Modern
Cosmology| Modern
Cosmology |
General Principles, Status, and Issues > s.a. anthropic
principle; cosmological constant; Cosmological
Principle;
holography.
* Idea: Study of the observations on and dynamics of the universe
as a whole, including the early universe.
* Steps, status: 1929,
Cosmology becomes a science, based on observation, with Hubble's observation
of the expansion of the universe, and its predictions
are subject to testing; Proposal of hot big bang; Observation of cmb; 1992,
First COBE results on anisotropy; 1997, First evidence that the expansion is
accelerating,
concept
of dark energy;
2003, Emergence of "precision
cosmology" with the first WMAP results; 2009, The dominant source of uncertainty
in many observations will soon be cosmic
variance as opposed to observational noise.
* Central dogma: The same laws of physics we can test here on Earth
apply everywhere in the universe.
@ Cosmography: [kinematics of cosmology] Visser GRG(05)gq/04-in;
Capozziello et al PRD(08).
> Models: see cosmological
models; multiverse [including
other worlds, natural selection]; numerical general
relativity; quantum
cosmology.
Other Aspects > s.a. entropy;
gravitational thermodynamics; Rigidity;
rotation;
Superfluids.
* Cosmic coincidence problem: The
fact that the densities of vacuum energy and matter are nearly equal today.
@ Statistics, number counts: Colombi et al MNRAS(00)ap/99;
Szapudi et al MNRAS(00)ap/99,
MNRAS(99)ap/99; > s.a. galaxy
distribution.
@ Beginning and initial singularity: Narlikar PhSc(92)sep;
Bogdanov & Bogdanov CQG(01)
[!!!]; Vaas bdw(04)phy [lqg];
Szydlowski et al PRD(05)
[vs bounce, test]; Grøn EJP(06)
[and spatially infinite universe]; Ashtekar phy/06-in
[in quantum gravity]; Frampton a0704-book
[I, re beginning and end]; Stenger Philo(06)-a0710 [model];
Berman
IJTP(09)
[not there]; > s.a.
boundary conditions in quantum cosmology; history [entropic
creation argument]; quantum-gravity
phenomenology, quantum cosmology, singularities.
@ Complexity and order: Layzer 89 [I-II]; Parker [I]; Hu in(88)gq/95;
Kunz
et
al PRD(06)
[and parameters]; > s.a. complexity.
@ Local vs global physics: Ellis IJMPA(02)gq/01; > s.a.
arrow of time; mach's
principle,
Olbers' Paradox, relativistic
cosmology.
@ Coincidences, tuning, naturality: & Hoyle; Carter pr(67)-a0710 [foundation
for anthropic principle]; Griest PRD(02)
[proposal]; Rees in(03)ap/04;
Carroll ht/05/Nat;
França PLB(06),
Funkhouser PRS(06),
PRS(08)phy/06 [proposals];
del Campo et al PRD(08)-a0806.
> Phenomenology: see
large-scale geometry and topology;
matter content; observational
cosmology [including
age].
> Pre-big-bang cosmology:
see loop quantum cosmology; string phenomenology.
The Future of the Universe > s.a. Big
Trip; Civilizations; Doomsday
Argument; models.
* Big rip: A scenario
in which eventually all local structure will be ripped apart by expansion if
dark energy is phantom energy.
* Matter and radiation:
2007, Krauss & Scherrer predict matter energy density will keep dominating
radiation energy density.
@ General: Davies 94 [I]; Adams & Laughlin RMP(97)ap [astrophysics];
Krauss & Turner
GRG(99);
Krauss & Starkman SA(99)nov [and life]; Starobinsky G&C(00)ap/99-in;
Goldsmith 00, Barrow et al MNRAS(00)ap [including
acceleration]; Avelino et al PLB(01)
[and inflation]; Tipler ap/01-in;
Chiueh & He
PRD(02)ap/01 [local
structure]; Hoeneisen ap/02;
Cirkovic AJP(03)feb-ap/02 [eschatology];
Dabrowski AdP(06)ap-in;
Page PRD(08)ht/06 [future
decay]; Krauss & Starkman ap/07 [WIMP
annihilation]; Carlip JCAP(07)ht [and
variation of constants]; Krauss & Scherrer GRG(07)-a0704-GRF
[return of static universe], PRD(07)
+ sr(07)apr
[matter domination].
@ And dark energy: Huterer et al PRD(02)ap;
Kallosh et al PRD(02)
[supergravity model]; Loeb PRD(02)ap/01;
Adams et al IJMPD(03)ap [island
universes]; Kallosh & Linde
JCAP(03);
Page JKPS(06)ht/05 [lower
limit 26 Gyr, upper lim e^{1050}–1060 yr]; > s.a. dark
energy.
@ Big rip: Caldwell et al PRL(03)ap;
González-Díaz
PRD(03)ap,
PLB(04)ap/03,
PLB(06);
Frampton & Takahashi APP(04)ap,
Frampton ap/04-in
[no dark energy]; Barboza & Lemos GRG(06)gq [and
quantum gravity]; > s.a. Phantom
Field.
@ Big crunch / smash: Faraoni PRD(03)gq [superquintessence].
General References > s.a. brane
cosmology; cosmological
history; history
of models;
cosmological models.
@ Articles, I: Rees SA(99)dec; issue SA(01)jan; Starkman & Schwarz
SA(05)aug [discrepancies]; Kamionkowski a0706-in.
@ Status, reviews: Turner ap/97-in,
NPPS(97)ap;
Silk ap/99-in;
Rees ap/99-in;
Ellis GRG(00);
Narlikar & Padmanabhan ARAA(01);
Turner ap/02-in, ap/02-in;
Hawking ap/03-in;
Peebles
ap/03-in;
Primack NAR(05)ap/04-in;
Maroto & Ramírez ap/04-in;
Lesgourges ap/04-ln;
García-Bellido hp/04-in,
ap/05-ln;
Fabris gq/04-ln;
Padmanabhan gq/05-in,
AIP(06)ap;
Linder JPCS(06)ap/05;
Brandenberger PoS-ht/07;
Zee MPLA(07);
Kolb a0709-in;
Primack NPPS(07);
Efstathiou NCB(07)-a0712-in
[future]; Peebles a0712-in;
Giovannini 08;
Turner PT(08)dec;
Blanchet a0902;
Martinez & Trimble a0904-in;
Vilenkin a0908-in
[inflation and multiverse]; Starkman et al a0909 [observational status].
@ Non-specialist intros: PW(96)sep; Gleiser IJMPD(04)ap-in; Elizalde gq/04; Roos a0802-in.
@ Books, I: Merleau-Ponty & Morando 71; Calder 77; Durham & Purrington
83; Trefil 83; Pagels 85; Gratton 87; Gribbin 88; Fang & Li 89; Chaisson
90; Singer ed-90; Lightman 91; Hetherington ed-93; Rowan-Robinson 93, 99; Silk
94; Lemonick
95; Mather & Boslough
96; Hogan 98; Delsemme 98 [including life]; Padmanabhan 98; Schulman 99; Harrison
00; Rees 00; Lidsey 00; Gribbin 01 [astronomy/cosmology, coffee table]; Kirshner
02; Rees 03;
Singh
04;
Silk 06; Glendenning
07;
Gribbin 07 [r pw(07)jun];
Luminet 08; Duncan & Tyler 80 [text].
@ II: Contopoulos & Kotsakis 87; Roos 94; Silk 94; Linder 97; Bernstein
98; Liddle 99; Livio 00 [acceleration and cosmological constant]; Raine & Thomas
01; Ryden 03; Dolgov hp/03-in;
Glendenning 04;
Hawley & Holcomb 05; Sidharth 09.
@ II, from Newtonian theory: Norbury
EJP(98)phy;
Jordan AJP(05)jul-ap/03.
@ III: Peebles 71; Hoyle 75; Rees 95; Lukash ap/00-in;
Cotsakis & Leach LNP(02)gq/01;
Rich 01; Narlikar 02; Padmanabhan 02;
Kinney
ap/03-ln
[and inflation]; Freedman & Turner RMP(03)ap;
Sakharov & Hofer ETH(03)ap [rev];
Dodelson 03; Trodden & Carroll ap/04-ln;
Khlopov & Rubin 04; Gonzalo 05;
Mukhanov 05; Weinberg 08.
@ Problems: Bolotin et al a0904.
@ And philosophy, etc: Leslie ed-90; Munitz 90 [I]; Grünbaum PhSc(93)dec
[origination], FP(96), BJPS(00)
[theology]; Zinkernagel SHPMP(02)ap/01 [unity
of science]; Klee BJPS(02)
[argument by design]; Kragh 04 [religious
thought]; Ellis
ap/06-in
[issues]; Grujic FS(07)-a0709 [epistemic
questions]; > s.a. history of
relativistic physics [sociology], inflation, quantum
cosmology.
@ Conceptual: Ribeiro & Videira Ap(98)phy [dogmatism];
Wahsner IJMPA(02)
[on the universe as a system]; Zinkernagel SHPMP(02)
[and particle physics]; Mbonye gq/03 [self-regulating
dynamics]; Coule GRG(04)
[issues re infinite space]; McCabe SHPMP(04)gq/05 [structure
of general-relativistic cosmology], SHPMP(05)gq/05 [creation];
Baryshev AIP(06)ap/05
[conceptual problems...???]; Horvath a0809 [dark
matter, dark energy, and paradigm shift]; Börner GRG(09)
[and fundamental physics]; Hogg a0910 [certainty
and plausibility]; Goenner a0910/AdP
[what kind of science?].
Online Resources > see Internet Encyclopedia of Science pages; Discover 2007 interview with Janna Levin.
What caused the Big Bang? God divided by zero.
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