The History of the Universe

• Main Author: Lyth, David H. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Astronomers' Universe,
• Subjects: Popular works.; Cosmology.; Astronomy.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.

This book gives an accessible account of the history of the Universe; not only what happened, but why it happened. An author of textbooks on the early Universe and inflation, David Lyth now explains both cosmology and the underlying physics to the general reader. The book includes a detailed account...

Table of Contents:

• The universe
• Before we begin
• The fundamental theories
• Atoms and electromagnetism
• The present universe
• Collisions and decays
• A first look at the history
• Energy density of the universe
• In the beginning
• Onward to the present
• The imperfect universe
• Ripples in the universe
• Formation of galaxies and clusters
• The Higgs field
• Inflation
• Generating the perturbations
• Prehistory of the Big Bang
• What about us?. .