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Ultimate Horizons: Probing the Limits of the Universe

By Helmut Satz (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2013
ISBN
978-3-642-41656-9, 978-3-642-41657-6
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-41657-6
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5224332 bytes)
Series
The Frontiers Collection
Edition
1
Pages
172\175
Topic
Physics Astronomy
Time added
2014-04-13 05:00:00
AstronomyAstrophysics and Cosmology; Elementary ParticlesQuantum Field Theory; Epistemology; Philosophy of

Description

In the last hundred years, modern physics and cosmology have shown that there exist regions of the universe forever beyond our reach, hidden by truly ultimate horizons. Such regions exist in those remote parts of the universe where, from our point of view, space expands faster than the speed of light. They are found in black holes, where the gravity is strong enough to retain even light within its field of attraction. And in the realm of the very small, quarks must remain forever confined to their world of extreme density and can never be removed from it. The aim of this book is to describe these ultimate horizons, how they were discovered, how they shape our view of the world, and what clues we have about a world beyond them.

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