Inflationary Cosmology Revisited: An Overview Of Contemporary Scientific Cosmology After The Inflationary Proposal

Julio A Gonzalo (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

120 Seiten

2005
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd (Verlag)
978-981-256-151-0 (ISBN)

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Scientific Cosmology is clearly one of the most active physics research fields at present, and likely to remain so in the near future. Shortly after the pioneering cosmological work of Einstein, Georges Lemaitre proposed a model which some years later to be known as the big-bang model. In the early fifties an alternative proposal, the so called steady-state (expansion at constant density) model, became the fashionable model in prominent academic circles. The discovery of the cosmic background microwave radiation (Penzias & Wilson, 1965) made the steady-state model almost untenable. A quarter of a century later the inflationary model was proposed, becoming extraordinarily popular almost immediately. For some it seemed to combine attractive features of both the steady-state and the big-bang models, by postulating a very early violent (constant density) expansion during a very tiny fraction of a second.The book makes use of the best and most recent observational data, from the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE, 1992) to the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP, 2003), to discuss the merits and demerits of inflationary cosmology for a general readership acquainted with the basic facts of scientific cosmology. A complete Glossary and a detailed Index help the reader to follow controversial topics, such as dark matter, dark energy, cosmic flatness and accelerated expansion.

Steady State vs Big Bang Cosmologies; The Microwave Cosmic Background Radiation; The Birth of Inflationary Cosmology; The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE); Dark Matter, Cosmic Flatness and Accelerated Expansion; The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP); On the Monopole, Flatness and Horizon Problems; An Alternative to Inflation?; Appendix: How Close are the Cosmic Times at Decoupling and Atom Formation?

Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10	981-256-151-X / 981256151X
ISBN-13	978-981-256-151-0 / 9789812561510
Zustand	Neuware