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Subscriber,
Beginning with the famous Olber's paradox, a number of
cosmological paradoxes, such as the missing mass, dark energy, and the
baryon-to-photon ratio, have been and are today the subject of many
scientific controversies. The Big Bang model, anticipated by Lemaitre
in 1927 and reformulated twenty years later by Gamow, Alpher and
Herman, is one of the most spectacular successes in the entire history
of physics. It remains today surrounded by considerable theoretical
speculation without sufficient observational support.
Together with our 30th Anniversary celebration, we
are pleased to introduce the forthcoming Cosmic Paradoxes. For
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![]() COSMIC PARADOXES
by Julio A Gonzalo (Universidad Autonama de Madrid, Spain)
180pp (approx.)
978-981-4355-11-7(pbk): US$34 / £22 US$23.80
/ £15.40
978-981-4355-61-2: US$72 / £47 US$50.40
/ £32.90
This book discusses such paradoxes in depth with physical and
logical content and historical perspective, and has not too technical
content in order to serve a wide audience.
Contents:
- Energy Conservation
- Non-Conservation Means too Much "Freedom"
- The Four Interactions
- Matter, Radiation, Particles
- Olber's Paradox: The Dark Night Sky
- General Relativity and Cosmology
- The Friedmann-Lemaitre Solutions
- The Role of Radiation Pressure
- The Einstein-Lemaitre Correspondence
- The Accelerating Universe Paradox
- The Missing Mass and Dark Energy Paradoxes
- The Photon-to-Baryon Ratio Paradox
- The Universe is Finite, Open and Contingent
- The Very Early Universe: Indeterminacy or
Uncertainty?
- Singular Moments in Cosmic History
- A Brief Outline: World Events and Cosmological
Discoveries
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