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Balbi, Amedeo |
The Music of the Big Bang |
I07421 |
2008 |
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Balbi, Amedeo |
La musica del Big Bang |
I06774 |
2007 |
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| Title | The Music of the Big Bang : The Cosmic Microwave Background and the New Cosmology |
| Author(s) | Balbi, Amedeo |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008. |
| Description | XVI, 160 p. 41 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The cosmic microwave background radiation is the afterglow of the big bang: a tenuous signal, more than 13 billion years old, which carries the answers to many of the questions about the nature of our Universe. It was serendipitously discovered in 1964, and thoroughly investigated in the last four decades by a large number of experiments. Two Nobel Prizes in Physics have already been awarded for research on the cosmic background radiation: one in 1978 to Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, who first discovered it, the other in 2006, to George Smoot and John Mather, for the results of the COBE satellite. Most cosmological information is encoded in the cosmic background radiation by acoustic oscillations in the dense plasma that filled the primordial Universe: a "music" of the big bang, which cosmologists have long been trying to reconstruct and analyze, in order to distinguish different cosmological models, much like one can distinguish different musical instruments by their timbre and overtones. Only lately, this amazing cosmic sound has been unveiled by such experiments as BOOMERANG and MAXIMA and, more recently, by the WMAP satellite. This led to a giant leap in our understanding of the Universe, but the investigation is not ended yet. The book focuses on how the exploration of the cosmic background radiation has shaped our picture of the Universe, leading even the non-specialized readers towards the frontier of cosmological research, helping them to understand, using a simple language and captivating metaphors, the mechanisms behind the Universe in which we live. "This non-technical tour of the discovery and significance of the whispers of creation, the fossil radiation from the Big Bang, is a delight to read." Prof. Joe Silk, University of Oxford, a pioneering contributor to understanding the structure of the cosmic background radiation |
| ISBN,Price | 9783540787280 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
3. ASTROPHYSICS
4. Astrophysics and Astroparticles
5. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
6. EBOOK
7. EBOOK - SPRINGER
8. GRAVITATION
9. Popular Science in Astronomy
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| Title | La musica del Big Bang : Come la radiazione cosmica di fondo ci ha svelato i segreti dell???Universo |
| Author(s) | Balbi, Amedeo |
| Publication | Milano, Springer Milan, 2007. |
| Description | XIII, 217 pagg : online resource |
| Abstract Note | La radiazione cosmica di fondo ?? il residuo del grande calore seguito al Big Bang. Un tenue segnale, vecchio di oltre 13 miliardi di anni, in cui si celano le risposte a molte delle domande sulla natura del nostro Universo. Scoperta casualmente nel 1964, negli ultimi quarant???anni questa traccia fossile delle origini del Cosmo ?? stata esplorata con ogni mezzo disponibile. Due premi Nobel per la fisica sono gi?? stati assegnati per ricerche che la riguardano, l???ultimo nel 2006 per i risultati del satellite COBE. Molte delle informazioni codificate nella radiazione cosmica di fondo sono state impresse dal sovrapporsi di onde acustiche presenti nell???Universo primordiale: una "musica" del Big Bang, che i cosmologi hanno tentato per anni di ricostruire, usando tecniche analoghe a quelle che permettono di distinguere il suono di diversi strumenti musicali. Solo di recente le prime note di questa straordinaria sinfonia cosmica sono finalmente state svelate, ma l???indagine non ?? ancora finita. Questo libro illustra, con un linguaggio adatto anche al non specialista, le teorie, le osservazioni e le scoperte che hanno fatto entrare la cosmologia in una nuova era. Amedeo Balbi ?? ricercatore presso il Dipartimento di Fisica dell???Universit?? di Roma Tor Vergata. In passato ha lavorato tra l???altro all???Universit?? di Berkeley in California con George Smoot (premio Nobel 2006 per la fisica). Tra le sue attivit?? attuali c????? la partecipazione alla missione spaziale Planck dell???ESA |
| ISBN,Price | 9788847006133 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
3. Astronomy???Observations
4. ASTROPHYSICS
5. Astrophysics and Astroparticles
6. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
7. EBOOK
8. EBOOK - SPRINGER
9. GRAVITATION
10. Observations, Astronomical
11. Popular Science in Astronomy
12. SPACE SCIENCES
13. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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