30-Second Universe

Autorentext
Charles Liu is a Professor of Astrophysics at the City University of New York’s College of Staten Island, an Associate with the Hayden Planetarium, and of the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He is a regular co-host on the famous StarTalk show, and received the 2001 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award for his book One Universe: At Home in the Cosmos. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

Zusammenfassung
The universe literally encompasses everything we were, are and will be, everything we knew, know and can know. When we decide to understand the universe as a whole, new truths come to light, and unexpected perspectives illuminate our take on life. 30-Second Universe explains all the tantalising concepts, principles and theories that make up our knowledge – the Higgs particle, gluons, quarks, the multiverse, how certainty itself can be uncertain, and of course, where our world came from, and where we’re going and what will happen in the end – and it explains these astrophysical answers succinctly, each entry taking only 30 seconds to read, with further exploration flagged, and key scientists noted. This one small book sheds light on the biggest ideas, concepts and discoveries in life, in the universe, in everything.

Inhalt
6 Introduction
 
10 Origins of the Universe
12 GLOSSARY
14 Profile: Henrietta Swan Leavitt
16 Big Bang
18 Where it all began
20 When it all began
22 How it all began
24 The forces awaken
26 Baryon acoustic oscillations
28 Matter & antimatter
30 Cosmic microwave background
32 Cosmic reionization
 
34 Observable Universe
36 GLOSSARY
38 Profile: Vera Rubin
40 General relativity
42 Cosmic curvature
44 Cosmological constant
46 Gravity
48 Matter bright & dark
50 Energy bright & dark
 
52 Quantum Universe
54 GLOSSARY
56 Profile: Marie Curie
58 Quantum uncertainty
60 Standard model
62 Higgs boson
64 Bosons, the force carriers
66 Missing mass
68 Neutrinos
 
70 Physical Universe
72 GLOSSARY
74 Profile: Hypatia of Alexandria
76 Kepler’s laws of orbital motion
78 Newton’s laws of motion
80 Black holes
82 Galaxies
84 Stars
86 Between the stars
88 Planets
90 Life as we know it
 
92 Metaphysical Universe
94 GLOSSARY
96 Profile: Immanuel Kant
98 Ancient universe
100 Universe hypothesized
102 Universe observed
104 Knowing the unknowable
106 Why are we here?
108 Cosmic consciousness
 
110 Fate of the Universe
112 GLOSSARY
114 Profile: Stephen Hawking
116 End of life on Earth
118 Fate of our planet
120 Death of the Sun
122 Galaxies crash
124 Stars into ash
126 Matter disintegrated
128 Black holes evaporated
130 Finale dark & cold
 
132 Multiverse
134 GLOSSARY
136 Profile: Erwin Schrödinger
138 Infinite universe
140 Many worlds
142 String theory
144 Supersymmetry
146 M-Theory
148 Cosmic multiconnections
150 Universe unknown
 
152 Appendices
154 Resources
156 Notes on authors
158 Index
160 Acknowledgements
 

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