Cosmology and the universe

It is with great joy that we present a collection of essays written in honour of Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, who completed 60 years of age on July 19, 1998, by his friends and colleagues, including several of his for- mer students.

Time is considered as an independent entity which cannot be reduced to the concept of matter, space or field.

From the ancient origins of astronomy to the Copernican revolution, and from Galileo to Hawking's research into black holes, The Story of Astronomy charts the discoveries made by some of the greatest minds in human history, and their attempts to unveil the secrets of the stars.

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.

'Why'?

This book explores the role of singularities in general relativity (GR): The theory predicts that when a sufficient large mass collapses, no known force is able to stop it until all mass is concentrated at a point.

A clear, concise, and highly accessible account of the latest ideas on the origin and early evolution of the universe.

The first systematic explanation of canonical methods in gravity for graduate students and researchers.

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

If you have ever wanted to understand the basic principles of astronomy and celestial movements, you should read this book.

Explains the fundamentals of astronomy together with the hottest current topics in this field, such as exoplanets and gravitational waves.

Our universe seems strangely 'biophilic,' or hospitable to life.

Like prior editions of the book - but even more so - A Briefer History of Time will guide non-scientists everywhere in the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space .

Long-listed for the 2016 PEN/E.

The attempt to understand the nature of particle physics at the weak scale is the major goal of the current generation of collider facilities.

Focusing on the ultimate limits of observational astronomy, Harwit explores how well we will ever understand the Universe.

This book explores the mechanics of star formation, the process by which matter pulls together and creates new structures.

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.

Use of occultation methodology for observing the Earth's atmosphere and climate has become so broad as to comprise solar, lunar, stellar, navigation and satellite- crosslink occultation methods.

This work is an introduction to the totality of the metaphysical philosophy of nature of Hedwig Conrad-Martius (1888-1966).

The Big Bang is a myth, says Paul Brockelman in this fascinating look at the spiritual side of modern cosmology.

This volume outlines the status of fundamental physics at the threshold of the 21st century.

The standard starting point in cosmology is the cosmological principle; the assumption that the universe is spatially homogeneous and isotropic.

A comprehensive graduate-level review of GRB astrophysics and its history, featuring the latest research by an international team of experts.

This book addresses the mechanism of enrichment of heavy elements in galaxies, a long standing problem in astronomy.

Dynamical systems theory is especially well-suited for determining the possible asymptotic states (at both early and late times) of cosmological models, particularly when the governing equations are a finite system of autonomous ordinary differential equations.

This book presents and defends an original and paradigm-shifting conception of formal science, natural science, and the natural universe alike, that's fully pro-science, but at the same time neither theological or God-centered, nor solipsistic or self-centered, nor communitarian or social-institution-centered, nor scientistic or science-valorizing, nor materialist/physicalist or reductive, nor-above all-mechanistic.

The study of Comet Halley in 1986 was a tremendous success for cometary science.

This is volume 6 of Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems, a six-volume compendium of modern astronomical research, covering subjects of key interest to the main fields of contemporary astronomy.

From the Big Bang to the Gaia Mission, this is a very personal history of the universe through the author's favourite 100 stars.

Imagine that two people have been chosen to be observers in a scien- tific experiment involving two photons, or quanta of light.

Ever since 1911, the Solvay Conferences have shaped modern physics.

Proceedings of the conference ''Logical Foundations of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics - Kurt Gödel''s Legacy'', held in 1996.

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

This book provides a comprehensive, self-contained introduction to one of the most exciting frontiers in astrophysics today: the quest to understand how the oldest and most distant galaxies in our universe first formed.

The discovery of life on other planets would be perhaps the most momentous revelation in human history, more disorienting and more profound than either the Copernican or Darwinian revolutions, which knocked the earth from the center of the universe and humankind from its position of lofty self-regard.

From unicorns on the Moon to UFOs piloted by Martian bees, this book chronicles some of the strangest ideas that have been put forward - and have actually been believed in -- about our universe.

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.

A fresh and more capacious reading of the Western religious tradition on nature and creation, Thinking Nature and the Nature of Thinking puts medieval Irish theologian John Scottus Eriugena (810-877) into conversation with American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).

This thesis presents several significant new results that shed light on two major puzzles of modern cosmology: the nature of inflation, the very early phase of the universe that is thought to have given rise to the large-scale structures that we observe today; and that of the current accelerated expansion.

This thesis presents the first measurement of charmed D0 meson production relative to the reaction plane in Pb-Pb collisions at the center-of-mass energy per nucleon-nucleon collision of vsNN = 2.

This book presents a groundbreaking hypothesis to answer one of the greatest scientific mysteries: How did life begin?

This thesis provides a comprehensive view of the physics of charmed hadrons in high-energy proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions.

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

This meeting gathered nine of the world's leading experts in high energy physics and cosmology.