Josef M. Gassner leads us skilfully and comprehensibly through the greatest story of all time
In "Cosmology", the theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist Josef M. Gassner and the experimental physicist Jörn Müller tell the greatest story of all time: modern cosmology.
It is about nothing less than everything: where we come from - where we're headed - and what happens in-between. In a clear and comprehensible way, which does not exclude mathematical digressions, the authors pave the way to deeper understanding. Even with necessary simplifications, they always remain scientifically accurate as they answer a series of questions that are otherwise excluded from works of popular science: What caused the big bang and what preceded it? How large is the universe and what lies beyond it? How does the cosmos expand? Do space, time, and we ourselves expand? Is our three-dimensional world simply a holographic projection? Why are the objects in the universe as they are and not otherwise? Is life an eternal model for success or will it come to an end?
Along the way, the authors address the informational paradox of black holes, Hawking radiation and Rindler spacetime. They report on infinitely hot objects, which are as large as a planet and yet obey the laws of the most minute objects, those of quantum mechanics. They write of dark matter, dark energy, negative pressure, entropic gravitation, and lead the reader with the aid of Friedmann equations to the beginning of all existence: the big bang. In the search for our own origins, primordial nucleosynthesis, cosmic background radiation, structure formation in the cosmos, galaxies, stars, and not least the metamophosis of dead matter into living organisms provide the decisive answers.
Whoever engages with this book will view our world and their own existence with completely fresh eyes!
