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The Invisible Universe: Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Publication year: 2007

ISBN: 978-3-540-71013-4

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The last two chapters of the book present Eshelby's sophisticated theory in a didactically accessible way, knowledge of which is very important from a formative point of view. This theory, in fact, has an astonishing number of practical applications and allows many results of the elastic continuum to be reunited in a single formal structure of general validity.


Subject: Physics and Astronomy, Cosmology, Dark matter, Gravity, Particle Physics, Universe, astrophysics, dark energy, early universe, general relativity, quantum physics, relativity, standard cosmological model, string theory