Weaving the universe : is modern cosmology discovered or invented? / Paul S. Wesson.
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- Language:
- English
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- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Jersey ; London ; Singapore : World Scientific, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This new book is a thorough but short review of the history and present status of ideas in cosmology. It is aimed at a broad audience, but will contain a few equations where needed to make the argument exact. The coverage of cosmological ideas will focus mainly on the period from the early 1900's when Einstein formulated relativity and when his colleague Sir Arthur Eddington was creating relativistic models of the universe. It ends with the completion of the Large Hadron Collider in late 2008, having surveyed modern ideas of particle physics and astrophysics. To organize the large body of
- Contents:
- Other Books by Paul S. Wesson; PREFACE; CONTENTS; Chapter 1 WEAVING THE WARP; Chapter 2 PUZZLES OF PHYSICS; Chapter 3 THE MEANING OF DIMENSIONS; Chapter 4 TIME AS AN ILLUSION; Chapter 5 THE NATURE OF MATTER; Chapter 6 SCIENCE AND RELIGION: IMMISCIBLE?; Chapter 7 WEAVING THE WEFT; INDEX
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- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
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- 9786613144805
- 9781283144803
- 1283144808
- 9789814313957
- 9814313955
- OCLC:
- 741492845
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