Calibrating the Cosmos How Cosmology Explains Our Big Bang Universe /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Levin, Frank S. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Σειρά: Astronomers’ Universe Series,
• Θέματα: Physics.; Gravitation.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.

Calibrating the Cosmos describes hard science, but is gently written. It explains in clear, non-mathematical language the measurements and the interpretation of the resulting data that have led to the current understanding of the origin, evolution and properties of our expanding Big Bang universe. M...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction: The Splendid Science
• Measuring Distances: On the Earth, in the Solar System, to the Nearby Stars
• Light, Radiation, and Quanta
• Stars: Attributes, Energetics, End Stages
• The Expanding Universe
• Homogeneous, Isotropic Universes
• The Parameters of the Universe
• The Early Universe
• Conjectures.