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Deconstructing Cosmology
Author: Sanders Robert H.
A critical assessment of the standard cosmological model and its main challenger, modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND).
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Publication date: 09-2016
152 p. · 17.8x25.2 cm · Hardback
152 p. · 17.8x25.2 cm · Hardback
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The advent of sensitive high-resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background radiation and their successful interpretation in terms of the standard cosmological model has led to great confidence in this model's reality. The prevailing attitude is that we now understand the Universe and need only work out the details. In this book, Sanders traces the development and successes of Lambda-CDM, and argues that this triumphalism may be premature. The model's two major components, dark energy and dark matter, have the character of the pre-twentieth-century luminiferous aether. While there is astronomical evidence for these hypothetical fluids, their enigmatic properties call into question our assumptions of the universality of locally determined physical law. Sanders explains how modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) is a significant challenge for cold dark matter. Overall, the message is hopeful: the field of cosmology has not become frozen, and there is much fundamental work ahead for tomorrow's cosmologists.
1. Creation mythology; 2. Three predictions of physical cosmology; 3. The very early Universe: inflation; 4. Precision cosmology; 5. The concordance model; 6. Dark energy; 7. Dark matter; 8. MOND; 9. Dark matter, MOND and cosmology; 10. Plato's cave revisited; Notes; Index.
Robert H. Sanders is Professor Emeritus at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He received his PhD in Astrophysics from Princeton University under the supervision of Lyman Spitzer. After working at Columbia University and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, he moved to Europe. He spent his career studying active galactic nuclei (in particular, the Galactic Center), on the hydrodynamics of gas in galaxies and, for several decades, on the problem of the 'missing mass' in astronomical systems. His previous books are The Dark Matter Problem: A Historical Perspective (2010) and Revealing the Heart of the Galaxy: The Milky Way and Its Black Hole (2013).
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