Description: 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. Prof. James Overduin, Baltimore, MD, USA Prof. Helge Kragh, Aarhus University, Denmark
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EAN: 9783642550898
UPC: 9783642550898
ISBN: 9783642550898
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Book Title: The Weight of the Vacuum: A Scientific History of
Item Length: 23.4 cm
Number of Pages: 113 Pages
Publication Name: The Weight of the Vacuum: a Scientific History of Dark Energy
Language: English
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin AND Heidelberg Gmbh & Co. KG
Item Height: 235 mm
Subject: Science, Physics
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 203 g
Author: Helge S. Kragh, James M. Overduin
Item Width: 155 mm
Series: Springerbriefs in Physics
Format: Paperback
