Enjoy our Universe: you have no other choice First Edition De Rújula

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198817800
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198817802
• Author(s): De Rújula, Alvaro

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.

Table contents:

1. Physics as an Art Form
2. Science as a Sport
3. The Bothersome Question of Units⋆
4. The Scientific Method
Mass, energy, and momentum⋆⋆
E = mc2, right or wrong?⋆
5. The Three Relativities
The Twin Paradox⋆
6. A First, Fast Visit to the Universe
The Cosmic Background Radiation
The constituents of matter
The sizes of things
The first additional character: The neutrino
Doubling the cast of players, an interlude on antimatter
How elementary is an elementary particle?
7. More on the Fundamental Forces and Their “Carriers”
Electromagnetism
Gravity and the “inertial” and “gravitational” masses
The weak force
Chromodynamics, the strong interaction
The confinement of quarks and gluons
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
The spin-statistics theorem
12. Parallel Realms
The November Revolution
The third family
13. A Parenthesis on “R2QFTs” ⋆⋆
The Mother of all Concepts
14. The Unification of Forces
Serendipity
Gauge Theories⋆⋆
15. A Parenthesis: Is Basic Science Useful?
16. Back to the Twins
Why the Twin Paradox is so paradoxical⋆
Twins according to Einstein
Back to experiments, doable or not
The algebra behind the relativity of time⋆⋆⋆
17. Some Instruments of Macro-Physics
Microwave antennas and satellites
Gravitational-wave interferometers
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”
The Mother of all Substances
Making Higgs Bosons
23. Today’s Standard Models of Particles and Gravity
24. The Expansion of the Universe
Some tempting misconceptions
Distances and redshifts in cosmology
25. Finding Cosmic Fossils
26. Where is the Cosmic Antimatter?
27. More on the Cosmic Background Radiation (CBR or CMB)
Analysis of the CBR anisotropies
28. Problems with the “Old” Big Bang Theory⋆⋆
29. Inflation
Inflationary predictions
30. Limitations and Peculiarities of the Standard Models
31. The Discrete Symmetries of the Fundamental Interactions⋆⋆⋆
32. Dark Matter
Gravitational lensing
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
A Concatenated Glossary of Terms
Index

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