Lemaître, the Big Bang and the Quantum Universe

This book provides a comprehensive, self-contained introduction to one of the most exciting frontiers in astrophysics today: the quest to understand how the oldest and most distant galaxies in our universe first formed. Until now, most research on this question has been theoretical, but the next few years will bring about a new generation of large telescopes that promise to supply a flood of data about the infant universe during its first billion years after the big bang. This book bridges the gap between theory and observation. It is an invaluable reference for students and researchers on early galaxies. The book starts from basic physical principles before moving on to more advanced material. Topics include the gravitational growth of structure, the intergalactic medium, the formation and evolution of the first stars and black holes, feedback and galaxy evolution, reionization, 21-cm cosmology, and more.

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Option Value Created and Destroyed by the Big Bang in the Berlin Housing Market, 1978-2007

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1537397 ◽

2009 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

John M. Clapp ◽

Thies Lindenthal

Keyword(s):

Housing Market ◽

Big Bang ◽

Option Value ◽

The Big Bang

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El Big Bang antes del Big Bang seggn Spencer, Darwin y Poe (The Big Bang before the Big Bang in Spencer, Darwin, and Poe)

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2463993 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Jose Angel Garcia Landa

Keyword(s):

Big Bang ◽

The Big Bang

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The Planet in a Pebble

10.1093/oso/9780199569700.001.0001 ◽

2010 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Jan Zalasiewicz

Keyword(s):

Solar System ◽

Volcanic Eruptions ◽

Big Bang ◽

Forensic Analysis ◽

Mineral Matter ◽

Supernova Explosions ◽

Deep Underground ◽

The Big Bang ◽

The Universe

This is the story of a single pebble. It is just a normal pebble, as you might pick up on holiday - on a beach in Wales, say. Its history, though, carries us into abyssal depths of time, and across the farthest reaches of space. This is a narrative of the Earth's long and dramatic history, as gleaned from a single pebble. It begins as the pebble-particles form amid unimaginable violence in distal realms of the Universe, in the Big Bang and in supernova explosions and continues amid the construction of the Solar System. Jan Zalasiewicz shows the almost incredible complexity present in such a small and apparently mundane object. Many events in the Earth's ancient past can be deciphered from a pebble: volcanic eruptions; the lives and deaths of extinct animals and plants; the alien nature of long-vanished oceans; and transformations deep underground, including the creations of fool's gold and of oil. Zalasiewicz demonstrates how geologists reach deep into the Earth's past by forensic analysis of even the tiniest amounts of mineral matter. Many stories are crammed into each and every pebble around us. It may be small, and ordinary, this pebble - but it is also an eloquent part of our Earth's extraordinary, never-ending story.

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