天文學(xué)前沿

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　　在這本極具可讀性的書中，來自全世界天文學(xué)領(lǐng)域的首席科學(xué)家們給出了其研究進(jìn)展的一般看法，講述了各自的前沿研究，并提出了他們關(guān)于未來的設(shè)想。書中的文章主要選自世界上歷史最悠久的科技期刊——皇家學(xué)會(huì)哲學(xué)學(xué)報(bào)的特刊，只不過在這里是以一種更口語化的語言呈現(xiàn)給廣大讀者。期刊編輯對文章進(jìn)行了嚴(yán)格精選，涵蓋了宇宙大爆炸的起源、恒星和星系的演化及形成、冷暗物質(zhì)、突增的太陽黑子事件以及人類對太陽系的探索。通過該書，讀者可以與作者一起分享他們在天文學(xué)前沿工作的興奮和熱情。
　　對于初入門或正想進(jìn)入這些研究領(lǐng)域的青年學(xué)者來說，《天文學(xué)前沿:從大爆炸到太陽系(英文版)》不僅可以豐富他們的專業(yè)知識、擴(kuò)展他們的視野，更可以為他們選擇適合于自己興趣的研究方向提供幫助。而對于大學(xué)生和那些對這些領(lǐng)域的知識和發(fā)展方向有興趣的一般讀者來說，閱讀這些書，既可以增進(jìn)他們的科學(xué)知識，也可以助其了解這些領(lǐng)域的發(fā)展方向。

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編者：(英國）J.M.T.湯普森

書籍目錄

Foreword
Preface
Cosmology and the Big Bang
1. Thirteen Billion Years in Half an Hour
2. The Paradigm of Inflation
3. Cosmology with Varying Constants
4. Small Scales, Big Issues for Cold Dark Matter
5. Violence and Black Holes in the Hearts of Galaxies Probing the
Universe
6. First Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
Results: Implications for Cosmology and Inflation
7. Quest for Gravitational Waves
8. Strong-Field Tests of Relativistic Gravity with Pulsars
9. Gamma-Ray Bursts as Cosmological Probes
10. New Radio Interferometers and Data Access: Investigations of
Star Formation
Stars and Conditions for Life
11. Gamma-Ray Bursts
12. Astrophysical Dust
13. The Astrophysics of Crowded Places
14. Astrochemistry: From Molecular Clouds to Planetary
Systems
15. Extrasolar Planets
Solar System and Climate Change
16. Our Solar System
17. Planetary Upper Atmospheres
18. The Solar Dynamo
19. Explosions on the Sun
20. Solar Variability, Coupling between Atmospheric Layers and Neil
Arnold
Index

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版權(quán)頁：插圖：Quantum effects become crucial any time we ask a question which in-volves lengths scales comparable to or smaller than that of an atom. Thequantum realm is a strange one indeed, divorced from everyday intuitionand common sense. In it, balls can pass straight through walls and a catcan be both dead and alive at the same time.Remarkably, the theorems proven by Hawking and Penrose show thatEinstein's theory very likely breaks down at some point because the typicallength scales for the Universe become smaller than the size of an atom, andso quantum effects must be included. At the same time we cannot ignoregravity because near the Big Bang gravity becomes extremely strong. As aresult, the combined theory we are searching for - the holy grail of modernfundamental physics - is known as quantum gravity.Whether or not quantum effects can smooth out and make finite theinfinity density and temperature of the Big Bang is not known. Indeed itis one of the biggest unanswered questions in cosmology. Most researchers,perhaps, believe that they will - and hence that the cosmos may be mucholder than our current best estimate of thirteen billion years. But withouta complete theory of quantum gravity we find only tantalizing hints.

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《天文學(xué)前沿:從大爆炸到太陽系(英文版)》是英國皇家會(huì)前沿科技叢書之一。

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