory.

This collection brings together fifteen essays from practitioners of a variety of disciplines that concern themselves with the past, not only historians, but scholars from other branches of the humanities and social sciences (including theology, art history, public history, and archival science) and natural sciences (including geology, paleontology, astronomy, and paleoanthropology).

This stunning collection of images and essays surveys the key breakthroughs that have shaped our understanding of the universe around us - from the discovery of the solar system, to Supermassive black holes and the remote depths of the cosmos.

This book explains the fundamental science and mathematics that has enabled cosmology to become the precise quantitative science it is today.

This book collects 30 articles on elementary particle theory, quantum field theory, general relativity and cosmology contributed by well known experts in honour of Prof.