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The Light/dark Universe

Light from Galaxies, Dark Matter and Dark Energy

By: James Martin Overduin,Paul S. Wesson

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The Light/dark Universe

Light from Galaxies, Dark Matter and Dark Energy

By: James Martin Overduin,Paul S. Wesson

To the eyes of the average person and the trained scientist, the night sky is dark, even though the universe is populated by myriads of bright galaxies. Why this happens is a question commonly called Olbers' Paradox, and dates from at least 1823. How dark is the night sky is a question which preoccupies astrophysicists at the present. The answer to both questions tells us about the origin of the universe and the nature of its contents ? luminous galaxies like the Milky Way, plus the dark matter between them and the mysterious dark energy which appears to be pushing everything apart. In this book, the fascinating history of Olbers' Paradox is reviewed, and the intricate physics of the light/dark universe is examined in detail. The fact that the night sky is dark (a basic astronomical observation that anybody can make) turns out to be connected with the finite age of the universe, thereby confirming some event like the Big Bang. But the space between the galaxies is not perfectly black, and data on its murkiness at various wavelengths can be used to constrain and identify its unseen constituents.

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9812834419

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Principles Of Space-time-matter: Cosmology, Particles And Waves In Five Dimensions

By: Paul S Wesson,James M Overduin

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Principles Of Space-time-matter: Cosmology, Particles And Waves In Five Dimensions

By: Paul S Wesson,James M Overduin

For those interested, the book is a good and well-written overview of the work of Wesson and his collaborators. For those with a general interest in extensions of standard physics, accessibility is strongly dependent on the reader’s technical background, though the good structure of the book and copious references (including many to work by more-mainstream physicists on related topics) make that possible for those willing to invest some time.'The Observatory MagazineThis book is a summing up of the prospects for unification between relativity and particle physics based on the extension of Einstein's theory of General Relativity to five dimensions. This subject was first established by Paul Wesson in his previous best-seller, Space-Time-Matter, and discussed from a different perspective in Five-Dimensional Physics, both published by World Scientific in 1999 and 2006 respectively. This third book brings the field up to date and details many new developments and connections to particle theory and wave mechanics in particular. It was in largely finished form at the time of Paul Wesson's untimely death in 2015, and has been completed and expanded by his former student and longtime collaborator, James Overduin.

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9813235799

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Light/dark Universe, The: Light From Galaxies, Dark Matter And Dark Energy

By: Paul S Wesson,James M Overduin

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Light/dark Universe, The: Light From Galaxies, Dark Matter And Dark Energy

By: Paul S Wesson,James M Overduin

To the eyes of the average person and the trained scientist, the night sky is dark, even though the universe is populated by myriads of bright galaxies. Why this happens is a question commonly called Olbers' Paradox, and dates from at least 1823. How dark is the night sky is a question which preoccupies astrophysicists at the present. The answer to both questions tells us about the origin of the universe and the nature of its contents — luminous galaxies like the Milky Way, plus the dark matter between them and the mysterious dark energy which appears to be pushing everything apart. In this book, the fascinating history of Olbers' Paradox is reviewed, and the intricate physics of the light/dark universe is examined in detail. The fact that the night sky is dark (a basic astronomical observation that anybody can make) turns out to be connected with the finite age of the universe, thereby confirming some event like the Big Bang. But the space between the galaxies is not perfectly black, and data on its murkiness at various wavelengths can be used to constrain and identify its unseen constituents.

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9814470007

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Hollywood and the Baby Boom

A Social History

By: James Russell,Jim Whalley

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Hollywood and the Baby Boom

A Social History

By: James Russell,Jim Whalley

Between 1946 and 1964 seventy-five million babies were born, dwarfing the generations that preceded and succeeded them. At each stage of its life-cycle, the baby boom's great size has dictated the terms of national policy and public debate. While aspects of this history are well-documented, the relationship between the baby boom and Hollywood has never been explored. And yet, for almost 40 years, baby boomers made up the majority of Hollywood's audience, and since the 1970s, boomers have dominated movie production. Hollywood and the Baby Boom weaves together interviews with leading filmmakers, archival research and the memories of hundreds of ordinary filmgoers to tell the full story of Hollywood's relationship with the boomers for the first time. The authors demonstrate the profound influence of the boomers on the ways that movies were made, seen and understood since the 1950s. The result is a compelling new account that draws upon an unprecedented range of sources, and offers new insights into the history of American movies.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501331523

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The Weight of the Vacuum

A Scientific History of Dark Energy

By: Helge S. Kragh,James M. Overduin

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The Weight of the Vacuum

A Scientific History of Dark Energy

By: Helge S. Kragh,James M. Overduin

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of cosmic acceleration due to dark energy, a discovery that is all the more perplexing as nobody knows what dark energy actually is. We put the modern concept of cosmological vacuum energy into historical context and show how it grew out of disparate roots in quantum mechanics (zero-point energy) and relativity theory (the cosmological constant, Einstein's “greatest blunder”). These two influences have remained strangely aloof and still co-exist in an uneasy alliance that is at the heart of the greatest crisis in theoretical physics, the cosmological-constant problem.

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Springer

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3642550908

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The Light/dark Universe

The Light/dark Universe

Principles Of Space-time-matter: Cosmology, Particles And Waves In Five Dimensions

Principles Of Space-time-matter: Cosmology, Particles And Waves In Five Dimensions

Light/dark Universe, The: Light From Galaxies, Dark Matter And Dark Energy

Light/dark Universe, The: Light From Galaxies, Dark Matter And Dark Energy

Hollywood and the Baby Boom

Hollywood and the Baby Boom

The Weight of the Vacuum

The Weight of the Vacuum

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