The Redshift Controversy
Author : George B. Field
Publisher : Addison Wesley Longman
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : George B. Field
Publisher : Addison Wesley Longman
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Halton C. Arp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 15,76 MB
Release : 1988-09-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521363143
Contests the 'establishment' view of quasars as the most distant objects in the universe.
Author : George B. Field
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 13,22 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Red shift
ISBN :
Author : Halton C. Arp
Publisher : Apeiron
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Helge Kragh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 20,57 MB
Release : 2019-03-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 0192549979
Scientific and popular literature on modern cosmology is very extensive; however, scholarly works on the historical development of cosmology are few and scattered. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of the history of cosmology from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. It provides historical background to what we know about the universe today, including not only the successes but also the many false starts. Big Bang theory features prominently, but so does the defunct steady state theory. The book starts with a chapter on the pre-Einstein period (1860-1910) and ends with chapters on modern developments such as inflation, dark energy and multiverse hypotheses. The chapters are organized chronologically, with some focusing on theory and others more on observations and technological advances. A few of the chapters discuss more general ideas, relating to larger contexts such as politics, economy, philosophy and world views.
Author : Helge Kragh
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 30,54 MB
Release : 1999-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691005461
Between 1920 and 1970, cosmology became a branch of physics. This text examines how the big bang theory drew inspiration from, and eventually triumphed over, rival views, mainly the steady-state theory and its concept of a stationary universe.
Author : Joseph Silk
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 159947364X
Horizons of Cosmology: Exploring Worlds Seen and Unseen is the fourth title published in the Templeton Science and Religion Series, in which scientists from a wide range of fields distill their experience and knowledge into brief tours of their respective specialties. In this volume, highly esteemed astrophysicist Joseph Silk explores the vast mysteries and speculations of the field of cosmology in a way that balances an accessible style for the general reader and enough technical detail for advanced students and professionals. Indeed, while the physical laws and origins of the universe can be endlessly complex, even Einstein once mused that they could be explained simply enough to be grasped by nonspecialists. To that end Silk begins by introducing the basic story of the major discoveries in cosmology over the past century—wherein we learned that we live in an expanding universe populated with galaxies and stars. The middle chapters examine a number of contemporary puzzles such as dark matter and dark energy. The last third of the book looks at the human side of cosmology and moves to the more philosophical frontiers of the field, such as concepts of multiverses and time travel—areas of exploration where some crossover into speculative territory becomes unavoidable. In the past century alone, our understanding of the universe has expanded exponentially, and it will be fascinating to see what discoveries the next hundred years hold. Few books will provide such a thorough understanding of where we have been and what might lie ahead as Horizons of Cosmology.
Author : Viatcheslav Mukhanov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 2005-11-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 1139447114
Inflationary cosmology has been developed over the last twenty years to remedy serious shortcomings in the standard hot big bang model of the universe. This textbook, first published in 2005, explains the basis of modern cosmology and shows where the theoretical results come from. The book is divided into two parts; the first deals with the homogeneous and isotropic model of the Universe, the second part discusses how inhomogeneities can explain its structure. Established material such as the inflation and quantum cosmological perturbation are presented in great detail, however the reader is brought to the frontiers of current cosmological research by the discussion of more speculative ideas. An ideal textbook for both advanced students of physics and astrophysics, all of the necessary background material is included in every chapter and no prior knowledge of general relativity and quantum field theory is assumed.
Author : Barbara Ryden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Science
ISBN : 1107154839
A substantial update of this award-winning and highly regarded cosmology textbook, for advanced undergraduates in physics and astronomy.
Author : Dominique Raynaud
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 37,93 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 1351491806
In Scientific Controversies, Dominque Raynaud shows how organized debates in the sciences help us establish or verify our knowledge of the world. If debates focus on form, scientific controversies are akin to public debates that can be understood within the framework of theories of conflict. If they focus on content, then such controversies have to do with a specific activity and address the nature of science itself. Understanding the major focus of a scientific controversy is a first step toward understanding these debates and assessing their merits.Controversies of unique socio-historic context, disciplines, and characteristics are examined: Pasteur's germ theory and Pouchet's theory of spontaneous generation; vitalism advocated at Montpellier versus experimental medicine in Paris; the science of optics about the propagation of visual rays; the origins of relativism (the Duhem-Quine problem). Touching on the work of Boudon, Popper, and others, Raynaud puts forward an incrementalist theory about the advancement of science through scientific controversies.The debates Raynaud has selected share in common their pivotal importance to the history of the sciences. By understanding the role of controversy, we better understand the functioning of science and the stakes of the contemporary scientific debates.