The Inflationary Universe

Author : Alan Guth
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780201328400
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inflationary Universe written by Alan Guth and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1998-03-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the compelling, first-hand account of Alan Guth's paradigm-breaking discovery of the origins of the universe—and of his dramatic rise from young researcher to physics superstar. Guth's startling theory—widely regarded as one of the most important contributions to science during the twentieth century—states that the big bang was set into motion by a period of hyper-rapid “inflation,” lasting only a billion-trillion-billionth of a second. The Inflationary Universe is the passionate story of one leading scientist's effort to look behind the cosmic veil and explain how the universe began.

Author : Martin Lemoine
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540743537
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inflationary Cosmology written by Martin Lemoine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-12 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some 25 years after the birth of inflationary cosmology, this volume sets out to provide both an authoritative and pedagogical introduction and review of the current state of the field. Readers learn about the arguments supporting the many different scenarios of cosmic inflation. Articles are written by eminent scientists, many of whom have made pioneering contributions to the field of inflationary cosmology.

Author : Alan H. Guth
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 009995950X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inflationary Universe written by Alan H. Guth and published by Random House. This book was released on 1998 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic Big Bang theory describes what happened after the bang. Guth looks at the questions the theory can't answer, such as - if matter can neither be created or destroyed, how could so much matter arise from nothing at all?

Author : Maxim Y. Khlopov
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402026501
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmological Pattern of Microphysics in the Inflationary Universe written by Maxim Y. Khlopov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern cosmology is a quickly developing ?eld of research. New technical devices and tools supply the community with new experimental data measured with high accuracy. The self-consistent explanation of these data needs t- oretical models that are based on hypothetical predictions of particle theory. In their turn, such predictions imply cosmology for their probe. Speci?c st- ies of the cosmological consequences of particle theory, linking them to their observable signatures, are actual. This boiling kettle of theoretical research and experimental efforts produces ideas that will be preserved for following generations. The aim of this book is to acquaint the reader with some of these ideas, - fering nontrivial ways to probe the physical basis of modern cosmology. An extensive review of the newest ideas in modern cosmology, e. g. , related with the development of the M-brane theory, lies beyond the scope of our book, which is aimed at providing a ?rmly established system of probes for these ideas, linking their predictions to their possible experimental test. We use the framework of in?ationary paradigm to reveal the phenomena that can shed light on the physical origin of the observed Universe, of its matter content and large-scale structure. The crucial role of quantum ?uctuations in creation of our Universe and in possible features, re?ecting cosmological impact of microphysics, is discussed. These features are shown to be accessible to - perimental test in the near future.

Author : Konstantinos Dimopoulos
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351174851
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Cosmic Inflation and Dark Energy written by Konstantinos Dimopoulos and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cosmic inflation and dark energy hold the key to the origin and the eventual fate of the Universe. Despite the increasing prominence of these subjects in research and teaching over the past decade or more, no introductory textbook dedicated to these topics has been previously published. Dr. Konstantinos Dimopoulos is a highly regarded expert in the field, and an experienced communicator of the subject to students. In this book, he provides advanced undergraduate and early graduate students with an accessible introduction and equips them with the tools they need to understand the cosmology of cosmic inflation and dark energy. Features: Provides a concise, pedagogical "crash course" in big bang cosmology, focusing on the dynamics and the history of the Universe, with an emphasis on the role of dark energy Chapters contain questions and problems for readers to test their understanding The first book to make cosmic inflation and dark energy accessible to students

Author : Will Kinney
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262547228
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Infinity of Worlds written by Will Kinney and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happened before the primordial fire of the Big Bang: a theory about the ultimate origin of the universe. In the beginning was the Big Bang: an unimaginably hot fire almost fourteen billion years ago in which the first elements were forged. The physical theory of the hot nascent universe—the Big Bang—was one of the most consequential developments in twentieth-century science. And yet it leaves many questions unanswered: Why is the universe so big? Why is it so old? What is the origin of structure in the cosmos? In An Infinity of Worlds, physicist Will Kinney explains a more recent theory that may hold the answers to these questions and even explain the ultimate origins of the universe: cosmic inflation, before the primordial fire of the Big Bang. Kinney argues that cosmic inflation is a transformational idea in cosmology, changing our picture of the basic structure of the cosmos and raising unavoidable questions about what we mean by a scientific theory. He explains that inflation is a remarkable unification of inner space and outer space, in which the physics of the very large (the cosmos) meets the physics of the very small (elementary particles and fields), closing in a full circle at the first moment of time. With quantum uncertainty its fundamental feature, this new picture of cosmic origins introduces the possibility that the origin of the universe was of a quantum nature. Kinney considers the consequences of eternal cosmic inflation. Can we come to terms with the possibility that our entire observable universe is one of infinitely many, forever hidden from our view?

Author : Larry Abbott
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 981451893X
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inflationary Cosmology written by Larry Abbott and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1986-09-01 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inflation has revolutionized cosmology primarily because it has eliminated the dependence of cosmological modelling on initial conditions. Thus inflationary cosmology is able to account for the present universe starting from a wide range of initial conditions. This volume reviews the presents state of subject. Each chapter consists of a brief introduction followed by reprints of important papers. Experts in the field are also provided with a unifying view point.

Author : A.D. Linde
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inflation and Quantum Cosmology written by A.D. Linde and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1990-01-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inflation and Quantum Cosmology discusses the inflationary universe scenario, including the problems of the standard big bang theory and the interplay between elementary-particle theory and cosmology. Inflationary universe models generate many different final perturbation spectra. For example, a model of an inflationary universe, through a casual mechanism, can predict energy density fluctuations leading to the formation of galaxies. The inflationary universe scenario makes possible simultaneous solutions to ten problems related to cosmology and elementary particle physics. One problem concerns the origin of density perturbations that show a picture of the large-scale structure of the universe. Some unexplored possibilities are related to isothermal perturbations generated during inflation or to adiabatic perturbations with a non-flat spectrum. An inflationary universe cosmology also includes stochastic inflation that describes the universe on very large scales-from fragmented mini-universes to another inflationary cosmos. The book also discusses the problem relating to the initial conditions from which an inflationary universe starts. This book is suitable for astronomers, astrophysicists, and professors of cosmology and cosmogenesis.

Author : Andrew R. Liddle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521575980
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmological Inflation and Large-Scale Structure written by Andrew R. Liddle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-13 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough and up-to-date graduate textbook on the most promising theory of the universe - inflationary cosmology.

Author : Daniel Baumann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316240967
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inflation and String Theory written by Daniel Baumann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past two decades have seen transformative advances in cosmology and string theory. Observations of the cosmic microwave background have revealed strong evidence for inflationary expansion in the very early universe, while new insights about compactifications of string theory have led to a deeper understanding of inflation in a framework that unifies quantum mechanics and general relativity. Written by two of the leading researchers in the field, this complete and accessible volume provides a modern treatment of inflationary cosmology and its connections to string theory and elementary particle theory. After an up-to-date experimental summary, the authors present the foundations of effective field theory, string theory, and string compactifications, setting the stage for a detailed examination of models of inflation in string theory. Three appendices contain background material in geometry and cosmological perturbation theory, making this a self-contained resource for graduate students and researchers in string theory, cosmology, and related fields.