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Cosmic Paradoxes (Third Edition) (Paperback)
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Cosmic Paradoxes (Third Edition) (Paperback)
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'Cosmic Paradoxes' was an outcome of a Conference-Summer Course on
'Astrophysical Cosmology: Frontier Questions' held at El Escorial,
Madrid, on August 16-19, 1993. The Scientific Directors were John C
Mather, Director of NASA's COBE (Cosmic Background Radiation
Explorer), and Jose M Torroja, Secretary of the Spanish Academy of
Sciences. Julio A Gonzalo, UAM, was in charge of coordinating the
event. The first speaker was Ralph A Alpher, one of the pioneers
who predicted very early the CBR (Cosmic Background Radiation). The
CBR was observed by A Penzias and R Wilson, Bell Telephone Labs, in
1965. Thereafter it was measured with unprecedented precision by
the COBE in 1989, characterizing the Planck spectral distribution
of the CBR (J C Mather) and detecting its minute anisotropies (G
Smoot). In 2003 the WMAP, NASA's satellite successor of the COBE,
confirmed COBE's results, and gave an excellent quantitative
estimate of the 'age' of the universe as 13.7 +/- 0.2 Gyrs, in
support of the Big Bang theory of cosmic origins.In the Third
Edition of this book, almost coincident with the launch reports of
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), includes recent work
discussing evidence in favor of an open finite universe. A further
discussion of the Heisenberg-Lemaitre time (Appendix D) takes into
consideration that the cosmic expansion velocity at very early
times is R(yHL) c and reviews in more detail the thermal history of
the universe.
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