Cosmology & The Universe

The book begins with a brief review of supersymmetry, and the construction of the minimal supersymmetric standard model and approaches to supersymm...

Relativistic cosmology has in recent years become one of the most active and exciting branches of research, often considered to be today where part...

In 1936, Albert Einstein predicted that gravitational distortions would allow space itself to act as a telescope far more powerful than humans coul...

With stunning regularity, the search for our cosmic roots has been yielding remarkable new discoveries about the universe and our place in it. In h...

Black holes are becoming increasingly important in contemporary research in astrophysics, cosmology, theoretical physics, and mathematics. Indeed, ...

The military, political, and economic preeminence of the United States during the post-World War II era is based to a substantial degree on its sup...

A comparative overview of common images of the universe from world art and folklore and their similarities to our current scientific understanding.

From award-winning science writer Barry Parker, the only book to consider chaos theory in all areas of astronomy.

An accessible overview of the evolution and development of our universe- from the Big Bang to cosmic strings.

An account of the discovery of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet and its spectacular collision with Jupiter, just 6 months later, written by one of the co...

A foremost thinker on science and religion argues that an adequate understanding of cosmic history requires attention to the emergence of interiori...

What would that universe be like if human beings were not here to observe it? Would there be still be numbers, or scientific laws? Would the univer...

Modern cosmology has changed significantly over the years, from the discovery to the precision measurement era. The data now available provide a we...

A monograph on inflationary cosmology and cosmological phase transitions, investigating modern cosmology's relationship to elementary particle phys...

Recent developments in theoretical physics, including systems theory and chaos theory, are challenging long-held mechanistic views of the universe....

What happens when the century's greatest logician meets the century's greatest physicist? In the case of Kurt Gdel and Albert Einstein, the result ...

Black holes are becoming increasingly important in contemporary research in astrophysics, cosmology, theoretical physics, and mathematics. Indeed, ...

Dust is widespread in the galaxy. To astronomers studying stars it may be just an irritating fog, but it is becoming widely recognized that cosmic ...

With stunning regularity, the search for our cosmic roots has been yielding remarkable new discoveries about the universe and our place in it. In h...

Inspired by the end of the millennium, celebrated science writer Paul Halpern tackles the fate of human civilization and our planet in this meditat...