Simulating the Cosmos is a behind-the-scenes look into one of the hottest and fastest-moving areas of astrophysics today: simulations of cosmology and galaxy formation, which illustrate how everything we see in the universe arose out of the primordial soup of the Big Bang.
Leading cosmologist Romeel Dave guides you through the trials and tribulations of what it takes to put the universe into a computer, the amazing new insights revealed by cosmological simulations, and the many mysteries yet to be solved. This rollicking and extraordinary journey is a rare glimpse into science in action, showing how cosmologists are using the laws of physics and supercomputers to uncover the secrets of why the universe looks the way it does.
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Building imaginary universes in a supercomputer has been a great success of modern astronomy. Here we have one of the world's masters of this numerical alchemy giving us both the science and the personal story behind our current understanding of how galaxies like the milky way came to exist. * John Peacock, Professor of Cosmology at the University of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal Society, and winner of the Shaw Prize *
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978-1-78914-744-5 (9781789147445)
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Romeel Dave holds the Chair of Physics at the University of Edinburgh. Born in California, he has lived around the world including eight U.S. states, India, South Africa and now Scotland.
