The Music of the Big Bang : The Cosmic Microwave Background and the New Cosmology
Publication year: 2008
ISBN: 978-3-540-78728-0
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Most cosmological information is encoded in the cosmic background radiation by acoustic oscillations in the dense plasma that filled the primordial Universe: a "music" of the big bang, which cosmologists have long been trying to reconstruct and analyze, in order to distinguish different cosmological models, much like one can distinguish different musical instruments by their timbre and overtones. Only lately, this amazing cosmic sound has been unveiled by such experiments as BOOMERANG and MAXIMA and, more recently, by the WMAP satellite. This led to a giant leap in our understanding of the Universe, but the investigation is not ended yet.
Subject: Physics and Astronomy, Big Bang, Cosmic microwave background radiation, Cosmology, Cosmology explained, Early universe, Universe, Popular Science in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
