The infinite cosmos : questions from the frontiers of cosmology
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The infinite cosmos : questions from the frontiers of cosmology
Oxford University Press, 2008
- : pbk.
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Includes index
"First published as an Oxford University paperback 2008"-- t.p. verso
hbk版(first published 2006)は別書誌<BA76837915>
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In The Infinite Cosmos Joseph Silk takes the reader on a tour of the universe, past, present, and future, showing how the very latest observations and theories are unlocking clues about its origin and structure: X-ray, radio, and high-energy views of space are revealing fossil radiation left over from the big bang and providing us with unprecedented views of the most distant reaches of the universe. Theories from the frontiers of current research seek to explain its structure from the first moments to the present day, and we are beginning to understand its extraordinary nature and possible fate.
This is a story involving the visible and the invisible; subatomic particles and unusual forces; long ages of darkness and spectacular and violent events. It tells of supernovae, dark matter, dark energy, curved spacetime, colliding galaxies, and supermassive black holes. Weaving the ideas of poets and writers as well as scientists into the story, from Kant and Keats to Einstein and Lema^itre, Silk explains our present state of knowledge, and how much more there is to understand about our infinite cosmos.
目次
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Perspectives
- 3. Principles
- 4. Our neighbourhood
- 5. The universe of galaxies
- 6. The invisible cosmos
- 7. Supermassive black holes and the birth of galaxies
- 8. Clusters and clustering
- 9. Space is nearly flat
- 10. Dark energy and the runaway universe
- 11. The panacea of cold dark matter
- 12. Origins
- 13. The seeds of structure
- 14. Beyond the beginning
- 15. Towards the infinite universe
- 16. From time to time machines
- 17. A brief moment in time
- 18. Into the infinite future
- 19. And so to God
- 20. Where next?
- Index
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