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Title: Cosmology's century: an inside history of our modern understanding of the Universe
Creators: Peebles P. J. E.
Collection: Электронные книги зарубежных издательств; Общая коллекция
Subjects: Cosmology — History.; EBSCO eBooks
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Language: English
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Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER 1. Introduction
    • 1.1 The Science and Philosophy of Cosmology
    • 1.2 An Overview
  • CHAPTER 2. The Homogeneous Universe
    • 2.1 Einstein’s Cosmological Principle
    • 2.2 Early Evidence of Inhomogeneity
    • 2.3 Early Evidence of Homogeneity: Isotropy
    • 2.4 Early Evidence of Homogeneity: Counts and Redshifts
    • 2.5 The Universe as a Stationary Random Process
    • 2.6 A Fractal Universe
    • 2.7 Concluding Remarks
  • CHAPTER 3. Cosmological Models
    • 3.1 Discovery of the Relativistic Expanding Universe
    • 3.2 The Relativistic Big Bang Cosmology
    • 3.3 The Steady-State Cosmology
    • 3.4 Empirical Assessments of the Steady-State Cosmology
    • 3.5 Nonempirical Assessments of the Big Bang Model
      • 3.5.1 Early Thinking
      • 3.5.2 Cosmological Inflation
      • 3.5.3 Biasing
    • 3.6 Empirical Assessments of the Big Bang Model
      • 3.6.1 Time Scales
      • 3.6.2 Cosmological Tests in the 1970s
      • 3.6.3 Mass Density Measurements: Introduction
      • 3.6.4 Mass Density Measurements: Hubble to the Revolution
      • 3.6.5 Mass Density Measurements: Assessments
    • 3.7 Concluding Remarks
  • CHAPTER 4. Fossils: Microwave Radiation and Light Elements
    • 4.1 Thermal Radiation in an Expanding Universe
    • 4.2 Gamow’s Scenario
      • 4.2.1 Gamow’s 1948 Papers
      • 4.2.2 Predicting the Present CMB Temperature
      • 4.2.3 The Alpher, Bethe, and Gamow Paper
    • 4.3 Helium and Deuterium from the Hot Big Bang
      • 4.3.1 Recognition of Fossil Helium
      • 4.3.2 Helium in a Cold Universe
      • 4.3.3 Developments in 1964 and 1965
    • 4.4 Sources of Microwave Radiation
      • 4.4.1 Interstellar Cyanogen
      • 4.4.2 Detection at Bell Laboratories
      • 4.4.3 Zel’dovich’s Group
      • 4.4.4 Dicke’s Group
      • 4.4.5 Recognition of the CMB
    • 4.5 Measuring the CMB Intensity Spectrum
      • 4.5.1 The Situation in the 1970s
      • 4.5.2 Alternative Interpretations
      • 4.5.3 The Submillimeter Anomalies
      • 4.5.4 Establishing the CMB Thermal Spectrum
    • 4.6 Nucleosynthesis and the Baryon Mass Density
    • 4.7 Why Was the Hot Big Bang Cosmology Reinvented?
  • CHAPTER 5. How Cosmic Structure Grew
    • 5.1 The Gravitational Instability Picture
      • 5.1.1 Lemaître’s Solution
      • 5.1.2 Lifshitz’s Perturbation Analyses
      • 5.1.3 Nongravitational Interaction of Baryons and the CMB
      • 5.1.4 The Jeans Mass
    • 5.2 Scenarios
      • 5.2.1 Chaos and Order
      • 5.2.2 Primeval Turbulence
      • 5.2.3 Gravitational Origin of Galaxy Rotation
      • 5.2.4 Explosions
      • 5.2.5 Spontaneously Broken Homogeneity
      • 5.2.6 Initial Conditions
      • 5.2.7 Bottom-Up or Top-Down Structure Formation
    • 5.3 Concluding Remarks
  • CHAPTER 6. Subluminal Mass
    • 6.1 Clusters of Galaxies
    • 6.2 Groups of Galaxies
    • 6.3 Galaxy Rotation Curves
      • 6.3.1 The Andromeda Nebula
      • 6.3.2 NGC 311525
      • 6.3.3 NGC 300
      • 6.3.4 NGC 2403
      • 6.3.5 The Burbidges’s Program
      • 6.3.6 Challenges
    • 6.4 Stabilizing Spiral Galaxies
    • 6.5 Recognizing Subluminal Matter
    • 6.6 What Is the Nature of the Subluminal Matter?
  • CHAPTER 7. Nonbaryonic Dark Matter
    • 7.1 Hot Dark Matter
      • 7.1.1 Apparent Detection of a Neutrino Rest Mass
    • 7.2 Cold Dark Matter
      • 7.2.1 What Happened in 1977
      • 7.2.2 The Situation in the Early 1980s
      • 7.2.3 The Search for Dark Matter Detection
  • CHAPTER 8. The Age of Abundance of Cosmological Models
    • 8.1 Why Is the CMB So Smooth?
    • 8.2 The Counterexample: CDM
    • 8.3 CDM and Structure Formation
    • 8.4 Variations on the Theme
      • 8.4.1 TCDM
      • 8.4.2 DDM and MDM
      • 8.4.3 ΛCDM and τCDM
      • 8.4.4 Other Thoughts
    • 8.5 How Might It All Fit Together?
  • CHAPTER 9. The 1998–2003 Revolution
    • 9.1 The Redshift-Magnitude Test
    • 9.2 The CMB Temperature Anisotropy
    • 9.3 What Happened at the Turn of the Century
    • 9.4 The Future of Physical Cosmology
  • CHAPTER 10. The Ways of Research
    • 10.1 Technology
    • 10.2 Human Behavior
    • 10.3 Roads Not Taken
    • 10.4 The Social Construction of Science
  • References
  • Index
  • Color Plates

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