Cosmology's Century

Name: Cosmology's Century | An Inside History of Our Modern Understanding of the Universe
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An Inside History of Our Modern Understanding of the Universe

P. J. E. Peebles(Autor*in)

Princeton University Press

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Erschienen am 2. Juni 2020

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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 ?CDM and tCDM
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
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