Quintessence

Krauss, Lawrence M.

ISBN 10: 009942228X / ISBN 13: 9780099422280

Editore: Random House Pod, 2001

Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present. Codice articolo M0009942228X-G

Riassunto:

Will the universe continue to expand forever, reverse its expansion and begin to contract, or reach a delicately poised state where it simply persists forever? The answer depends on the amount and properties of matter in the universe, and that has given rise to one of the great paradoxes of modern cosmology; there is too little visible matter to account for the behaviour we can see. Over 90 percent of the universe consists of 'missing mass' or 'dark matter' - what Lawrence Krauss, in his classic book, termed "the fifth essence". In this new edition of The Fifth Essence, retitled Quintessence after the now widely accepted term for dark matter, Krauss shows how the dark matter problem is now connected with two of the hottest areas in recent cosmology: the fate of the universe and the "cosmological constant." With a new introduction, epilogue and chapter updates, Krauss updates his classic and shares one of the most stunning discoveries of recent years: an antigravity force that explains recent observations of a permanently expanding universe.

Informazioni sull?autore: Lawrence M. Krauss is the Chairman of Physics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio where he lives.

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Titolo: Quintessence
Casa editrice: Random House Pod
Data di pubblicazione: 2001
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: good
Edizione: seconda edizione