Critical Dialogues In Cosmology

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

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A special forum on critical issues in cosmology in celebraton of Princeton University's 250th birthday.The proceedings of this conference, held as part of Princeton University's 250th birthday celebrations, features lectures and discussions by many of the world's leading scientists on the status and future of modern cosmology.The volume offers the non-specialist a fascinating insight into the current status of cosmology and the issues of contention at the research frontiers of the science. It constitutes the proceedings of a special conference, held as part of Princeton University's 250 birthday celebrations, featuring lectures and discussions by many of the world's leading scientists on the status and future of modern cosmology. The volume is based on the format of a series of debates in which a range of conventional wisdom is reviewed, defended and critcised by renowned specialists in each field.The technical level of the volume is accessible to a very broad audience of non-specialists. This innovative exchange of ideas at the cutting edge of cosmology therefore offers an unusual opportunity for the average reader to savour the excitement of probing into the ultimate secrets of the universe.

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Utgivningsdatum1997-08-18
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor624
FörlagWorld Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
ISBN9789810228606

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The state of modern cosmology, M. Rees; the universe is homogeneous and isotropic on large scales, M. Davis and L. Pietronero; big bang nucleosynthesis explains the observed abundances of helium and other light elements, C. Hogan and G. Steigman; age/expansion consistency, D. Schramm; the value of Hubble's constant, W. Freedman and G. Tammann; the age of the oldest stars exceeds 13 Gyr, M. Bolte and B. Paczynski; dynamical measurements favour a value of omega close to unity, A. Dekel and D. Burstein; review of the cosmological constant problem - theory, S. Weinberg, observations, M. Fukugita; review of the dark matter problem, baryonic dark matter and dark matter candidates - astronomical view, D. Spergel, experimental view, B. Sadoulet; inflation provides a compelling explanation for why the universe is so large, so flat and so old, and a predictive theory of density perturbations, A. Guth and W. Unruh; overview of FRW cosmology, M. Longair; what are the clues from present day theory about what a final cosmology might be?, and what kind of guidance might cosmological observations give as to the nature of a fundamental theory?, R. Blandford et al; review of electroweak baryogenesis, N. Turok; the galactic magnetic fields could have been generated by standard astrophysical processes and the dynamo mechanism, E. Parker and R. Kulsrud; review of observations - spectrum, anisotropy, recent experiments, L. Page; what current CBR anisotropy measurements tell us, J.R. Bond and J. Silk; review of large scale galaxy surveys, G. Efstathiou; the large scale velocity flows - two views, M. Strauss and R. Giovanelli; observations of galaxies at high redshifts provide strong constraints on galaxy formation and evolution, and on the cosmological parameters, B. Rocca et al; absorption line studies show us that galaxy formation occurred at high redshifts, and that the intergalactic medium was ionized by a redshift of ..., A. Wolfe and W. Sargent; review of gravitational lensing, E. Turner; the best theory of cosmic structure formation is ..., J.R. Goot (Open CDM), N. Kaiser (omega=1 Std CDM), J. Primack (MDM), A. Stebbins (Defects+X) and M. Turner (CDM+L); an astronomer's, an astrophysicist's and a particle physicist's view, V. Rubin et al.