The book describes the branch of astrophysics in which processes in the universe are investigated with experimental methods ...
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Calibrating the Cosmos describes hard science, but is gently written. It explains in clear, non-mathematical language the ...
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Contains this book lectures by world experts in the various branches of this field corresponding to lectures presented during ...
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The Sixth International Symposium "Frontiers of Fundamental and Computational Physics", Udine, Italy, 26-29 September 2004, ...
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In the early 1900s, Albert Einstein formulated two theories that would forever change the landscape of physics: the Special ...
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The dark matter problem is one of the most fundamental and profoundly difficult to solve problems in the history of science. ...
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Cosmic microwave background radiation is the residue of the great heat following the Big Bang. A tenuous sign, over 13 billion ...
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The biggest questions in astronomy are those of how the planets, stars, galaxies, and the Universe were formed. ORIGINS describes ...
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Astronomers have used telescopes, operating at the visible wavelengths that we see with our eye, to reveal the true extent ...
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This book offers a succinct and self-contained treatment of general relativity and its application to neutron stars, black ...
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A lot has been written about the history of the universe, from the Big Bang through the evolution of galaxies and stars, ...
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Most cosmological information is encoded in the cosmic background radiation by acoustic oscillations in the dense plasma ...
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Terms such as "expanding Universe", "big bang", and "initial singularity", are nowadays part of our common language. ...
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