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1 Heige S. Kragh Weight of the vacuum: A Scientific History of Dark Energy 025563 2014 Book  
2 Hobson, Art And the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to... The Accelerating Universe! page no. 468   Journal Article  
3 Salvatore Capozziello Beyond Einstein gravity: A survey of gravitational theories for cosmology and astrophysics 024222 2011 Book  
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TitleWeight of the vacuum: A Scientific History of Dark Energy
Author(s)Heige S. Kragh ;James M. Overduin
PublicationHeidelberg, Springer, 2014.
Descriptionviii, 113p.
Series(Springer Briefs in Physics)
Abstract NoteThe 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of cosmic acceleration due to dark energy, a discovery that is all the more perplexing as nobody knows what dark energy actually is. We put the modern concept of cosmological vacuum energy into historical context and show how it grew out of disparate roots in quantum mechanics (zero-point energy) and relativity theory (the cosmological constant, Einstein's 'greatest blunder'). These two influences have remained strangely aloof and still co-exist in an uneasy alliance that is at the heart of the greatest crisis in theoretical physics, the cosmological-constant problem.
ISBN,Price9783642550898 : Euro 49.99(PB)
Classification524.85
Keyword(s)1. ACCELERATING UNIVERSE 2. COSMIC QUANTUM-ETHER 3. COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT 4. DARK ENERGY 5. ZERO- POINT ENERGY
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TitleAnd the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to... The Accelerating Universe! page no. 468
Author(s)Hobson, Art
Source NotePhysics Teacher vol. 50, 8 (11/01/2012)
Keyword(s)1. ACCELERATING UNIVERSE 2. NOBEL PRIZE - PHYSICS 3. Nobel Prize - Physics 2011
Item TypeJournal Article
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TitleBeyond Einstein gravity: A survey of gravitational theories for cosmology and astrophysics
Author(s)Salvatore Capozziello;Valerio Faraoni
PublicationDordrecht, Springer, 2011.
Descriptionxix, 428p.
Series(Fundamental Theories of Physics)
Abstract NoteBeyond Einstein’s Gravity is a graduate level introduction to extended theories of gravity and cosmology, including variational principles, the weak-field limit, gravitational waves, mathematical tools, exact solutions, as well as cosmological and astrophysical applications. The book provides a critical overview of the research in this area and unifies the existing literature using a consistent notation. Although the results apply in principle to all alternative gravities, a special emphasis is on scalar-tensor and f(R) theories. They were studied by theoretical physicists from early on, and in the 1980s they appeared in attempts to renormalize General Relativity and in models of the early universe. Recently, these theories have seen a new lease of life, in both their metric and metric-affine versions, as models of the present acceleration of the universe without introducing the mysterious and exotic dark energy. The dark matter problem can also be addressed in extended gravity. These applications are contributing to a deeper understanding of the gravitational interaction from both the theoretical and the experimental point of view. An extensive bibliography guides the reader into more detailed literature on particular topics.
ISBN,Price9789400701649 : Eur 119.95(HB)
Classification531.51
Keyword(s)1. ACCELERATING UNIVERSE 2. ALTERNATIVE GRAVITATION THEORIES 3. COSMOLOGICAL INFLATION 4. COSMOLOGY 5. DARK ENERGY 6. DARK MATTER 7. GENERAL RELATIVITY 8. QUANTUM FIELDS ON CURVED SPACES
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