Cosmology
This is a uniquely comprehensive and detailed treatment of the theoretical and observational foundations of modern cosmology, by a Nobel Laureate in Physics. It gives up-to-date and self contained accounts of the theories and observations that have made the past few decades a golden age of cosmology...
| Main Author: | Weinberg, Steven, 1933-2021. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Physical Description: |
xvii, 593 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Expansion of the universe
- Cosmic microwave radiation background
- Early universe
- Inflation
- General theory of small fluctuations
- Evolution of cosmological fluctuations
- Anisotropies in the microwave sky
- Growth of structure
- Gravitational lenses
- Inflation as the origin of cosmological fluctuations.