Cosmology

• Main Author: Liebscher, Dierck-Ekkehard (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 210
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

Cosmology deals with the current state of thinking about the basic questions at the center of the field of cosmology. More emphasis than usual is put on the connections to related domains of science, such as geometry, relativity, thermodynamics, particle physics, and - in particular - on the intrins...

Table of Contents:

• Basics
• Relativity
• Expansion
• Cosmometry
• Matter and Radiation
• Standard Synthesis
• Inflation
• Structure Formation and Evolution
• Higher Dimensions
• Topological Quasi-particles
• Quantum Cosmology
• MACHian Aspects
• Anthropic Aspects.