Discovery of Cosmic Fractals
by Baryshev, Yurij; Teerikorpi, PekkaFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-04-01
Publisher(s): WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC
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Summary
In a simple manner, explains the frontiers of astronomy, how fractals appear in cosmic physics, offers a personal view of the history of the idea of self-similarity and of cosmological principles and presents the debate which illustrates how new concepts and deeper observations reveal unexpected aspects of Nature.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Prologue | |
| The Science of Cosmic Order | p. 1 |
| The birth of cosmological principles | p. 3 |
| The gate into cosmic order | p. 21 |
| The Paradoxal Universe of Sir Isaac | p. 41 |
| The dream of a hierarchical world: protofractals | p. 53 |
| Cosmological Physics for the Realm of Galaxies | p. 67 |
| The new world of relativity and quantum forces | p. 69 |
| Gravity - the enigmatic creator of order | p. 89 |
| The law of redshift in the kingdom of galaxies | p. 109 |
| The triumph of uniformity in cosmology | p. 129 |
| The Elusive Simplicity of Uniform Space and Matter | p. 149 |
| The mysterious singularity | p. 151 |
| Dark matter - the grey eminence | p. 171 |
| Dark energy - the new emperor | p. 183 |
| Expansion and curvature of space | p. 193 |
| The Fractal Architecture of the Universe | p. 213 |
| Cosmic hierarchies: from dream to science | p. 215 |
| The charm of self-similarity | p. 229 |
| Fractal and chaos: planets, stardust, dark haloes | p. 247 |
| Redshift - the quiet cosmographer | p. 269 |
| Fractal structure of the galaxy universe | p. 295 |
| The Origins of Megafractals | p. 329 |
| Appendix A | p. 359 |
| Suggestions for Reading | p. 361 |
| Index | p. 363 |
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