The music of the big bang the cosmic microwave background and the new cosmology /
The cosmic microwave background radiation is the afterglow of the big bang: a tenuous signal, more than 13 billion years old, which carries the answers to many of the questions about the nature of our Universe. It was serendipitously discovered in 1964, and thoroughly investigated in the last four d...
| Uniform Title: | Musica del Big Bang. English |
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| Main Author: | Balbi, Amedeo. |
| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Italian |
| Published: |
Berlin :
Springer,
2008.
Berlin : 2008. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xv, 158 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series: |
Astronomers' universe.
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- The framework (an introduction to the Big Bang model)
- First light (an introduction to the cosmic background radiation
- CMB)
- Cosmic seeds (structure formation in the Universe and the CMB)
- Music of the spheres (acoustic oscillations in the primordial Universe)
- Finding harmony (the discovery of acoustic oscillations in the CMB power spectrum)
- The undiscovered country (some future prospects)
- Epilogue.