Cosmology and the universe

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 ?

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

Inflation has revolutionized cosmology primarily because it has eliminated the dependence of cosmological modelling on initial conditions.

'Why'?

In some of his most famous works, John Philoponus (c.

This book offers construction of a renormalizable effective theory of electroweak-interacting spin-1 dark matter (DM).

Gibt es neben unserem noch andere Universen?

This book presents the most common types of instabilities arising in classical field theories, namely tachyonic, Laplacian, ghost-like or strong coupling instabilities, also commenting on their quantum implications.

This book summarizes recent developments in the research area of quantum gravity phenomenology.

"e;The Library of Babel"e; is arguably Jorge Luis Borges' best known story--memorialized along with Borges on an Argentine postage stamp.

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.

Presents a detailed analysis of modified theories of gravity, discussing their development, cosmological and astrophysical implications and outstanding challenges.

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

Major new discoveries in space are made almost weekly and there is so much for any new enthusiast to learn and explore.

This book, now in a revised and updated second edition, explains the theory of special and general relativity in detail without approaching Einstein's life or the historical background.

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 volume addresses the history and epistemology of early modern cosmology.

This volume is concerned with the broad areas related to high energy astrophysics stressing the processes in the compact objects and active galaxies.

Lee Smolin offers a new theory of the universe that is at once elegant, comprehensive, and radically different from anything proposed before.

This book presents thermal field theory techniques, which can be applied in both cosmology and the theoretical description of the QCD plasma generated in heavy-ion collision experiments.

This monograph tackles three challenges.

This book explores the use of numerical relativity (NR) methods to solve cosmological problems, and describes one of the first uses of NR to study inflationary physics.

This volume comprises lectures delivered at the First Equatorial School of Relativistic Astrophysics.

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

Revised second edition for advanced undergraduate students in astronomy and astrophysics.

This volume includes general reviews of recent developments in particle physics, cosmology, solar neutrinos, selected topics in astroparticle theory, new methods and projects in underground physics (such as gallium-germanium solar neutrino detector SAGE, Underground Scintillation Telescope, and EAS array "e;Carpet"e;), dark matter and double beta decay searches.

Keeping in mind that we can only see the universe from the comfort of our home galaxy, Bascom begins his text by meticulously laying the necessary groundwork to understand the Big Bang's mathematics without using any equations.

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

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

This book deals with neutrino physics and astrophysics - a field in which some of the most exciting recent developments in particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology took place.

This book presents the proceedings of The International Workshop on Frontiers in High Energy Physics (FHEP 2019), held in Hyderabad, India.

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.

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Despite the success of general relativity in explaining classical gravitational phenomena, several problems at the interface between gravitation and high energy physics still remain open.

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

Plain-language explanations and a rich set of supporting material help students understand the mathematical concepts and techniques of astronomy.

This book comprehensively describes recent developments in the research of renormalizable quantum gravity, focusing on its application to physics beyond the Planck scale, particularly in inflationary cosmology.

The Cosmic Mystery Tour takes us on a lightning tour of the mysteries of the universe enlivened by brief stories of the colourful characters who created modern science.

This book looks at both the strengths and weaknesses of the current big-bang model in explaining certain puzzling data.

This book presents Einstein's theory of space and time in detail, and describes the large-scale structure of space, time and velocity as a new cosmological special relativity.

A stunning ebook with clear navigation for admirers of astrophotography.

An introduction to cosmic magnetic fields on a range of astrophysical and cosmological scales for young researchers and graduate students.

A comprehensive, up-to-date textbook integrating experimental results, including discovery of the Higgs boson, to convey the excitement of particle physics.

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.

In Assembling Life, David Deamer addresses questions that are the cutting edge of research on the origin of life.

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.

Prominent intellectuals and public figures explore the dynamics of development, offering varying perspectives from a range of fields.

Introducing the theoretical ideas, observational methods and results in dark energy, this textbook is a thorough introduction to dark energy for graduate courses.