Current Issues in Cosmology
by Pecker, Jean-Claude; Narlikar, JayantFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-09-15
Publisher(s): Cambridge Univ Pr
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Summary
What are the current ideas describing the large-scale structure of the Universe? How do they relate to the observed facts? This book, first published in 2006, looks at both the strengths and weaknesses of the current big-bang model in explaining certain puzzling data. It arises from an international conference that brought together many of the world's leading players in cosmology. In addition to presenting individual talks, the proceedings of the resulting discussions are also recorded. Giving a comprehensive coverage of the expanding field of cosmology, this text will be valuable for graduate students and researchers in cosmology and theoretical astrophysics.
Table of Contents
| Observational Facts Relating to Discrete Sources | |
| The state of cosmology | |
| The redshifts of galaxies and QSOs | |
| Accretion discs in quasars | |
| Observational Facts Relating to Background Radiation | |
| CMB observations and consequences | |
| Abundances of light nuclei | |
| Evidence for an accelerating universe or lack of | |
| Standard Cosmology | |
| Cosmology, an overview of the standard model | |
| What are the building blocks of our universe? | |
| Large-Scale Structure | |
| Observations of large-scale structure | |
| Reconstruction of large-scale peculiar velocity fields | |
| Alternative Cosmologies | |
| The quasi-steady state cosmology | |
| Evidence for iron whiskers in the universe | |
| Alternatives to dark matter: MOND + Mach | |
| Anthropic principle in cosmology | |
| Evidence for Anomalous Redshifts | |
| Anomalous redshifts | |
| Redshifts of galaxies and QSOs: the problem of redshift periodicities | |
| Statistics of redshift periodicities | |
| Local abnormal redshifts | |
| Gravitational lensing and anomalous redshifts | |
| Panel discussion | |
| General discussion | |
| Concluding remarks | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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