Cosmology's century: an inside history of our modern understanding of the Universe/ P.J.E. Peebles.

Peebles  James Edwin),

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dc.contributor.author	Peebles James Edwin),
dc.date.accessioned	2024-01-26T21:50:51Z
dc.date.available	2024-01-26T21:50:51Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.identifier.citation	Peebles. Cosmology's century: an inside history of our modern understanding of the Universe - 1 online resource - URL: https://libweb.kpfu.ru/ebsco/pdf/2324244.pdf
dc.identifier.isbn	9780691201665
dc.identifier.isbn	0691201668
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.kpfu.ru/xmlui/handle/net/179297
dc.description.tableofcontents	Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The Science and Philosophy of Cosmology -- 1.2 An Overview -- CHAPTER 2. The Homogeneous Universe -- 2.1 Einstein's Cosmological Principle -- 2.2 Early Evidence of Inhomogeneity -- 2.3 Early Evidence of Homogeneity: Isotropy -- 2.4 Early Evidence of Homogeneity: Counts and Redshifts -- 2.5 The Universe as a Stationary Random Process -- 2.6 A Fractal Universe -- 2.7 Concluding Remarks -- CHAPTER 3. Cosmological Models -- 3.1 Discovery of the Relativistic Expanding Universe
dc.description.tableofcontents	3.2 The Relativistic Big Bang Cosmology -- 3.3 The Steady-State Cosmology -- 3.4 Empirical Assessments of the Steady-State Cosmology -- 3.5 Nonempirical Assessments of the Big Bang Model -- 3.5.1 Early Thinking -- 3.5.2 Cosmological Inflation -- 3.5.3 Biasing -- 3.6 Empirical Assessments of the Big Bang Model -- 3.6.1 Time Scales -- 3.6.2 Cosmological Tests in the 1970s -- 3.6.3 Mass Density Measurements: Introduction -- 3.6.4 Mass Density Measurements: Hubble to the Revolution -- 3.6.5 Mass Density Measurements: Assessments -- 3.7 Concluding Remarks
dc.description.tableofcontents	CHAPTER 4. Fossils: Microwave Radiation and Light Elements -- 4.1 Thermal Radiation in an Expanding Universe -- 4.2 Gamow's Scenario -- 4.2.1 Gamow's 1948 Papers -- 4.2.2 Predicting the Present CMB Temperature -- 4.2.3 The Alpher, Bethe, and Gamow Paper -- 4.3 Helium and Deuterium from the Hot Big Bang -- 4.3.1 Recognition of Fossil Helium -- 4.3.2 Helium in a Cold Universe -- 4.3.3 Developments in 1964 and 1965 -- 4.4 Sources of Microwave Radiation -- 4.4.1 Interstellar Cyanogen -- 4.4.2 Detection at Bell Laboratories -- 4.4.3 Zel'dovich's Group -- 4.4.4 Dicke's Group
dc.description.tableofcontents	4.4.5 Recognition of the CMB -- 4.5 Measuring the CMB Intensity Spectrum -- 4.5.1 The Situation in the 1970s -- 4.5.2 Alternative Interpretations -- 4.5.3 The Submillimeter Anomalies -- 4.5.4 Establishing the CMB Thermal Spectrum -- 4.6 Nucleosynthesis and the Baryon Mass Density -- 4.7 Why Was the Hot Big Bang Cosmology Reinvented? -- CHAPTER 5. How Cosmic Structure Grew -- 5.1 The Gravitational Instability Picture -- 5.1.1 Lemaître's Solution -- 5.1.2 Lifshitz's Perturbation Analyses -- 5.1.3 Nongravitational Interaction of Baryons and the CMB -- 5.1.4 The Jeans Mass -- 5.2 Scenarios
dc.description.tableofcontents	5.2.1 Chaos and Order -- 5.2.2 Primeval Turbulence -- 5.2.3 Gravitational Origin of Galaxy Rotation -- 5.2.4 Explosions -- 5.2.5 Spontaneously Broken Homogeneity -- 5.2.6 Initial Conditions -- 5.2.7 Bottom-Up or Top-Down Structure Formation -- 5.3 Concluding Remarks -- CHAPTER 6. Subluminal Mass -- 6.1 Clusters of Galaxies -- 6.2 Groups of Galaxies -- 6.3 Galaxy Rotation Curves -- 6.3.1 The Andromeda Nebula -- 6.3.2 NGC 311525 -- 6.3.3 NGC 300 -- 6.3.4 NGC 2403 -- 6.3.5 The Burbidges's Program -- 6.3.6 Challenges -- 6.4 Stabilizing Spiral Galaxies -- 6.5 Recognizing Subluminal Matter
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en
dc.subject.other	Cosmology -- History.
dc.subject.other	Electronic books.
dc.subject.other	Electronic books.
dc.title	Cosmology's century: an inside history of our modern understanding of the Universe/ P.J.E. Peebles.
dc.type	Book
dc.description.pages	1 online resource
dc.collection	Электронно-библиотечные системы
dc.source.id	EN05CEBSCO05C4317