The idea that life is a cosmic, rather than a purely terrestrial phenomenon, has progressed from scientific heresy to mainstream science within the short timespan of a few decades.
This volume contains the most important lecture notes by experts from condensed matter, particle physics and cosmology and is a MUST for young researchers and graduate students.
The subject of Quantum Cosmology is concerned with providing a quantum mechanical description of the universe as a whole and, within that description, to constructing a theory of the universe's initial condition whose predictions can be compared with observation.
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.
The proceedings present new results obtained from recent observations by the Haverah Park, Yakutsk, Fly's Eye and Akeno groups on the shape of the energy spectrum, the arrival direction (point source) and the nature of the most energetic cosmic rays.
This colloquium gathered for the first time astronomy and space scientists together with scientific editors, publishers and software producers involved in DTP publishing.
This book provides a survey of the basic ideas of the cellular automaton (CA) modelling environment, emphasising the relevance of this framework to astrophysical applications.
This book provides an updated understanding of the progress and current problems in the interplay between fundamental physics, astrophysics and cosmology.
The workshop on "e;Frontiers of Astronomy in 1990s"e; was held to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Astronomical Society.
This volume contains five mini-courses: Nakedly Singular Solutions of Einstein's Equations (K Lake); Clifford Algebras, Relativity and Quantum Mechanics (P Lounesto); Numerical Relativity and Dynamical Evolution of Black Hole Spacetimes (R Matzner); Soliton and Vacua in Relativity Theory Revisited (G W Gibbons); Cosmic Strings and Their Observational Consequences (E P S Shellard); and seventy-seven research papers by Latin American scientists.
The papers in this volume provide an updated status of the last developments and current problems in string theory in connection with gravity and the physics at the Planck scale.
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.
This volume provides an updated understanding of the progress and current problems in the interplay between fundamental physics, astrophysics and cosmology.
This workshop brought together the leaders in the field of education in astronomy and explored the newly available technologies that can make astronomy a powerful teaching tool for high school and undergraduate college students.
This international conference focussed on several exciting frontier areas of particle physics at energy scales not realizable in terrestrial accelerators and their significance in the fields of astrophysics and cosmology.
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.
This volume is composed of four major in-depth yet pedagogic review chapters on the subject of star formation, written by the foremost researchers in the field.
