Physical Cosmology

P. J. E. Peebles, P. James E. Peebles

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9780691081083, 9780691081373
• eBook ISBN: 9781400868773
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Physics
• Index: Physics

From the Nobel Prize–winning physicist

Man's view of the universe is widening today, as it did once before in the early days of big telescopes and photographic plates. Modern man, by means of radio, infrared, optical, ultraviolet, and X-ray astronomy, can penetrate the universe to depths never before explored. Phillip James Edwin Peebles has written a pioneering work in this newly defined area of investigation. Intended to bridge the chasm between classical textbooks on cosmology and modern developments, Physical Cosmology serves as a guide to current points of debate in a rapidly changing field.

Originally published in 1972.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Introduction
• I. Golden Moments in Cosmology 1912-1950
• II. Homogeneity and Isotropy of the Universe
• III. Hubble's Constant and the Cosmic Time Scale
• IV. The Mean Mass Density of the Universe
• V. The Microwave Background and the Primeval Fireball Hypothesis
• VI. A Child's Garden of Cosmological Models
• VII. History of the Universe - Scenarios
• VIII. Primeval Helium
• Appendix