Conversations about Astrophysics and Cosmology.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burton, Howard.

Series:

Ideas Roadshow Collections

Ideas Roadshow Collections ; v.4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astrophysics.

Cosmology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Open Agenda Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

Conversations About Astrophysics & Cosmology is a five-part Ideas Roadshow Collection of carefully-edited Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring 5 leading physicists with a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. All five books include a detailed essay setting up the different ideas and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter. The following experts have participated in this Collection:1. Roger Penrose, co-recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford;2. Scott Tremaine, Professor Emeritus of Astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Study;3. Paul Steinhardt, the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Director of the Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton University;4. Rocky Kolb, the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago;5. Justin Khoury, Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania.Howard Burton is the creator and host of Ideas Roadshow and was the Founding Executive Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and an MA in philosophy.

Contents:

Intro

Textual Note

Preface

Cosmological Conundrums

A conversation with Justin Khoury

Introduction

I. Becoming a Physicist

II. The Victim of Its Success?

III. Periodically Fiery

IV. The CMB

V. The Process of Discovery

VI. Learning from History

VII. MOND vs. Dark Matter, Part I

VIII. MOND vs. Dark Matter, Part II

IX. Why Not Both?

X. Dark Energy

XI. Personal vs. Professional

XII. Revolutionary Rumblings

Astrophysical Wonders

A conversation with Scott Tremaine

I. Personal Reflections

II. Exoplanetary Insights

III. Puzzles and Solutions

IV. Rings, Comets and Pluto

V. Investigating Stability

VI. Large-scale Issues

VII. Black Holes

VIII. Fundamental Questions

IX. Concluding Thoughts

Continuing the Conversation

A Universe of Particles

Cosmological Reflections

A conversation with Rocky Kolb

I. Cool Beginnings

II. Cosmic Inflation

III. Dark Matter

IV. Dark Energy

V. Motivational Insights

Inflated Expectations

A Cosmological Tale

A conversation with Paul Steinhardt

I. Scientific Beginnings

II. Inflationary Excitement

III. Progress, Tuned Appropriately

IV. Two Major Issues

V. Cosmological Denial

VI. Bouncing Back?

The Cyclic Universe

A conversation with Roger Penrose

I. Inadvertent Success

II. Considering Entropy

III. Mysteries and False Explanations

IV. Conformal Geometry

V. CCC: The Basic Idea

VI. Light Cones

VII. Massive Headaches

VIII. Necessary Conditions

IX. Cosmic Imprints?

X. Battling Onwards

Continuing the Conversation.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781771701785

1771701781

9781771700986

177170098X

OCLC:

1255220478