Enjoy Our Universe
You Have No Other Choice
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 July 2018
- ISBN 9780198817802
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 224x148x18 mm
- Weight 424 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 34 color half-tone and 52 colour line figures; 6 grayscale half-tone and 28 grayscale line figures 0
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Short description:
A richly illustrated book on fundamental physics, cosmology, black holes, Higgs bosons, and time travel for a wide audience. This guide for an enjoyable visit to the Universe is humorous but not a joke. It establishes clear distinctions between things we know for sure and things that we know we do not know. In this sense, it is scientifically honest.
MoreLong description:
Enjoy Our Universe is a guide for an enjoyable visit to the Universe. The "Universe" refers to all "observable things," ranging in size from the entire cosmos to elementary particles. This small tome on fundamental physics, cosmology, Higgs bosons, time travel and all that, is unlike any other analogous book. Its scientific statements are correct or, at least, they coincide with the opinions held by the vast majority of experts. It establishes clear distinctions between things we know for sure -- in the sense of having strong observational support for them -- and things that we know that we do not know, or we do not understand. In this sense, it is scientifically honest.
In descriptions of our Universe and of the way it functions, beauty is a recurring word. In an attempt to portray its beauty from the eyes of the beholder, the book is profusely illustrated. Its offbeat, tongue-in-cheek illustrations greatly enhance its readability, particularly in those chapters whose understanding, admittedly, requires a little extra effort. This book's idiosyncracies remind us of our own smallness and eccentricities even as we read about the logic, function and magnificence of the Universe.
Few books have attempted to tell the full story of the microverse and macroverse and their deep, unexpected connections. Alvaro De Rújula's Enjoy Our Universe does so with success
Table of Contents:
Preface
Physics as an art form
Science as a sport
The bothersome question of units
The scientific method
The three relativities
A first fast visit to the universe
More on the fundamental forces and their 'carriers'
Everything, so far
A parenthesis on quantum mechanics
Understanding relativity and quantum mechanics
Spin, statistics, supernovae, neutron stars and black holes
Parallel realms
A parenthesis on relativistic R2QFTs
The unification of forces
A parenthesis: Is basic science useful?
Back to twins
Some instruments of macro-physics
The discovery of gravitational wave emission
The direct detection of gravitational waves
Some instruments of micro-physics
The LHC and its detectors
The 'Higgs' boson, and its field in the 'vacuum'
Today's Standard Models of particles and gravity
The expansion of the Universe
Finding cosmic fossils
Where is the Cosmic Antimatter?
More on the Cosmic Background Radiation (CBR)
Problems with the 'old' Big Bang Cosmology
Inflation
Limitations and peculiarities of the fundamental interactions
The discreet symmetries of the fundamental interactions
Dark Matter
The origin of structures
The fate of the Universe
Back to the ether?
The crash
In spite of our admitted ignorance
