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Observational Tests of Cosmological Inflation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991) Loot Price: R5,766
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Observational Tests of Cosmological Inflation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991): T. Shanks, A.J....

Observational Tests of Cosmological Inflation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)

T. Shanks, A.J. Banday, Richard S. Ellis, Carlos S. Frenk, A.W. Wolfendale

Series: NATO Science Series C, 348

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This book represents the proceedings from the NATO sponsored Advanced Research Workshop entitled "Observational Tests of Inflation" held at the University of Durham, England on the 10th-14th December, 1990. In recent years, the cosmological inflation model has drawn together the worlds of particle physics, theoretical cosmology and observational astronomy. The aim of the workshop was to bring together experts in all of these fields to discuss the current status of the inflation theory and its observational predictions. The simplest inflation model makes clear predictions which are testable by astronomical observation. Foremost is the prediction that the cosmological density parameter, no, should have a value negligibly different from the critical, Einstein-de Sitter value of 00=1. The other main prediction is that the spectrum of primordial density fluctuations should be Gaussian and take the Harrison-Zeldovich form. The prediction that n =l, in patticular, leads to several important consequences o for cosmology. Firstly, there is the apparent contradiction with the limits on baryon density from Big Bang nucleosynthesis which has led to the common conjecture that weakly interacting particles rather than baryons may form the dominant mass constituent of the Universe. Secondly, with n =l, the age of the Universe is uncomfortably short if o the Hubble constant and the ages of the oldest star clusters lie within their currently believed limits.

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Imprint: Springer
Country of origin: Netherlands
Series: NATO Science Series C, 348
Release date: October 2012
First published: 1991
Editors: T. Shanks • A.J. Banday • Richard S. Ellis • Carlos S. Frenk • A.W. Wolfendale
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 483
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991
ISBN-13: 978-9401055529
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Cosmology & the universe
Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Nuclear structure physics
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LSN: 9401055521
Barcode: 9789401055529

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