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  • Formaat: Hardback, 596 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 253x180x31 mm, kaal: 1300 g, 33 Halftones, unspecified
  • Ilmumisaeg: 26-Mar-2009
  • Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0521519829
  • ISBN-13: 9780521519823
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 596 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 253x180x31 mm, kaal: 1300 g, 33 Halftones, unspecified
  • Ilmumisaeg: 26-Mar-2009
  • Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0521519829
  • ISBN-13: 9780521519823
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A collection of essays on research on CMBR in the 1960s by eminent cosmologists who pioneered the work.

Cosmology, the study of the universe as a whole, has become a precise physical science, the foundation of which is our understanding of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) left from the big bang. The story of the discovery and exploration of the CMBR in the 1960s is recalled for the first time in this collection of 44 essays by eminent scientists who pioneered the work. Two introductory chapters put the essays in context, explaining the general ideas behind the expanding universe and fossil remnants from the early stages of the expanding universe. The last chapter describes how the confusion of ideas and measurements in the 1960s grew into the present tight network of tests that demonstrate the accuracy of the big bang theory. This book is valuable to anyone interested in how science is done, and what it has taught us about the large-scale nature of the physical universe.

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'A thrilling page-turner For all of us, the answers to key questions in this area of cosmology - for example, how did we get here? Where are we going? - can now be discovered in this fine book.' John C. Mather, Joint Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics ' includes a wealth of - mostly undocumented - details, some of which would have been lost were it not for this project.' Journal of the History of Astronomy

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A collection of essays on research on CMBR in the 1960s by eminent cosmologists who pioneered the work.
Preface xi
List of contributors
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Introduction
1(1)
A guide to modern cosmology
1(22)
The expanding universe
9(7)
The thermal cosmic microwave background radiation
16(2)
What is the universe made of?
18(5)
Origins of the cosmology of the 1960s
23(46)
Nucleosynthesis in a hot big bang
23(11)
Nucleosynthesis in alternative cosmologies
34(6)
Thermal radiation from a bouncing universe
40(2)
Interstellar molecules and the sea of microwave radiation
42(2)
Direct detection of the microwave radiation
44(7)
Cosmology in the early 1960s
51(18)
The steady state cosmology and the cosmological tests
53(5)
Light elements from the big bang
58(2)
Radiation from the big bang
60(6)
Galaxy formation
66(1)
The situation in the early 1960s
67(2)
Recollections of the 1960s
69(339)
Precursor evidence from communications experiments
70(4)
Early low-noise and related studies at Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ
70(4)
David C. Hogg
Precursor evidence from interstellar molecules
74(12)
Conversations with Dicke
74(1)
Neville J. Woolf
Cyanogen and the CMBR
75(3)
George B. Field
Measuring the cosmic microwave background with interstellar molecules
78(8)
Patrick Thaddeus
Precursor evidence from element abundances
86(6)
The helium content of the universe
86(6)
Donald E. Osterbrock
The path to the hot big bang in the Soviet Union
92(52)
Unforgettable Yakov Zel' dovich
92(7)
Yuri Nikolaevich Smirnov
Cosmology in the Soviet Union in the 1960s
99(8)
Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov
Cosmology in the 1960s
107(1)
Andrei Georgievich Doroshkevich
When we were young...
108(24)
Rashid Sunyaev
Moscow 1968-1969
132(12)
Malcolm S. Longair
Detection at Bell Laboratories
144(32)
Encountering cosmology
144(13)
Arno Penzias
Two astronomical discoveries
157(19)
Robert W. Wilson
The Bell Laboratories-Princeton connection
176(9)
Radio astronomy from first contacts to the CMBR
176(8)
Bernard F. Burke
Spreading the word-or how the news went from Princeton to Holmdel
184(1)
Kenneth C. Turner
Developments at Princeton
185(53)
How I learned physical cosmology
185(15)
P. James
E. Peebles
Measuring the cosmic microwave background radiation
200(13)
David T. Wilkinson
Recollections of the second measurement of the CMBR at Princeton University in 1965
213(8)
Peter G. Roll
Early days of the primeval fireball
221(17)
R. Bruce Partridge
Developments at Cambridge
238(29)
Cambridge cosmology in the 1960s
238(6)
Malcolm S. Longair
The day Fred Hoyle thought he had disproved the big bang theory
244(14)
John Faulkner
An initial impact of the CMBR on nucleosynthesis in big and little bangs
258(3)
Robert V. Wagoner
Cosmology and relativistic astrophysics in Cambridge
261(6)
Martin Rees
Critical reactions to the hot big bang interpretation
267(13)
Some comments on the early history of the CMBR
267(8)
Geoffrey R. Burbidge
Jayant V. Narlikar
My reaction to the discovery of the CMBR
275(4)
David Layzer
Not the correct explanation for the CMBR
279(1)
Michele Kaufman
Measuring the CMBR energy spectrum
280(81)
The CMB-how to observe and not see
280(8)
Jasper V. Wall
Early CMBR observations at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory
288(5)
John R. Shakeshaft
Experiments with the CMBR
293(3)
William ``Jack'' Welch
Investigation of the background radiation in the early years of its discovery
296(6)
Kazimir S. Stankevich
Testing the fireball hypothesis
302(21)
Paul Boynton
Early spectral measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation
323(6)
Robert A. Stokes
An attempt at detecting the cosmic background radiation in the early 1960s
329(10)
Martin Harwit
Being a young graduate student in interesting times - Ignoring the forest for the trees
339(1)
Judith L. Pipher
The big bang, brigter than a thousand suns
340(2)
Kandiah Shivanandan
CMBR research at MIT shortly after the discovery - is there a blackbody peak?
342(19)
Rainer Weiss
Structure in the distributions of matter and radiation
361(24)
Clusters and superclusters of galaxies
361(3)
Yu Jer-Tsang
The synergy of mathematics and physics
364(4)
Rainer K. Sachs
CMBR reminiscences
368(3)
Arthur M. Wolfe
A journey through time
371(8)
Joe Silk
The cosmic background radiation and the initial singularity
379(6)
George F. R. Ellis
Measuring the CMBR anisotropy
385(23)
Early cosmic background studies at Stanford Radio Astronomy Institute
385(8)
Ronald N. Bracewell
Edward K. Conklin
The early days of the CMBR - An undergraduate's perspective
393(4)
Stephen Boughn
Going the ``easy'' direction - and finding a lot of the wrong thing
397(4)
Karl C. Davis
Driven to drink - pursuit of the cosmic microwave background radiation
401(7)
Paul S. Henry
Cosmology and the CMBR since the 1960s
408(70)
The CMBR energy spectrum
412(12)
The aether drift
424(10)
The CMBR intrinsic anistropy spectrum
434(31)
Theoretical concepts
434(13)
Advances in the anisotropy measurements and analysis
447(18)
The cosmological tests
465(10)
Lessons
475(3)
Appendix 478(32)
Glossary 510(21)
References 531(30)
Index 561
P. James E. Peebles is Albert Einstein Professor of Science Emeritus in the Department of Physics at Princeton University, New Jersey. Lyman A. Page, Jr is Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics at Princeton University, New Jersey. R. Bruce Partridge is Marshall Professor of Natural Sciences at Haverford College, Pennsylvania.