The Weight of the Vacuum : A Scientific History of Dark Energy
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
SpringerBriefs in Physics
ISBN-10
3642550894
ISBN-13
9783642550898
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 5th, 2014
Print length
113 Pages
Weight
208 grams
Dimensions
15.70 x 23.60 x 0.80 cms
Product Classification:
Philosophy of scienceHistory of scienceRelativity physics
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The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of cosmic acceleration due to dark energy, a discovery that is all the more perplexing as nobody knows what dark energy actually is.
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of cosmic acceleration due to dark energy, a discovery that is all the more perplexing as nobody knows what dark energy actually is. We put the modern concept of cosmological vacuum energy into historical context and show how it grew out of disparate roots in quantum mechanics (zero-point energy) and relativity theory (the cosmological constant, Einstein's “greatest blunder”). These two influences have remained strangely aloof and still co-exist in an uneasy alliance that is at the heart of the greatest crisis in theoretical physics, the cosmological-constant problem.
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