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The Cosmic Revolutionary's Handbook (or: How to Beat the Big Bang)

By Luke A. Barnes; Geraint F. Lewis

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
1108486703, 9781108486705
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4573159 bytes)
Pages
x+278\289
Time added
2020-05-11 13:04:36

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Free yourself from cosmological tyranny! Everything started in a Big Bang? Invisible dark matter? Black holes? Why accept such a weird cosmos? For all those who wonder about this bizarre universe, and those who want to overthrow the Big Bang, this handbook gives you 'just the facts': the observations that have shaped these ideas and theories. While the Big Bang holds the attention of scientists, it isn't perfect. The authors pull back the curtains, and show how cosmology really works. With this, you will know your enemy, cosmic revolutionary - arm yourself for the scientific arena where ideas must fight for survival! This uniquely-framed tour of modern cosmology gives a deeper understanding of the inner workings of this fascinating field. The portrait painted is realistic and raw, not idealized and airbrushed - it is science in all its messy detail, which doesn't pretend to have all the answers. The Cosmic Revolutionary’s Handbook (Or: How to Beat the Big Bang) Contents Preface 1 Understanding Science Just What Is Science? Just What Is a Model? What Makes a Good Scientific Model? The Real Process of Science Part 1: Publishing The Real Process of Science Part 2: Peer Review The Real Process of Science Part 3: Presentation Does Science Want a Revolution? How to Read This Book 2 How Dark Is the Night? The World before the Revolution Aristotle’s Physics Aristotle Looks to the Heavens Copernicus, Revolutionary Newton’s Universe Spreading out the Heavens Seeing the Stars How the Big Bang Theory Solves Olbers’s Paradox A Rival Falls: A Static, Eternal, Infinite Universe 3 Run for the Hills! Red Light, Blue Light The Music of Atoms Great Galloping Galaxies! How Far to the Stars? Blinking in the Dark Far Away Fireworks Redder and Further How to Shift Light How the Big Bang Theory Explains Hubble’s Law A Rival Falls: A Static Universe Anomalous Redshifts: A Problem for Hubble? 4 Going Gently into That Good Night The Slowing of the Clock Tick-Tock, Supernova Clock Observing the Dilation of Time The Fading of the Light Cosmological Complexity To the Very Hearts of Galaxies The Problem with Galaxies Manipulations and Corrections A Rival Falls: Putting Tired Light to Bed 5 An Ever-Changing Universe Is the Night Sky Really Dark? A Canadian, Some Stars, and a Cold Photon Bath The Unavoidable Hiss from Space On the Temperature of Light Matter and Light, Together On the Temperature of Space The Hot Big Bang A Rival Falls: Steady-State Cosmology Evolution of the Temperature of the CMB 6 The Wood for the Trees Seeing Radio Waves Star-Like, Star Bright What Is a Quasar? Clue 1: They’re All Redshifted Clue 2: They’re Like No Star We’ve Ever Seen Clue 3: Something in the Quasar Is Orbiting at Colossal Speeds Clue 4: Quasars Flicker The Chief Suspect What Did the Quasar See? Making Hydrogen Sing Mapping the Universe in Silhouette Galaxies and the Forest A Contender Falls: Anomalous Quasar Redshifts 7 We Are (Mostly) Made of Stars A Universe of Atoms Measuring the Elements … in Space! Heavy Hydrogen in the Heavens Alchemist to the Stars! How Do We Know How Stars Work? Can Stars Make the Elements? The Magic Furnace Computing the Big Bang The Great Cosmic Bake-Off A Contender Falls: The Electric Universe 8 Ripples in the Night Sky The Missing Magnetic Monopole Mystery The Inflationary Universe Seeing to the Horizon Enter Inflation Molehills out of Mountains How Curved Is My Universe? Stretching Your Space Is Inflation a Contender? The “Exploding Universe” Party The “We Don’t Need No Inflation” Party If Not Inflation, What? 9 Balls from Left-Field Challenging the Standard: The Linear Universe Dirac Large Number Hypothesis Redshift Quantization Claim 1: Pairs, Groups and Clusters of Galaxies Show Preferred Redshifts, Relative to Each Other Claim 2: Galaxies from Across the Universe Show a Preference for Certain Redshifts, on Large Scales (>100 Mpc) White Hole Cosmology Cosmic Microwave Background Scepticism A Never-Ending Stream of Ideas 10 How to Do Better than the Big Bang The Dark Universe Galaxy Formation and Galactic Satellites Redshift Drift Looking for Lithium Primordial Neutrinos Unmaking Antimatter Primordial Gravitational Waves The Birth of the Universe Where to from Here Acknowledgements Endnotes Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Further Reading Popular Level Introductions to Cosmology Cosmology Textbooks Index

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