Finding the big bang

著者

• Peebles, P. J. E. (Phillip James Edwin)
• Page, Lyman A.
• Partridge, R. B.

書誌事項

Finding the big bang

P. James E. Peebles, Lyman A. Page, and R. Bruce Partridge

Cambridge University Press, c2009

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Cosmology, the study of the universe as a whole, has become a precise physical science, the foundation of which is our understanding of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) left from the big bang. The story of the discovery and exploration of the CMBR in the 1960s is recalled for the first time in this collection of 44 essays by eminent scientists who pioneered the work. Two introductory chapters put the essays in context, explaining the general ideas behind the expanding universe and fossil remnants from the early stages of the expanding universe. The last chapter describes how the confusion of ideas and measurements in the 1960s grew into the present tight network of tests that demonstrate the accuracy of the big bang theory. This book is valuable to anyone interested in how science is done, and what it has taught us about the large-scale nature of the physical universe.

目次

• 1. Introduction
• 2. A guide to modern cosmology
• 3. Origins of the cosmology of the 1960s
• 4. Recollections of the 1960s Dave Hogg, Neville Woolf, George B. Field, Patrick Thaddeus, Donald E. Osterbrock, Yuri Nikolaevich Smirnov, Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, Andrei Georgievich Doroshkevich, Rashid Alievich Sunyaev, Malcolm S. Longair, Arno Penzias, Robert W. Wilson, Bernard F. Burke, Kenneth C. Turner, P. James E. Peebles, David T. Wilkinson, Peter G. Roll, R. Bruce Partridge, Malcolm S. Longair, John Faulkner, Robert V. Wagoner, Martin Rees, Geoffrey R. Burbidge, Jayant V. Narlikar, David Layzer, Michele Kaufman, Jasper V. Wall, John Shakeshaft, William Welch, Kazimir S. Stankevich, Paul Boynton, Robert A. Stokes, Martin Harwit, Judith L. Pipher, Kandiah Shivanandan, Rainer Weiss, Jer-tsang Yu, Rainer K. Sachs, Arthur M. Wolfe, Joe Silk, George F. R. Ellis, Ronald N. Bracewell, Edward K. Conklin, Stephen Boughn, Karl C. Davis, Paul S. Henry
• 5. Cosmology and the CMBR since the 1960s Dick Bond
• Appendixes
• Glossary
• References
• Index.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA89768994
• ISBN:
  • 9780521519823
• LCCN: 2008049448
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Cambridge
• ページ数/冊数: xvi, 571 p.
• 大きさ: 26 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : QB991.C64
  • DC22 : 523.1
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Cosmic background radiation
  • LCSH : Big bang theory
  • LCSH : Cosmology