Gravity!
The Quest for Gravitational Waves
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ISBN:
9780198796510
Publication date:
09/07/2018
Hardback
256 pages
216x138mm
Price: 995.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780198796510
Publication date:
09/07/2018
Hardback
256 pages
Pierre Binétruy
Lucid and very accessible explanation of the most monumental and captivating events in the Universe,Striking introduction to the recent discovery of gravitational waves,Sets the discovery into the framework of our growing understanding of the gravitational universe,Focuses on a few concepts, which allows the reader to build his or her own understanding of the way the Universe functions,Based on author's popular free internet courses on gravity which have attracted tens of thousands of subscribers around the world, ranging in age from 9 to 89.
Rights: OUP UK (INDIAN TERRITORY)
Pierre Binétruy
Description
What force do the Big Bang, the expansion of the Universe, dark matter and dark energy, black holes, and gravitational waves all have in common? This book uncovers gravity as a key to understanding these fascinating phenomena that have so captivated public interest in recent years. Readers will discover the latest findings on how this familiar force in our everyday lives powers the most colossal changes in the Universe. Written by the widely recognized French public scientist and leading astrophysicist Pierre Binétruy, the book also explains the recent experimental confirmation of the existence of gravitational waves.
About the author
Pierre Binétruy, Professor, Université Paris-DiderotPierre Binétruy was a theorist working on various aspects of the gravitational universe: cosmic inflation, dark energy and dark matter, black holes and gravitational waves. He was recently very active in setting up the future space gravitational wave observatory, the LISA mission. He was a professor at Université Paris Diderot, and the director of the Paris Centre for Cosmological Physics, which he established in 2010 with George Smoot, the Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 2006. He taught the online course 'Gravity!', which attracted close to 100,000 learners in its first two years.
Pierre Binétruy
Table of contents
1:The Gravitational Force: Galileo, Newton, Einstein
2:General Relativity: From a Theory of Gravity to a Theory of the Universe
3:Observing the Universe
4:The Two Infinites
5:First Moments of the Universe: From Inflation to the First Light
6:Dark Energy and Quantum Vacuum
7:Lessons in Darkness: Black Holes
8:Gravity Turned into Waves
9:'Seeing' the Gravitational Universe
10:Towards Which Future?
Pierre Binétruy
Description
What force do the Big Bang, the expansion of the Universe, dark matter and dark energy, black holes, and gravitational waves all have in common? This book uncovers gravity as a key to understanding these fascinating phenomena that have so captivated public interest in recent years. Readers will discover the latest findings on how this familiar force in our everyday lives powers the most colossal changes in the Universe. Written by the widely recognized French public scientist and leading astrophysicist Pierre Binétruy, the book also explains the recent experimental confirmation of the existence of gravitational waves.
About the author
Pierre Binétruy, Professor, Université Paris-DiderotPierre Binétruy was a theorist working on various aspects of the gravitational universe: cosmic inflation, dark energy and dark matter, black holes and gravitational waves. He was recently very active in setting up the future space gravitational wave observatory, the LISA mission. He was a professor at Université Paris Diderot, and the director of the Paris Centre for Cosmological Physics, which he established in 2010 with George Smoot, the Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 2006. He taught the online course 'Gravity!', which attracted close to 100,000 learners in its first two years.
Table of contents
1:The Gravitational Force: Galileo, Newton, Einstein
2:General Relativity: From a Theory of Gravity to a Theory of the Universe
3:Observing the Universe
4:The Two Infinites
5:First Moments of the Universe: From Inflation to the First Light
6:Dark Energy and Quantum Vacuum
7:Lessons in Darkness: Black Holes
8:Gravity Turned into Waves
9:'Seeing' the Gravitational Universe
10:Towards Which Future?
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