After The Beginning : A Cosmic Journey Through Space And Time - Norman K Glendenning

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After The Beginning

A Cosmic Journey Through Space And Time

By: Norman K Glendenning

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Hardcover | 11 August 2004

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In a brilliant flash about fourteen billion years ago, time and matter were born in a single instant of creation. An immensely hot and dense universe began its rapid expansion everywhere, creating space where there was no space and time where there was no time. In the intense fire just after the beginning, the lightest elements were forged, later to form primordial clouds that eventually evolved into galaxies, stars, and planets. This evolution is the story told in this fascinating book. Interwoven with the storyline are short pieces on the pioneering men and women who revealed those wonders to us.

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?... the author is particularly enlightening on early 'eras' in the history of the universe (superradiant, hadronic, leptonic, etc.) ..."

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Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
List of Figures	p. xv
Island Universes	p. 1
The First Move	p. 1
Looking Back	p. 4
Age and Size of the Visible Universe	p. 18
Expanding Universe	p. 24
Cosmological Principle	p. 26
Inflationary Epoch	p. 27
Beyond the Visible Universe	p. 27
Boxes 1-3	p. 28
The Large and the Small	p. 30
Face to Face	p. 30
Space, Time, and Relativity	p. 30
Physics of the Very Small: Quantum Mechanics	p. 32
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle	p. 37
Radiation in the Early Universe	p. 37
Other Planets Around Other Suns	p. 44
Life on Other Planets	p. 46
Different Points of View	p. 49
Milky Way	p. 52
Universe Without a Center	p. 55
Cosmic Horizon as Small as a Nucleon	p. 57
Box 4	p. 58
Big Bang	p. 59
Hubble's Discovery	p. 59
Evidence for a Big Bang	p. 61
A Day Without Yesterday	p. 63
Temperature Measured at an Earlier Time	p. 68
Model Universes	p. 69
Scale Factor of the Universe	p. 73
Theories of Expansion	p. 77
The big crunch	p. 78
Einstein-de Sitter universe	p. 79
Accelerating universe	p. 79
Recycling universe	p. 80
Boxes 5-8	p. 81
Elementary Particles - Fundamental Forces	p. 84
The Atom	p. 84
Vacuum: Particles, Antiparticles, and Dirac	p. 97
Antiparticles and Antiuniverses	p. 101
The Particle Explosion	p. 102
Cosmic rays	p. 102
Laboratory beams of particles	p. 104
So Many Riches	p. 105
The Quarks and Leptons	p. 109
The Force Carriers	p. 114
The Primeval Fireball	p. 118
Cosmic Evolution	p. 118
Heat, Temperature, and Equilibrium	p. 120
Planck Era (t [less than sign] 10[superscript -43] Seconds)	p. 121
Radiation-Dominated Era (t = 10[superscript -11] Seconds to 10[superscript 6] Years)	p. 123
Superradiant era (t = 10[superscript -11] to 10[superscript -5] seconds)	p. 126
Hadronic era (t = 10[superscript -5] to 10[superscript -3] seconds)	p. 127
Leptonic era (t = 10[superscript -3] to 1 second)	p. 129
Formation of the light elements (t = 100 seconds to 10 minutes)	p. 137
Measurement of primordial abundances of elements	p. 142
Decoupling of radiation and matter (t = 300 000 to 1 million years)	p. 144
Close of the Radiation Era	p. 146
Matter Dominance	p. 147
Boxes 9-20	p. 152
Galaxy Clusters, Galaxies, and Stars	p. 161
Structure Formation	p. 161
Cloud Collapse in the Radiation Era	p. 165
Matter Era	p. 167
Galaxy Formation	p. 167
Galaxy Types	p. 170
Star Formation	p. 172
Nova and Supernova	p. 172
Nova: creation of a white dwarf	p. 175
Supernova: creation of a neutron star or black hole	p. 176
Boxes 21-25	p. 178
The Future Universe	p. 183
Dark Matter, Dark Energy	p. 183
The Three Ages of the Universe	p. 185
The Great Cosmology Experiments	p. 186
Supernova cosmology	p. 187
The seed of our galaxy	p. 190
Boxes 26-29	p. 194
Books for Further Study	p. 198
Index	p. 201
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After The Beginning

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