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