Silk, Joseph, 1942-
Cosmic enigmas / Joseph Silk. - New York : AIP Press, 1994. - xi, 213 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Masters of modern physics ; v. 10 . - Masters of modern physics ; v. 10. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cosmologists and Their Myths -- Anthropic Musings -- The Big-Bang Theory -- The Very Early Universe / Joseph I. Silk and John D. Barrow -- Formation of the Galaxies -- Slow-motion Galactic Birth -- A Deep Look at Forming Galaxies / Joseph I. Silk and August Evrard -- In Search of Young Galaxies -- The First Stars / Joseph I. Silk, Beatriz Barbuy and Roger Cayrel -- Did the Tail Wag the Cosmic Dog? -- Primordial Helium Abundance and Big-Bang Cosmology -- Historic Fluctuations -- The Origin of Galaxies / Joseph I. Silk and Martin J. Rees -- Moving As One -- Deciphering the Cosmic Code -- Our Local Pancake -- Texture and Cosmic Structure / Joseph I. Silk and Roman Juszkiewicz -- A Quasar Superstructure / Joseph I. Silk and David Weinberg -- Texture and the Microwave Background / Joseph I. Silk and James G. Bartlett -- Is Omega Equal to Unity? -- A Bubbly Universe -- The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe / Joseph I. Silk, Alexander S. Szalay and Yakov B. Zel'dovich -- The Dark Cloud. The Dark Cloud Revisited / Joseph I. Silk and Cedric Lacey -- The Invisible Universe / Joseph I. Silk and John D. Barrow -- From Quark to Cosmos / Joseph I. Silk and John D. Barrow -- The Missing Mass - Now It's a Gravitino! -- Great Voids in the Universe -- The Intergalactic Medium -- Dark Matter Comes in from the Cold -- Cosmology Back to the Beginning -- Probing the Primeval Fireball -- An Infrared View of the Universe -- Dark Matter Detected?
"Archeology is the science that probes the past few thousand years. Geology takes us back two or even three billion years. Beyond that is the realm of cosmology: the study of the beginnings of the Universe around us.". So begins a journey deep into the origins of time, the birth of galaxies, and all the way to the farthest realm, beyond the end of it all. The tour starts at the beginning, the very early Universe - with Silk's masterful account of the Big Bang Theory, culminating in the 1965 discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation. "This whisper of creation is the greatly faded relic of the primordial fireball..."
1563960613 (acidfree paper)
93040693
Cosmology.
Astrophysics.
QB981 / .S553 1994
523.1
Cosmic enigmas / Joseph Silk. - New York : AIP Press, 1994. - xi, 213 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Masters of modern physics ; v. 10 . - Masters of modern physics ; v. 10. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cosmologists and Their Myths -- Anthropic Musings -- The Big-Bang Theory -- The Very Early Universe / Joseph I. Silk and John D. Barrow -- Formation of the Galaxies -- Slow-motion Galactic Birth -- A Deep Look at Forming Galaxies / Joseph I. Silk and August Evrard -- In Search of Young Galaxies -- The First Stars / Joseph I. Silk, Beatriz Barbuy and Roger Cayrel -- Did the Tail Wag the Cosmic Dog? -- Primordial Helium Abundance and Big-Bang Cosmology -- Historic Fluctuations -- The Origin of Galaxies / Joseph I. Silk and Martin J. Rees -- Moving As One -- Deciphering the Cosmic Code -- Our Local Pancake -- Texture and Cosmic Structure / Joseph I. Silk and Roman Juszkiewicz -- A Quasar Superstructure / Joseph I. Silk and David Weinberg -- Texture and the Microwave Background / Joseph I. Silk and James G. Bartlett -- Is Omega Equal to Unity? -- A Bubbly Universe -- The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe / Joseph I. Silk, Alexander S. Szalay and Yakov B. Zel'dovich -- The Dark Cloud. The Dark Cloud Revisited / Joseph I. Silk and Cedric Lacey -- The Invisible Universe / Joseph I. Silk and John D. Barrow -- From Quark to Cosmos / Joseph I. Silk and John D. Barrow -- The Missing Mass - Now It's a Gravitino! -- Great Voids in the Universe -- The Intergalactic Medium -- Dark Matter Comes in from the Cold -- Cosmology Back to the Beginning -- Probing the Primeval Fireball -- An Infrared View of the Universe -- Dark Matter Detected?
"Archeology is the science that probes the past few thousand years. Geology takes us back two or even three billion years. Beyond that is the realm of cosmology: the study of the beginnings of the Universe around us.". So begins a journey deep into the origins of time, the birth of galaxies, and all the way to the farthest realm, beyond the end of it all. The tour starts at the beginning, the very early Universe - with Silk's masterful account of the Big Bang Theory, culminating in the 1965 discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation. "This whisper of creation is the greatly faded relic of the primordial fireball..."
1563960613 (acidfree paper)
93040693
Cosmology.
Astrophysics.
QB981 / .S553 1994
523.1