During the last twenty years, dramatic improvements in methods
of observing astrophysical phenomena from the ground and in space
have added to our knowledge of what the universe is like now and
what it was like in the past, going back to the hot big bang. In
this overview of today's physical cosmology, P.J.E. Peebles shows
how observation has combined with theoretical elements to establish
the subject as a mature science, while he also discusses the most
notable recent attempts to understand the origin and structure of
the universe. A successor to Peebles's classic volume Physical
Cosmology (Princeton, 1971), the book is a comprehensive overview
addressed not only to students but also to scientists active in
fields outside cosmology.
The first chapter of the work presents the elements of physical
cosmology, including the history of the discovery of the expanding
universe. The second, on the cosmological tests that measure the
geometry of spacetime, discusses general relativity theory as the
basis for the tests, and then surveys the broad variety of ways the
tests can be applied with the new generations of telescopes and
detectors. The third chapter deals with the origin of galaxies and
the large-scale structure of the universe, and reviews ideas about
how the evolution of the universe might be traced back to very
early epochs when structure originated. Each section of these
chapters begins with an introduction that can be understood with no
special knowledge beyond undergraduate physics, and then progresses
to more specialized topics.
P.J.E. Peebles is Albert Einstein Professor of Science at
Princeton University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society.
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