The cyclical serpent: prospects for an ever-repeating universe
From the very dawn of history, humans have struggled with the question of cosmic destiny. Ancient cultures worldwide invoked powerful mythological images to celebrate the cyclical nature of the earth and cosmos. As Halpern shows, these persistent and provocative symbols - such as a serpent devouring...
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| Zusammenfassung: | From the very dawn of history, humans have struggled with the question of cosmic destiny. Ancient cultures worldwide invoked powerful mythological images to celebrate the cyclical nature of the earth and cosmos. As Halpern shows, these persistent and provocative symbols - such as a serpent devouring its own tail - prefigure many of the controversies that continue to rage among cosmologists today. Will the universe fade into quiescence - a static graveyard of cinders, black holes, and burnt-out suns? Or will it collapse in on itself in a colossal "Big Crunch," only to explode in another cycle of time and space? The answers to these questions are stored in the ineffable cosmos, and scientists must draw on the most ingenious advances of modern physics to solve the riddles posed by the ancients Halpern's journey leads us through the most extraordinary breakthroughs in twentieth-century physics and cosmology, and to the remarkable tools scientists employ to look backward and forward in time. He also reveals the fascinating pieces of the puzzle still missing from our picture of the universe - keys that promise to unlock our elusive destiny. What is dark matter and how much of our universe does it comprise? What is the size and age of the universe? How did events unfold in the critical seconds after the Big Bang? The answers to these and other questions will help us decipher our fate |
| Beschreibung: | XXVII, 300 S. Ill. |
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| adam_text | THE CYCLICAL SERPENT PROSPECTS FOR &N K/NWCRSC FOREWORD BY ANDREI LINDE
ALL DRAWINGS COURTESY OF FELICIA HUREWITZ PLEMVM PRESS * NEW YORK AND
LONDON CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 PART 1 THE TRADITION OF CYCLES 9 CHAPTER
1 THE ENDLESS DANCE OF SHIVA 11 INVITATION TO THE DANCE 11 CULT OF THE
SERPENT 14 GREAT YEARS 19 HARMONY OF THE SPHERES 25 WHEELS OF DESTINY 34
NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN 40 CHAPTER 2 ETERNAL RETURN 45 NIETZSCHE S
ENCOUNTER WITH ETERNITY 45 THE ATOMISM DEBATE 50 TIME S ARROW 57 XXIII
XXIV CONTENTS HEAT DEATH 62 THE RECURRENCE CONTROVERSY 64 ETERNAL RETURN
REVISITED 69 PART 2 THE MODERN VIEW OF THE COSMOS 73 CHAPTER 3 THE
EXPANDING HEAVENS 75 UNHOLY DESIGNS 75 SKYGAZERS 82 COSMIC EVIDENCE 87
THE BACKGROUND HISS OF THE GREAT SERPENT 96 CHAPTER 4 FULL OF SOUND AND
FURY 105 AN OUROBOURIC QUANDARY 105 THE FIRST FEW SECONDS 109 THE
UNIFORM SKY 113 CROSSING HORIZONS 117 THE AGE OF INFLATION 119 GALACTIC
SEEDS 127 PART 3 THE QUEST FOR OUR UNIVERSAL DESTINY 133 CHAPTER 5
MAPPING OUR FATE 135 SINGULAR GENIUS 135 FROM MASS TO MOTION 139 THE
POWER OF OMEGA 144 THE PRICE OF INFLATION 151 THE BIG CRUNCH 154
CONTENTS XXV CHAPTER 6 THE SHAPE OF CREATION 157 LONGEVITY TESTS 157
GETTING IN SHAPE 159 THE VIEW FROM FLATLAND 165 THE FIFTH DIMENSION 167
BEYOND THE FIFTH DIMENSION 169 THE COSMIC DEFICIT 171 CHAPTER 7 GALACTIC
SPEEDING TICKETS 177 THE ROBOT PITCHER 177 LADDER TO THE STARS 179 THE
GREAT DEBATE 183 SUPERNOVA SPEEDOMETERS 187 THE MAGIC OF MERLIN 189
HUBBLE TROUBLE 192 CHAPTER 8 THE SEARCH FOR MISSING MATTER 199 WEIGHING
THE UNIVERSE 199 HIDDEN PLANETS 201 STELLAR CAROUSELS 204 MACHO MEN 207
INTERGALACTIC SHADOWS 211 RUNNING HOT AND COLD 215 THE CLOSING CIRCLE
217 XXVI CONTENTS PART 4 UNRAVELING THE CYCLICAL SERPENT 219 CHAPTER 9
REVERSE PERFORMANCE 221 THE SKY IS FALLING 221 CONFRONTING COLLAPSE 222
THE CURRENTS OF TIME 227 PLAYING IT BACKWARD 232 TIME WITHOUT BOUNDARY
236 THE WORLD THAT DEVOURED ITSELF 244 CHAPTER 10 AFTER THE CRUNCH 247
THE RHYTHM OF ETERNITY 247 BEYOND THE OMEGA POINT 248 THE ENTROPY CRISIS
252 REPROCESSING SPACE 255 ONLY THE NAMES ARE CHANGED 258 SURVIVING THE
CRUNCH 261 EVERLASTING LIFE 263 CHAPTER 11 OTHER COSMOS 267 BUBBLE
UNIVERSES 267 ETERNAL INFLATION 270 THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS 273
NATURAL SELECTION 275 THE MEANING OF IT ALL 277 CONTENTS XXVII EPILOGUE
279 REFERENCES 281 RELATED READING 283 INDEX 293
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