Cosmology’s Century : : An Inside History of Our Modern Understanding of the Universe / / P. J. E. Peebles.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• VerfasserIn: Peebles, P. J. E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (440 p.) :; 16 color + 33 b/w illus. 3 tables.

From Nobel Prize–winning physicist P. J. E. Peebles, the story of cosmology from Einstein to todayModern cosmology began a century ago with Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity and his notion of a homogenous, philosophically satisfying cosmos. Cosmology's Century is the story of...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• CHAPTER 1. Introduction
• CHAPTER 2. The Homogeneous Universe
• CHAPTER 3. Cosmological Models
• CHAPTER 4. Fossils:Microwave Radiation and Light Elements
• CHAPTER 5. How Cosmic Structure Grew
• CHAPTER 6. Subluminal Mass
• CHAPTER 7. Nonbaryonic Dark Matter
• CHAPTER 8. The Age of Abundance of Cosmological Models
• CHAPTER 9. The 1998–2003 Revolution
• CHAPTER 10. The Ways of Research
• References
• Index
• A NOTE ON THE TYPE