
With String Theory to the Big Bang
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The history of the universe has fascinated mankind for centuries. Using the interplay of cosmology, general relativity, particle physics and quantum theory, it is today possible to reconstruct it physically. Only the beginning, the big bang, has so far eluded the established laws of physics. The more one approaches it, the more speculative the story becomes. With this book, the reader is invited on a journey to the Big Bang learning on the way about various physical facts, observations and theories. String theory is introduced as a possible all-encompassing physical theory that has the potential to grasp and describe the Big Bang. Its sometimes spectacular predictions, such as additional spatial dimensions or parallel universes, are explained concisely.
This Springer essential is a translation of the original German 1st edition essentials, Mit der Stringtheorie zum Urknall by Jan Louis, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2021. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.
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Prof. Jan Louis studied physics in Karlsruhe, London and Philadelphia and subsequently worked as a research associate at Stanford, CERN and the University of Munich. From 1996-2002 he held a professorship at the University of Halle and since 2003 he has been at the University of Hamburg, where he heads the Cluster of Excellence "Quantum Universe".
Content
- Intro
- What You Can Find in This essential
- Preface
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Expanding Universe
- 2.1 The Observation
- 2.2 The Theoretical Description: Einstein's General Theory of Relativity
- 3 The Building Blocks of Matter
- 3.1 The Geiger-Marsden-Rutherford Experiment
- 3.2 The Quantum Theory
- 3.3 Particle Accelerators
- 3.4 The Standard Model of Particle Physics
- 4 The Big Bang Theory: The Standard Model of Cosmology
- 4.1 The Formation of Hydrogen and Helium
- 4.2 The Cosmic Background Radiation
- 4.3 Dark Matter
- 4.4 The Formation of Stars and Galaxies
- 4.5 Black Holes
- 4.6 Gravitational Waves
- 5 String Theory
- 5.1 The Necessity of a Quantum Gravity
- 5.2 The Basic Idea of String Theory
- 5.3 Open Questions of String Theory
- 5.4 Additional Spatial Dimensions
- 5.5 String Theory and Mathematics
- 5.6 Unification: Extensions of the Standard Model
- 5.7 String Theory and Dark Energy
- 6 The Very Early Universe from the Big Bang to 10-10 seconds
- 6.1 Post-Planck Era and Inflation
- 6.2 With String Theory to the Big Bang: The Planck Era
- 7 Summary and Outlook
- What You Learned From This Essential
- Further Reading
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