Inflationary cosmology revisited : an overview of contemporary scientific cosmology after the inflationary proposal / Julio A. Gonzalo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gonzalo, Julio A. (Julio Antonio)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inflationary universe.

Cosmology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (120 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Scientific Cosmology is clearly one of the most active physics research fields at present, and likely to remain so in the near future. Shortly after the pioneering cosmological work of Einstein, Georges Lemaitre proposed a model which some years later to be known as the big-bang model. In the early fifties an alternative proposal, the so called steady-state (expansion at constant density) model, became the fashionable model in prominent academic circles. The discovery of the cosmic background microwave radiation (Penzias & Wilson, 1965) made the steady-state model almost untenable. A quarter o

Contents:

Foreword; Prologue; Contents; Chapter 1 Steady State versus Big Bang Cosmology; Chapter 2 The Microwave CBR; Chapter 3 The Birth of Inflationary Cosmology; Chapter 4 The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE); Chapter 5 Dark Matter, Cosmic Flatness & Accelerated Expansion; Chapter 6 The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP); Chapter 7 On the Monopole, Flatness and Horizon Problems; Chapter 8 An Alternative to Inflation?; Appendix How close are the cosmic times for matter/radiation equality and for atom formation?; A Brief Glossary; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611896980

9781281896988

1281896985

9789812701237

9812701230

OCLC:

476063645