String Theory And Cosmology - Proceedings Of The Nobel Symposium 127
Will be published approx. on 3. August 2005
Book
Hardback
108 pages
978-981-256-433-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Nobel Symposium in 2003 on String Theory and Cosmology was a gathering of many of the most active and distinguished scientists in the world, including Stephen Hawking, 2004 Nobel Prize winner David Gross, and Andrei Linde. The experts, comprising both theoreticians and experimentalists, were given the opportunity to discuss the present status of their respective subjects. Throughout the symposium, special attention was given to the connections between the fields: the questions posed ranged from "Can cosmology be used to test string theory?" to "Can string theory answer deep questions about cosmology?" The symposium marked a new era in the understanding of the science of the very small and the very large. This book is a unique document that reflects upon the state of fundamental physics at a historically important moment in time.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-981-256-433-7 (9789812564337)
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Content
# Supernovae and Dark Energy (J L Tonry) # Studying Dark Energy with Supernovae: Now, Soon, and the Not-Too-Distant Future (S Perlmutter) # What Have We Learned from Cosmic Microwave Background Fluctuations? (D N Spergel) # Quintessential Ideas (P J Steinhardt) # Prospects of Inflation (A Linde) # A Non Singular Universe (S Hawking) # Unconventional Scenarios and Perturbations Therein (G Veneziano) # Holographic Cosmology 3.0 (T Banks & W Fischler) # Bouncing Universes in String Theory? (J Polchinski) # Remarks on Tachyon Driven Cosmology (A Sen) # Beyond Inflation: A Cyclic Universe Scenario (N Turok & P J Steinhardt) # Creating Naked Singularities and Negative Energy (G T Horowitz) # Filtering Gravity: Modification at Large Distances? (G Dvali) # Cosmological Singularities in String Theory (D Kutasov) # Where Do We Stand in Fundamental (String) Theory (D J Gross)