Cosmology and the universe

This book offers a paradigm-shifting exploration of lawmaking for the complex interactions between Earth systems and outer space.

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The Encyclopedia of Scientific and Technic.

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 is a thorough, very readable and excellently illustrated biography of Willem de Sitter (1872-1934), one of the most influential astronomers of his time, and also a co-author and correspondent of Einstein.

Ever wonder how Earth has survived this long?

This book explores young people's experiences of social control and the state, especially those living at the margins of society within the UK.

This unique book contains a biographical portrait, accounts of Chandrasekhar's role and impact on modern science, historical perspectives and personal reminiscences, several of which appeared in Physics Today, and reviews by leading experts in areas which Prof.

This book describes the basic concepts of supersymmetric theories.

A comprehensive introduction to the theory underpinning our study of active galactic nuclei and the ways we observe them.

This volume contains the proceedings from the conference "e;The Labyrinth of Star Formation"e; that was held in Crete, Greece, in June 2012, to honour the contributions to the study of star formation made by Professor Anthony Whitworth of Cardiff University.

On July 4, 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva madehistory when they discovered an entirely new type of subatomic particle that many scientists believe is the Higgs boson.

The aim of this book is to analyze the all important implications of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle for a finite universe with very large mass-energy content such as ours.

This volume discusses the latest developments in the quantum theory of gravity.

Thoroughly revised and updated introduction to past and present cosmological theory.

Chow introduces the mathematical methods essential to understanding and applying general relativity--tensor calculus, some differential geometry, etc.

Do a little armchair time-travel, rub elbows with a four-dimensional intelligent life form, or stretch your mind to the furthest corner of an uncharted universe.

In this book, leading theorists present new contributions and reviews addressing longstanding challenges and ongoing progress in spacetime physics.

Self-contained and comprehensive, this definitive new edition provides a complete overview of the intersection of gravity, supergravity, and superstrings.

This book presents fundamentals, equations, and methods of solutions of relativistic kinetic theory, with applications in astrophysics and cosmology.

How did our modern picture of the universe come into being?

Reviews the historical development of all the key areas of modern astrophysics.

Presents the particle dynamics relevant to general relativity, and the field dynamics necessary to understand the theory, to advanced undergraduates.

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 fascinating book provides an accessible and up-to-date overview of modern cosmology.

This book is an enhanced and expanded English edition of the treatise "e;Fondamenti matematici e analisi numerica della dinamica di un Universo isotropo,"e; published by the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino in volume no.

A paperback edition of a classic text for graduates and researchers in relativity, theoretical physics, astrophysics and mathematics.

This thesis reports on the search for dark matter in data taken with the ATLAS detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

These peer-reviewed NIC XV conference proceedings present the latest major advances in nuclear physics, astrophysics, astronomy, cosmochemistry and neutrino physics, which provide the necessary framework for a microscopic understanding of astrophysical processes.

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

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).

Targeting advanced students of astronomy and physics, as well as astronomers and physicists contemplating research on supernovae or related fields, David Branch and J.

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This book treats the subject of gravitational waves (GWs) production in binary stars or black-holes and in the early universe, using tools of quantum field theory which are familiar to graduate students and researchers in particle physics.

This text provides a quantitative introduction to general relativity for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

Incorporating recent discoveries in particle astrophysics, this updated edition provides an overview of high-energy cosmic rays, gamma-ray and neutrino astronomy.

Just as the six branches of a snow crystal converge in regular proportions toward their common center, the six contributions to this book point toward a future philosophy of cosmic life.

This volume tells of the quest for cosmology as seen by some of the finest cosmologists in the world.

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.

Fully updated, this new edition provides a uniquely interdisciplinary overview of Earth''s history and evolution for Earth science undergraduates.

This text provides a quantitative introduction to general relativity for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

This book starts with the mathematical basis of the theory - i.

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The dark matter problem is one of the most fundamental and profoundly difficult to solve problems in the history of science.

In physics, the idea of extra spatial dimensions originates from Nordstom's 5-dimensional vector theory in 1914, followed by Kaluza-Klein theory in 1921, in an effort to unify general relativity and electromagnetism in a 5 dimensional space-time (4 dimensions for space and 1 for time).

Existentialism asks some of the most fundamental questions about human existence: What gives our lives meaning and value?

"e;General Relativity Without Calculus"e; offers a compact but mathematically correct introduction to the general theory of relativity, assuming only a basic knowledge of high school mathematics and physics.