02871nam 2200577Ia 450 991078391460332120230617010325.01-281-89698-59786611896980981-270-123-0(CKB)1000000000334317(EBL)296143(OCoLC)476063645(SSID)ssj0000178895(PQKBManifestationID)11167411(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000178895(PQKBWorkID)10230084(PQKB)10273076(MiAaPQ)EBC296143(WSP)00000318 (Au-PeEL)EBL296143(CaPaEBR)ebr10173916(CaONFJC)MIL189698(EXLCZ)99100000000033431720050609d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrInflationary cosmology revisited[electronic resource] an overview of contemporary scientific cosmology after the inflationary proposal /Julio A. GonzaloSingapore ;Hackensack, NJ World Scientificc20051 online resource (120 p.)Description based upon print version of record.981-256-151-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Foreword; Prologue; Contents; Chapter 1 Steady State versus Big Bang Cosmology; Chapter 2 The Microwave CBR; Chapter 3 The Birth of Inflationary Cosmology; Chapter 4 The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE); Chapter 5 Dark Matter, Cosmic Flatness & Accelerated Expansion; Chapter 6 The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP); Chapter 7 On the Monopole, Flatness and Horizon Problems; Chapter 8 An Alternative to Inflation?; Appendix How close are the cosmic times for matter/radiation equality and for atom formation?; A Brief Glossary; IndexScientific Cosmology is clearly one of the most active physics research fields at present, and likely to remain so in the near future. Shortly after the pioneering cosmological work of Einstein, Georges Lemaitre proposed a model which some years later to be known as the big-bang model. In the early fifties an alternative proposal, the so called steady-state (expansion at constant density) model, became the fashionable model in prominent academic circles. The discovery of the cosmic background microwave radiation (Penzias & Wilson, 1965) made the steady-state model almost untenable. A quarter oInflationary universeCosmologyInflationary universe.Cosmology.523.1Gonzalo Julio A(Julio Antonio)870857MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783914603321Inflationary cosmology revisited3738919UNINA