Enjoy Our Universe: You Have No Other Choice Alvaro De Rujula

Enjoy Our Universe: You Have No Other Choice Alvaro De Rujula – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780198817802,0198817800, 9780192550187, 0192550187

Product details:
• ISBN 10: 0192550187
• ISBN 13: 9780192550187
• Author: Alvaro de Rujula

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. 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.

Table contents:

1. Physics as an Art Form

2. Science as a Sport

3. The Bothersome Question of Units⋆

4. The Scientific Method

5. The Three Relativities

6. A First, Fast Visit to the Universe

7. More on the Fundamental Forces and Their “Carriers”

8. Everything … So Far

9. A Parenthesis on Quantum Mechanics

10. Understanding Relativity and Quantum Mechanics

11. Spin, Statistics, Supernovae, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes

12. Parallel Realms

13. A Parenthesis on “R2QFTs” ⋆⋆

14. The Unification of Forces

15. A Parenthesis: Is Basic Science Useful?

16. Back to the Twins

17. Some Instruments of Macro-Physics

18. The Discovery of Gravitational Wave Emission

19. The Direct Detection of Gravitational Waves

20. Some Instruments of Micro-Physics

21. The LHC and its Detectors

22. The “Higgs” Boson, and its Field in the “Vacuum”

23. Today’s Standard Models of Particles and Gravity

24. The Expansion of the Universe

25. Finding Cosmic Fossils

26. Where is the Cosmic Antimatter?

27. More on the Cosmic Background Radiation (CBR or CMB)

28. Problems with the “Old” Big Bang Theory⋆⋆

29. Inflation

30. Limitations and Peculiarities of the Standard Models

31. The Discrete Symmetries of the Fundamental Interactions⋆⋆⋆

32. Dark Matter

33. The Origin of “Structures”

34. The Fate of the Universe

35. Back to the Ether?

36. The Crash

37. In Spite of Our Admitted Ignorance

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