LEADER 02495nam 2200577Ia 450 001 9910782272603321 005 20230721032744.0 010 $a1-281-93393-7 010 $a9786611933937 010 $a981-279-143-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000538175 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24684964 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000227080 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11185962 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000227080 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10263297 035 $a(PQKB)10784095 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1681493 035 $a(WSP)00001936 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1681493 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10255646 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL193393 035 $a(OCoLC)815752222 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000538175 100 $a20080128d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA primer on the physics of the cosmic microwave background$b[electronic resource] /$fMassimo Giovannini 210 $aSingapore ;$aHackensack, NJ $cWorld Scientific$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 474 p. ) $cill 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 311 $a981-279-142-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 455-466) and index. 327 $aWhy CMB Physics; Electromagnetic Emission of the Observable Universe; From CMB to the Standard Cosmological Model; Problems with the Standard Cosmological Model (SCM); Beyond the SCM; Essentials of Inflationary Dynamics; Inhomogeneities in FRW Models; The First Lap in CMB Anisotropies; Improved Fluid Description of Pre-Decoupling Physics; Kinetic Hierarchies of Multipole Moments; Early Initial Conditions; Surfing on the Gauges; Interacting Fluids; Spectator Fields; Appendices: The Concept of Distance in Cosmology; Kinetic Description of Hot Plasmas; Scalar Modes of the Geometry; Metric Fluctuations: Gauge Independent Treatment. 330 $aThis title addresses the general motivations and principles that inspire modern searches of a common lore in gravitation, cosmology and high energy physics. 606 $aCosmic background radiation 606 $aPhysics 615 0$aCosmic background radiation. 615 0$aPhysics. 676 $a523.1 700 $aGiovannini$b Massimo$037553 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782272603321 996 $aPrimer on the physics of the cosmic microwave background$91224638 997 $aUNINA