Astronomy, space and time

Since 1975, the Marcel Grossmann Meetings have been organized to provide opportunities for discussing recent advances in gravitation, general relativity and relativistic field theories, emphasizing mathematical foundations, physical predictions and experimental tests.

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

These proceedings provide a summary of the state-of-the-art in the understanding of physical processes which control galaxy formation.

This volume presents introductory lectures on the Standard Model and Higgs physics, as well as QCD.

The book collects 29 papers which have been particularly influential in the development of accretion theory.

This is a most important review volume providing a summary of black hole physics in the last 25 years.

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

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

This book presents methods of studying transonic flows applicable to various astrophysical circumstances.

This volume deals with the fundamental concepts of space, time and matter.

The first of its kind, the Symposium on the Future of the Universe and the Future of our Civilization examined the current status and future evolution of the Universe, the Galaxy, the stars and the Sun.

The book's principal aim is to clarify fundamental concepts, decipher mathematical structures used to model space-time and relativistic worlds, and to disclose their physical meaning.

This is a book that fills the gap between Newtonian gravitation and sophisticated, relativistic theories.

The main topics covered by the book regard the new developments of the methods and computer architectures in the field of Data Analysis in Astronomy and Astrophysics.

This book describes in a non-technical language, one of the success stories of modern (twentieth-century) astronomy.

Accretion disks in compact stellar systems containing white dwarfs, neutron stars or black holes are the principal laboratory for understanding the role of accretion disks in a wide variety of environments from proto-stars to quasars.

At a moderately advanced level, this book seeks to cover the areas of clustering and related methods of data analysis where major advances are being made.

At present, although most of the optical design processes are automated with the aid of computer software, the fundamental question of how we can generate the initial optical configuration such that it can be dealt with by the computer remains.

This book offers an original hypothesis capable of unifying evolution in the physical universe with evolution in biology; herewith it lays the conceptual foundations of "e;transdisciplinary unified theory"e;.

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

This book gives an exposition of both the old and new results of spin and torsion effects on gravitational interactions with implications for particle physics, cosmology etc.

This volume of important papers by one the world's leading astrophysicists provides a sweeping survey of the incisive and exciting applications of nuclear and particle physics to a wide range of problems in astrophysics and cosmology.

The series of Oskar Klein Memorial Lectures is a must-read for those keenly involved or simply interested in exploring the many fascinating aspects of Physics.

This book describes the subject of electrodynamics at classical as well as quantum level, developed as an interaction at a distance.

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

This volume comprises original and review articles on the frontier problems of the gravitation theory, theoretical and mathematical physics.

Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays carry information about their sources and the intervening medium apart from providing a beam of particles for studying certain features of high energy interactions currently inaccessible at man-made accelerators.

Over the last three decades, a spate of solar wind observations have been made with sophisticated ground-based and space-borne instruments.

This book deals with special relativity theory and its application to cosmology.

This is the first book to deal with Titan, one of the most mysterious bodies in the solar system.

Most of the knowledge of ancient Greek science survived through Byzantine codices.

With a Foreword by Steven WeinbergIn this richly illustrated book, Nobel Laureate Gerard 't Hooft and Theoretical Physicist Stefan Vandoren describe the enormous diversity of natural phenomena that take place at different time scales.

Since the 1980s the cross-disciplinary, multidimensional field of links between cosmology and particle physics has been widely recognised by theorists, studying cosmology, particle and nuclear physics, gravity, as well as by astrophysicists, astronomers, space physicists, experimental particle and nuclear physicists, mathematicians and engineers.

This unique volume is a collection of papers on various problems in astrophysics and cosmology - from planetary motion to the arrow of time - that are closely linked by the common spirit, technique and methodology of chaos.

This book provides an up-to-date understanding of the progress and current problems of the interplay of nonlocality in the classical theories of gravitation and quantum theory.

The problem of time is a central feature of quantum cosmology: differing from ordinary quantum mechanics, in cosmology there is nothing "e;outside"e; the system which plays the role of clock, and this makes difficult the obtention of a consistent quantization.

This book is an introduction to pulsars, a key area in high energy astrophysics with continuing potential for fundamental discoveries.

This is the proceedings of an international conference on the evolution of matter in the Universe, with emphasis on the following topics: big bang nucleosynthesis, cosmic ray nucleosynthesis, stellar nucleosynthesis, galactic chemical and dynamical evolution, and evolution with redshift and cosmic chemical evolution in general.

Two theories revolutionized the 20th century view of space and time: Einstein's general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.

This volume presents the newest results and developments in the fast-moving field of astroparticle physics.

It is generally felt in the cosmology and particle astrophysics community that we have just entered an era which later can only be looked back upon as a golden age.

Gamma ray astronomy, the branch of high energy astrophysics that studies the sky in energetic y-ray photons, is destined to play a crucial role in the exploration of nonthermal phenomena in the Universe in their most extreme and violent forms.

The objective of the workshop series "e;The Identification of Dark Matter"e; is to assess critically the status of work attempting to identify what constitutes dark matter; in particular, to consider what techniques are currently being used, how successful they are, and what new techniques are likely to improve the prospects for identifying dark matter candidates in the future.

A group of leading experts in the field of starbursts and active galactic nuclei have joined hands to produce this review volume which covers the starburst-AGN connection, and the tests to be carried out with the upcoming new astronomical facilities to ascertain the relevance of both components to the formation and evolution of galaxies.

This book presents a series of delightful interviews in which natural objects such as an electron, a black hole, a galaxy, and even the vacuum itself, reveal their innermost secrets - not only what they are but also how they feel.

This book provides an authoritative overview of the developments in gravitomagnetism which have taken place in the last few years.

This is an invaluable collection of colloquium-type lectures given by some of the most prominent theoretical physicists of today.

This book discusses many of the recent theoretical and observational developments that have significant implications for astronomy and astrophysics.

The PASCOS (International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology) series brings together the leading experts and most active young researchers in the closely related fields of elementary particle physics, string theory and cosmology/astrophysics.

This book constitutes the proceedings of a very topical workshop aimed at understanding the shapes of the baryonic and dark matter components of galaxies.