| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
1. Physics as an Art Form; 2. Science as a Sport; 3. The Bothersome Question of Units; 4. The Scientific Method; Mass, energy, and momentum; 5. The Three Relativities; The Twin Paradox; 6. A First, Fast Visit to the Universe; The Cosmic Background Radiation; The constituents of matter; The sizes of things; The first additional character: The neutrino; Doubling the cast of players, an interlude on antimatter; How elementary is an elementary particle? 7. More on the Fundamental Forces and Their "Carriers"Electromagnetism; Gravity and the "inertial" and "gravitational" masses; The weak force; Chromodynamics, the strong interaction; The confinement of quarks and gluons; 8. Everything ... So Far; 9. A Parenthesis on Quantum Mechanics; 10. Understanding Relativity and Quantum Mechanics; 11. Spin, Statistics, Supernovae, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes; The spin-statistics theorem; 12. Parallel Realms; The November Revolution; The third family; 13. A Parenthesis on "R2 QFTs"; The Mother of all Concepts; 14. The Unification of Forces SerendipityGauge Theories; 15. A Parenthesis: Is Basic Science Useful?; 16. Back to the Twins; Why the Twin Paradox is so paradoxical; Twins according to Einstein; Back to experiments, doable or not; The algebra behind the relativity of time; 17. Some Instruments of Macro-Physics; Microwave antennas and satellites; Gravitational-wave interferometers; 18. The Discovery of Gravitational Wave Emission; 19. The Direct Detection of GravitationalWaves; References; 20. Some Instruments of Micro-Physics; 21. The LHC and its Detectors; 22. The "Higgs" Boson, and its Field in the "Vacuum" The Mother of all SubstancesMaking Higgs Bosons; 23. Today's Standard Models of Particles and Gravity; 24. The Expansion of the Universe; Some tempting misconceptions; Distances and redshifts in cosmology; 25. Finding Cosmic Fossils; 26. Where is the Cosmic Antimatter?; 27. More on the Cosmic Background Radiation (CBR or CMB); Analysis of the CBR anisotropies; 28. Problems with the "Old" Big Bang Theory; 29. Inflation; Inflationary predictions; 30. Limitations and Peculiarities of the Standard Models; 31. The Discrete Symmetries of the Fundamental Interactions; 32. Dark Matter. Gravitational lensing 33. The Origin of "Structures"; 34. The Fate of the Universe; 35. Back to the Ether?; 36. The Crash; 37. In Spite of Our Admitted Ignorance |
| Summary |
A richly illustrated book on fundamental physics, cosmology, black holes, Higgs bosons, and time travel for a wide audience. This guide for an enjoyable visit to the Universe is humorous but not a joke. It establishes clear distinctions between things we know for sure and things that we know we do not know. In this sense, it is scientifically honest |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 17, 2018) |
| Subject |
Cosmology.
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cosmology.
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SCIENCE -- Cosmology.
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Cosmology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192550170 |
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0192550179 |
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