The Accelerating Universe: Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos Mario Livio
Publisher: New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001.
ISBN: 047143714X
DDC: 523.1
LCC: QB981
Edition: (electronic bk.)15.95 (NL)
Summary:
In one of the most surprising and important findings in cosmology in
the century, astronomers recently discovered that the universe may be
expanding at an ever-increasing rate. As astrophysicist Mario Livio
explains in this book, most cosmologists have long believed that the
universe will expand at a gradually decreasing rate until the
expansion effectively stops. The discovery that the expansion appears
in fact to be speeding up - and therefore that the universe will keep
expanding faster and faster for infinity - throws the view of a
perfectly balanced 'beautiful universe' into question.
Notes:
The Accelerating Universe; Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 Prologue; 2
Beauty and the Beast; 3 Expansion; 4 The Case of the Missing Matter;
5 Flat Is Beautiful; 6 When Inflation Is Good; 7 Creation; 8 The
Meaning of Life; 9 A Universe Custom Made for Us?; 10 A Cosmological
Aesthetic Principle?; Index.
Electronic reproduction.Available via World Wide Web.
Language: eng
Physical Description: 289 p.
Edition Info: (electronic bk.)15.95 (NL)
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