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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
Author: Measurement of the Large-scale Anistropy of the Cosmic Background Radiation at 3mm
Author: Gerald Lewis EpsteinPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
3K: The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Author: R. B. PartridgePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521352541
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
A review covering all aspects of the study of the cosmic background radiation remnant of the hot Big Bang origin of the Universe.
The Cosmic Background Radiation and Fundamental Physics
Author: F. MelchiorriPublisher:
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Category : Astrophysics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology
Author: Helge KraghPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192549979
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Scientific and popular literature on modern cosmology is very extensive; however, scholarly works on the historical development of cosmology are few and scattered. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of the history of cosmology from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. It provides historical background to what we know about the universe today, including not only the successes but also the many false starts. Big Bang theory features prominently, but so does the defunct steady state theory. The book starts with a chapter on the pre-Einstein period (1860-1910) and ends with chapters on modern developments such as inflation, dark energy and multiverse hypotheses. The chapters are organized chronologically, with some focusing on theory and others more on observations and technological advances. A few of the chapters discuss more general ideas, relating to larger contexts such as politics, economy, philosophy and world views.
Los Alamos Science
Author: Nobel Lectures In Physics (2006-2010)
Author: Lars BrinkPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814612707
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This volume is a collection of the Nobel lectures delivered by the prizewinners, together with their biographies and the presentation speeches by Nobel Committee members for the period 2006-2010. The criterion for the Physics award is to the discoverer of a physical phenomenon that changed our views, or to the inventor of a new physical process that gave enormous benefits to either science at large or to the public. The biographies are remarkably interesting to read and the Nobel lectures provide detailed explanations of the phenomena for which the Laureates were awarded the Nobel Prize.Aspiring young scientists as well as more experienced ones, but also the interested public will learn a lot from and appreciate the geniuses of these narrations.List of prizewinners and their discoveries:(2006) to John C Mather and George F Smoot “for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation” The very detailed observations that the Laureates have carried out from the COBE satellite have played a major role in the development of modern cosmology into a precise science.(2007) to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg “for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance” Applications of this phenomenon have revolutionized techniques for retrieving data from hard disks. The discovery also plays a major role in various magnetic sensors as well as for the development of a new generation of electronics. The use of Giant Magnetoresistance can be regarded as one of the first major applications of nanotechnology.(2008) to Yoichiro Nambu “for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics“, and to Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa “for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature” Why is there something instead of nothing? Why are there so many different elementary particles? The Laureates presented theoretical insights that give us a deeper understanding of what happens far inside the tiniest building blocks of matter.(2009) to Charles Kuen Kao “for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication“, and to Willard S Boyle and George E Smith “for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit — the CCD sensor” Kao's discoveries have paved the way for optical fiber technology, which today is used for almost all telephony and data communication. Boyle and Smith have invented a digital image sensor — CCD, or charge-coupled device — which today has become an electronic eye in almost all areas of photography.(2010) to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene” The Laureates have shown that a thin flake of ordinary carbon, just one atom thick, has exceptional properties that originate from the remarkable world of quantum physics.
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 119, No. 4, 1975)
Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422371077
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Particle Physics and Cosmology: Dark Matter
Author: M. SrednickiPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0444596097
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
At least eighty percent of the mass of the universe consists of some material which, unlike ordinary matter, neither emits nor absorbs light. This book collects key papers related to the discovery of this astonishing fact and its profound implications for astrophysics, cosmology, and the physics of elementary particles. The book focuses on the likely possibility that the dark matter is composed of an as yet undiscovered elementary particle, and examines the boundaries of our present knowledge of the properties such a particle must possess.
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