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Deconstructing Cosmology (Hardcover)
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Deconstructing Cosmology (Hardcover)
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The advent of sensitive high-resolution observations of the cosmic
microwave background radiation and their successful interpretation
in terms of the standard cosmological model has led to great
confidence in this model's reality. The prevailing attitude is that
we now understand the Universe and need only work out the details.
In this book, Sanders traces the development and successes of
Lambda-CDM, and argues that this triumphalism may be premature. The
model's two major components, dark energy and dark matter, have the
character of the pre-twentieth-century luminiferous aether. While
there is astronomical evidence for these hypothetical fluids, their
enigmatic properties call into question our assumptions of the
universality of locally determined physical law. Sanders explains
how modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) is a significant challenge
for cold dark matter. Overall, the message is hopeful: the field of
cosmology has not become frozen, and there is much fundamental work
ahead for tomorrow's cosmologists.
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