An exciting, passionate and bewildering flight into the question of the origins of the universe. Leading cosmologist, Alan Guth, tackles those matters that the Big Bang Theory has been unable to resolve, namely: If matter can neither be created or destroyed, how could so much matter arise from nothing at all? "Guth is an intellectual test pilot. His mission is to push the machinery of physics to its logical extreme, in hopes that he can find out ...

Der Autor stellt die Entwicklung des Universums in vier Stufen dar - 1.
die Entstehung der Materie als Vorstufe des Lebens (Geogenese), 2. die
Entstehung des Lebens aus der Materie (Biogenese), 3. die Entstehung des
Denkens (Psychogenese) bzw. des Ich-Bewusstseins (Noogenese) innerhalb
des Lebens und 4. der Zusammenschluss des Denkens zu einer >>höheren Lebensform>Granulation>tangentiale>radiale>Spontaneität>zweiseitige ...

Cosmology is the study of nature on the grandest scale we know: that of the Universe itself. This successful and class-tested textbook covers all the essentials: galaxies, their formation, morphology, dynamics, stellar and gaseous structure, and interactions; radio sources, quasars, and other galactic nuclei and their spectra and absorption-line systems; and the interstellar medium and the Universe on a large scale -- in short, all of ...

Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity be united in a single quantum theory of gravity? Can quantum and cosmos ever be combined? Two world-famous physicists debate the issue in this work, based on a series of lectures and a final debate held at the University of Cambridge. 75 line drawings. ...

Die wichtigsten Ideen und Erkenntnisse aus Physik und Mathematik in knapper und verständlicher Form.Das ausgehende Jahrhundert veränderte die klassische naturwissenschaftliche Sichtweise gewaltig. Die Quantentheorie, die Relativitätstheorie oder die Chaostheorie, um nur einige zu nennen, gaben völlig neuen, fast revolutionären Denkansätzen Raum. Hier werden all diese Theorien und ihre Folgerungen leicht ...

In jüngster Zeit mehren sich die Nachrichten über die mögliche Bedrohung unseres Planeten durch Himmelskörper. Der Halleysche Komet, die Meteoritenkette Shoemaker-Levy, die Kometen Yakutake und Hale-Bopp sind die spektakulärsten irregulären Himmelskörper, die der Erde in den letzten Jahren relativ nahe gekommen sind.
In diesem Buch legt Fred Hoyle, Professor für Astrophysik an der Universität Cambridge, seine Theorie über Kometen und ihre ...

This volume presents a unique and accessible synthesis of our understanding of modern cosmology, written by one of the world's foremost contemporary cosmologists. In recent years, observational cosmology has made remarkable advances, bringing into sharper focus a new set of fundamental questions that Professor Rees addresses in this book. Why is the universe expanding the way it is? What were the 'seeds' that caused galaxies, clusters and ...

COSMO 98 facilitated the interaction among particle physicists, cosmologists, and astronomers, so that advances in understanding the smallest domain of sub-nuclear physics and of the largest reaches of the universe could each affect the other area. This interplay has produced remarkable progress, but it has also exposed interesting conflicts which should lead to further progress. ...

This is the 2nd edition of a highly successful title on this fascinating and complex subject. Concentrating primarily on the theory behind the origin and the evolution of the universe, and where appropriate relating it to observation, the new features of the this addition include: An overall introduction to the book Two new chapters: Gravitational Lensing and Gravitational Waves Each part has a collection of exercises with solutions to numerical ...

Distance determination - finding out how far away different astronomical objects are - is an essential and currently highly topical subject in astronomy. A great deal of progress has been made during the last part of the 20th century. Measuring the Universe provides a unified treatment of the various techniques used for distance determination. It begins by describing methods to measure distances on Earth then gradually climbs the "distance ...