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Enjoy our universe : you have no other choice / Alvaro de Rújula ; original illustrations by Alvaro de Rújula.
LIBRA QB981 .D437 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Rújula, A. (Alvaro), author, illustrator.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cosmology.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 202 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- A richly illustrated book on fundamental physics, cosmology, black holes, Higgs bosons, and time travel for a wide audience. This guide for an enjoyable visit to the Universe is humorous but not a joke. It establishes clear distinctions between things we know for sure and things that we know we do not know. In this sense, it is scientifically honest.
- Contents:
- Physics as an Art Form
- Science as a Sport
- The Bothersome Question of Units*
- The Scientific Method
- The Three Relativities
- A First, Fast Visit to the Universe
- More on the Fundamental Forces and Their "Carriers"
- Everything . . . So Far
- A Parenthesis on Quantum Mechanics
- Understanding Relativity and Quantum Mechanics
- Spin, Statistics, Supernovae, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes
- Parallel Realms
- A Parenthesis on "R²QFTs"**
- The Unification of Forces
- A Parenthesis : Is Basic Science Useful?
- Back to the Twins
- Some Instruments of Macro-Physics
- The Discovery of Gravitational Wave Emission
- The Direct Detection of Gravitational Waves
- Some Instruments of Micro-Physics
- The LHC and its Detectors
- The "Higgs" Boson, and its Field in the "Vacuum"
- Today's Standard Models of Particles and Gravity
- The Expansion of the Universe
- Finding Cosmic Fossils
- Where is the Cosmic Antimatter?
- More on the Cosmic Background Radiation (CBR or CMB)
- Problems with the "Old" Big Bang Theory**
- Inflation
- Limitations and Peculiarities of the Standard Models
- The Discrete Symmetries of the Fundamental Interactions***
- Dark Matter
- The Origin of "Structures"
- The Fate of the Universe
- Back to the Ether?
- The Crash
- In Spite of Our Admitted Ignorance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Electronic version: De Rújula, A. (Alvaro). Enjoy our universe.
- ISBN:
- 9780198817802
- 0198817800
- OCLC:
- 1017587821
- Publisher Number:
- 99978270156
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