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On the shores of the unknown: a short history of the universe

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Main Author:	Silk, Joseph 1942- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 2005
Edition:	1. publ.
Subjects:	Astrofysica Heelal Kosmologie Cosmology Astrophysics
Online Access:	Table of contents Publisher description Inhaltsverzeichnis
Item Description:	Includes index.
Physical Description:	viii, 246 p. ill. (some col.)
ISBN:	0521836271

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adam_text	ON THE SHORES OF THE UNKNOWN A SHORT HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE JOSEPH SILK UNIVERSITY OF OXFOID CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS CONTENTS PROLOGUE PAGE 1 1 BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE COSMOS 5 1.1 COSMOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES 5 1.2 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE 9 1.3 BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE UNIVERSE 11 1.4 THE GALAXIES 22 1.5 THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT SKY 24 2 EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE 26 2.1 THE DOPPLER SHIFT 26 2.2 THE DISTANCE TO THE NEAREST STARS 28 2.3 THE REDSHIFT-DISTANCE RELATION 31 2.4 UNLOCKING THE EXTRAGALACTIC DISTANCE SCALE 33 2.5 -WHAT IS THE HUBBLE CONSTANT? 39 2.6 STEADY STATE COSMOLOGY 41 3 COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND 47 3.1 THE DISCOVERY 48 3.2 BLACKBODY RADIATION 50 3.3 THE ISOTROPY OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND 52 3.4 THE EPOCH OF THERMALISATION 53 3.5 THE LAST SCATTERING EPOCH 54 3.6 FLUCTUATIONS 56 4 THE FIRST 10~ 43 SECOND OF THE UNIVERSE 59 4.1 SINGULARITIES 59 4.2 THE QUANTUM VACUUM 61 4.3 FUNDAMENTAL FORCES 64 VI CONTENTS 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 PAIR CREATION PARTICLES AND WAVES MINI-BLACK HOLES THE PLANCK SCALE GRAND UNIFICATION HIGHER DIMENSIONS SYMMETRY BREAKING AND INFLATION WHY IS THE UNIVERSE SO UNIFORM? THE FLATNESS PROBLEM ANTHROPIC ISSUES GENESIS OF BARYONS AND HELIUM 5.1 THE MATTER-ANTIMATTER PUZZLE 5.2 GENERATION OF THE BARYON NUMBER 5.3 PROTON DECAY EXPERIMENTS 5.4 THE WEAK INTERACTION FREEZE-OUT 5.5 PRIMORDIAL NUCLEOSYNTHESIS 5.6 HELIUM SYNTHESIS TESTING THE BIG BANG 6.1 THE DENSITY OF THE UNIVERSE 6.2 CURVED SPACE AND GENERAL RELATIVITY 6.3 COSMOLOGICAL TESTS 6.4 IMPEDIMENTS TO THE TESTS DARK MATTER 7.1 LOCAL INDICATORS OF DARK MATTER 7.2 LUMINOUS REGIONS OF GALAXIES 7.3 GALAXY HALOS 7.4 GALAXY GROUPS, CLUSTERS, AND SUPERCLUSTERS 7.5 LARGE-SCALE FLOWS AND DARK MATTER 7.6 A UNIVERSE AT THE CRITICAL DENSITY? 7.7 DEUTERIUM AND THE BARYON DENSITY 7.8 THE LITHIUM PUZZLE 66 67 69 70 72 73 75 80 82 82 85 86 89 91 92 93 95 97 97 102 106 110 113 114 115 117 118 118 120 122 124 7.9 WIMPS: EXOTIC PARTICLE DARK MATTER 7.10 DARK ENERGY BARYONIC DARK MATTER 8.1 LIFE AFTER THE MAIN SEQUENCE: WHITE DWARFS 8.2 THE FORMATION OF A NEUTRON STAR 8.3 OBSERVING NEUTRON STARS 8.4 BROWN DWARFS 8.5 BLACK HOLES 8.6 ARE HALOS BARYONIC? 8.7 MACHOS: ASTROPHYSICAL DARK MATTER? INTERGALACTIC MATTER 9.1 RECOMBINATION AND DECOUPLING 9.2 THE SEARCH FOR THE INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM 9.3 INTERGALACTIC CLOUDS 9.4 INTRACLUSTER GAS 9.5 DARK BARYONS CONTENTS VLL 125 129 132 133 135 137 139 140 152 154 158 158 159 161 164 165 10 ORIGIN OF STRUCTURE 170 10.1 SMALL FLUCTUATIONS 170 10.2 COLD DARK MATTER AND BOTTOM-UP FORMATION 172 10.3 A RADICAL VIEW: FROM COSMIC PANCAKES AND FILAMENTS TO GALAXIES 176 10.4 ORIGIN OF THE FLUCTUATIONS 181 10.5 A LOW DENSITY UNIVERSE? , 184 10.6 DETECTION OF TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATIONS 187 10.7 THE WHISPERS OF CREATION 190 11 LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE 193 11.1 THE GREATEST STRUCTURES: GALAXY CLUSTERS 193 11.2 VOIDS AND SHEETS 196 11.3 LARGE-SCALE FLOWS REVISITED 198 11.4 THE CHALLENGES OF COLD DARK MATTER 202 VLLL CONTENTS 11.5 DARK ENERGY AND COLD DARK MATTER 204 11.6 PROBLEMS WITH COLD DARK MATTER 208 11.7 HOT AND COLD, OR MERELY WARM 211 11.8 DEFECTS AND BRANES 212 12 GALAXY FORMATION 219 12.1 FORMATION OF THE STARS 219 12.2 DYING STARS 223 12.3 SUPERNOVA REMNANTS AND ENRICHMENT 225 12.4 THE FIRST STARS 227 12.5 CHEMICAL EVOLUTION 230 12.6 FORMATION OF ELLIPTICAL AND SPIRAL GALAXIES 232 12.7 GALAXY MERGERS 233 12.8 THE COSMOLOGICAL HIERARCHY 235 13 WHAT LIES AHEAD 237 INDEX 242 PLATE SECTION BETWEEN PAGES 152-153
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