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The geometry of the universe / Colin Rourke, University of Warwick, UK.

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Rourke, C. P. (Colin Patrick), 1943-
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Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2021.
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1 online resource (274 pages).
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- About the author -- Table of contents -- PART 1 -- 1 From the Greeks to Einstein -- 1.1 Kepler and Newton -- Kepler's laws of planetary motion -- 1.2 Newtonian physics: gravitation and dynamics -- Newton's laws of motion -- Newton's law of gravitation -- 1.3 Derivation of Kepler's laws 2 and 3 -- Angular momentum -- 1.4 Maxwell and the road to Special Relativity -- The æther and the Michelson-Morley experiments -- 2 Einstein, relativity, model building and de Sitter -- 2.1 Special Relativity -- 2.2 General Relativity -- 2.3 Model building, Einstein's "biggest blunder" -- 2.4 de Sitter space -- de Sitter space and Mach's principle -- 3 The biggest blunder, dark matter and quasars -- 3.1 The biggest blunder -- Weyl's postulate -- De Sitter space as a model for the universe -- 3.2 The standard model -- Two philosophical problems -- 3.3 Dark matter -- Sciama's principle and inertial drag -- The rotation curve -- The fundamental relation -- Spiral structure -- 3.4 The Arp problem -- 3.5 The quasar-galaxy spectrum -- 3.6 Killing the angular momentum obstruction -- 3.7 Embedding Mach's principle in EGR -- 3.8 Outline of Part 2 -- PART 2, 4 Sciama's principle -- 4.1 Inertial frames and Mach's principle -- 4.2 Sciama's principle -- 4.3 An excerpt from Mach's critique -- 4.4 Rotation -- 4.5 The weak Sciama principle -- 4.6 The Lense-Thirring effect -- 4.7 Central rotation -- 4.8 Adding Sciama's principle to EGR -- 4.9 Sciama's principle and black holes -- 4.10 Coda -- 5 The rotation curve -- 5.1 The weak Sciama principle -- 5.2 The dynamical effect of the inertial drag field -- 5.3 A metrical interpretation of inertial drag -- 5.4 Conservation of angular momentum -- 5.5 The fundamental relation -- 5.6 Solving to find rotation curves, 5.7 The basic model -- 5.8 Postscript -- 6 Quasars -- 6.1 Angular momentum and inertial drag -- 6.2 Outline of the threeauthormodel -- 6.3 Three important spheres -- 6.4 Previous work on quasars and gravitational red shift -- 7 Spiral structure -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The generator -- 7.3 The full dynamic -- 7.4 Computing radial velocity -- 7.5 Simplified equations -- 7.6 Mathematica generated pictures -- 7.7 The bulge -- 7.8 Bar galaxies -- 8 Observations -- 8.1 21cm emission observations -- 8.2 Stellar populations -- 8.3 Sagittarius A* -- 8.4 Where is the Sun? -- 8.5 Globular clusters, and 8.6 Local stellar velocities -- 9 Cosmology -- 9.1 The Big Bang? -- 9.2 The distribution of light elements -- 9.3 De Sitter space -- Expansion -- Contraction -- 9.4 Redshift -- 9.5 Cosmic microwave background -- The gravitational fog horizon: a limit to visibility -- The HLSW constant: a crisis in Physics -- Horizon effect and dipole anisotropy -- Quantum fluctuations? -- The multipole power spectrum -- 9.6 Redshift and GRBs revisited -- 9.7 Origin of life -- 9.8 The quasar-galaxy spectrum -- The Hawkins paper -- Quasars and redshift -- Quasars and active galaxies -- Active and spiral galaxies
Summary
"Cosmology, the study of the universe, arouses a great deal of public interest, with serious articles both in the scientific press and in major newspapers, with many of the theories and concepts (e.g. the "big bang" and "black holes") discussed, often in great depth. Accordingly the book is divided into three parts: Part 1: The whole story presented as far as possible for a nontechnical reader Part 2: The same story, told again but for a reader with some technical knowledge Part 3: Appendices with full technical details of several of the important topics covered. Part 1 is readable (and understandable) by anyone with a nodding acquaintance with the basic language of cosmology: events, lights paths, galaxies, black holes and so on. It covers the whole story of the book in a way as untechnical as possible given the scope of the topics covered. Part 2 covers the same ground again but with enough technical details to satisfy a reader with basic knowledge of mathematics and/or physics. Part 3 consists of appendices which are referred to in the other parts and which also contain the highly technical material omitted from Section 2"--
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981123387X
9789811233876 (electronic bk.)
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The predominant life form of the universe.
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