The Weight of the Vacuum - A Scientific History of Dark Energy (Paperback, 2014)

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of cosmic acceleration due to dark energy, a discovery that is all the more perplexing as nobody knows what dark energy actually is. We put the modern concept of cosmological vacuum energy into historical context and show how it grew out of disparate roots in quantum mechanics (zero-point energy) and relativity theory (the cosmological constant, Einstein's "greatest blunder"). These two influences have remained strangely aloof and still co-exist in an uneasy alliance that is at the heart of the greatest crisis in theoretical physics, the cosmological-constant problem.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	SpringerBriefs in Physics
Release date:	May 2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	Helge S. Kragh • James M. Overduin
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	113
Edition:	2014
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-55089-8
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Relativity physics > General
LSN:	3-642-55089-4
Barcode:	9783642550898

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