The Weight of the Vacuum A Scientific History of Dark Energy /
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of cosmic acceleration due to dark energy, a discovery that is all the more perplexing as nobody knows what dark energy actually is. We put the modern concept of cosmological vacuum energy into historical context and show how it grew out...
Main Authors: | Kragh, Helge S. (Author), Overduin, James M. (Author) |
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Corporate Author: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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Series: | SpringerBriefs in Physics,
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Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
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