Britannica Illustrated Science Library - Universe

8th Edition, W. H. Freeman and Company, 2008, 851 pages Known edition after edition for its state-of-the-science coverage, Universe breaks new ground in its Eighth Edition with added pedagogical support and pioneering media and supplements. It places the basics of astronomy and the process of science within the grasp of introductory students. Introducing Astronomy Knowing the Heavens Eclipses and the Motion of the Moon Gravitation and the Walt...

The University of Chicago Press, 2008, 265 Pages, ISBN: 0226283461 If scientists can’t touch the Sun, how do they know what it’s made of? And if we can’t see black holes, how can we be confident they exist? Gravitational physicist David Garfinkle and his brother, science fiction writer Richard Garfinkle, tackle these questions and more in Three Steps to the Universe, a tour through some of the most complex phenomena in the cosmos and an accessi...

World Scientific, 2011. - 488 p. This book is written from the viewpoint of a deep connection between cosmology and particle physics. It presents the results and ideas on both the homogeneous and isotropic Universe at the hot stage of its evolution and in later stages. The main chapters describe in a systematic and pedagogical way established facts and concepts on the early and the present Universe. The comprehensive treatment, hence, serves as a...

Britannica Educational Publishing + Rosen Educational Services, 2011, 96 pages Fathoming the boundlessness of space and the universe, we are immediately filled with curiosity about our own origins and wonder about the objects, life forms, and matter that populate the cosmos. Through the observations and work of astronomers over time, we have slowly been able to reduce the number of unknowns and develop explanations or theories for some of the c...

John Wiley & Sons, 2003, p.189 A (Very) Brief History of Cosmological Ideas Observational Overview Newtonian Gravity The Geometry of the Universe Simple Cosmological Models Observational Parameters The Cosmological Constant The Age of the Universe The Density of the Universe and Dark Matter The Cosmic Microwave Background The Early Universe Nucleosynthesis: The Origin of the Light Elements The Inflationary Universe The Initial S...

Oxfоrd Univеrsity Prеss, 2005, 405 pages Modern physics has revealed our knowledge of the universe as a much stranger place than we could have imagined. The puzzle at the center of our understanding of the universe is time. Michael Lockwood takes the reader on a fascinating journey into the nature of things. He investigates philosophical questions about the past, present, and future, our experience of time, and the possibility of time travel....

Springer Science and Business Media, 2012, 172 pages, ISBN: 1441988211 For over ten years, the dark side of the universe has been headline news. Detailed studies of the rotation of spiral galaxies, and 'mirages' created by clusters of galaxies bending the light from very remote objects, have convinced astronomers of the presence of large quantities of dark (unseen) matter in the cosmos. The most striking fact is that they seem to compromise ab...

Rev. ed. The Journal of the British Astronomical Association - 2005. - 288 pg. ISBN-13 978-0-540-08791-4. Content Exploring the universe The solar system The sun The stars The universe Star maps The practical astronomer

Cambridge University Press, 2006, 255 pages Spectacular observational breakthroughs by recent experiments, and particularly the WMAP satellite, have heralded a new epoch of CMB science forty years after its original discovery. Taking a physical approach, the authors probe the problem of the 'darkness' of the Universe: the origin and evolution of dark energy and matter in the cosmos. Starting with the observational background of modern cosmology,...

World Scientific Publishing, New Jersey, 2008, 293 pages Presenting the new paradigm in fuzzy spacetime, this book is based on some 100 papers published in peer-reviewed journals including Foundations of Physics, Nuovo Cimento and The International Journal of Modern Physics (A&E), as well as two recently published books, The Chaotic Universe (Nova Science, New York) and The Universe of Fluctuations (Springer). The work had predicted correctl...