SCC - 4 | The Science of Interstellar by Kip Thorne, Christopher Nolan

A journey through the otherworldly science behind Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film, Interstellar, from executive producer and theoretical physicist Kip Thorne.

Interstellar, from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science of Interstellar, Kip Thorne, the physicist who assisted Nolan on the scientific aspects of Interstellar, shows us that the movie’s jaw-dropping events and stunning, never-before-attempted visuals are grounded in real science.

Thorne shares his experiences working as the science adviser on the film and then moves on to the science itself. In chapters on wormholes, black holes, interstellar travel, and much more, Thorne’s scientific insights—many of them triggered during the actual scripting and shooting of Interstellar — describe the physical laws that govern our universe and the truly astounding phenomena that those laws make possible.

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SCC - 6 | The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World by Sean Carroll

It was the universe’s most elusive particle, the linchpin for everything scientists dreamed up to explain how physics works. It had to be found. But projects as big as CERN’s Large Hadron Collider don’t happen without incredible risks – and occasional skullduggery.

In the definitive account of this landmark event, Caltech physicist and acclaimed science writer Sean Carroll reveals the insights, rivalry, and wonder that fuelled the Higgs discovery, and takes us on a riveting and irresistible ride to the very edge of physics today.

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* U OBRADI - The General Theory of Relativity: A Mathematical Approach by Farook Rahaman

The book aims to expound the general theory of relativity with a mathematical point of view.

Catering to the needs of postgraduate students and researchers in the field of astrophysics and mathematical physics, it offers the readers a comprehensive understanding of the advanced topics of the subject matter.

It specifically discusses the mathematical foundation of tensor calculus, gives a background of geodesics, Einstein's field equations, linearised gravity, spacetime of spherically symmetric distribution of matter and black holes, and particle and photon orbits in spacetime.

Apart from the formulation of general relativity, Lie derivatives and its applications, and causality of spacetime are also discussed in detail.
Certain preliminary concepts of extrinsic curvature, Lagrangian formalism of general theory of relativity and 3 + 1 decomposition of space-time are covered and are provided in the book as appendices.

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* U OBRADI - The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll

Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary intellect to bear not only on Higgs bosons and extra dimensions but now also on our deepest personal questions. Where are we? Who are we? Are our emotions, our beliefs, and our hopes and dreams ultimately meaningless out there in the void? Does human purpose and meaning fit into a scientific worldview?

In short chapters filled with intriguing historical anecdotes, personal asides, and rigorous exposition, readers learn the difference between how the world works at the quantum level, the cosmic level, and the human level--and then how each connects to the other. Carroll's presentation of the principles that have guided the scientific revolution from Darwin and Einstein to the origins of life, consciousness, and the universe is dazzlingly unique.

Carroll shows how an avalanche of discoveries in the past few hundred years has changed our world and what really matters to us. Our lives are dwarfed like never before by the immensity of space and time, but they are redeemed by our capacity to comprehend it and give it meaning.

The Big Picture is an unprecedented scientific worldview, a tour de force that will sit on shelves alongside the works of Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Daniel Dennett, and E. O. Wilson for years to come.

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* U OBRADI - Relativity: A Journey Through Warped Space and Time by Daniel R. Mayerson, Anthony M. Charles, Joseph E. Golec

This primer brilliantly exposes concepts related to special and general relativity for the absolute beginner. It can be used either as an introduction to the subject at a high school level or as a useful compass for undergraduates who want to move the first steps towards Einstein's theories.
The book is enhanced throughout with many useful exercises and beautiful illustrations to aid understanding.
The topics covered include:
Lorentz transformations,
length contraction and time dilation,
the twin paradox (and other paradoxes),
Minkowski spacetime,
the Einstein equivalence principle,
curvature of space and spacetime,
geodesics,
parallel transport,
Einstein’s equations of general relativity,
black holes, wormholes, cosmology, gravitational waves, time machines,
and much more.

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* U OBRADI - Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time by Sean Carroll

Time rules our lives. From the rising and setting of the sun to the cycles of nature, the thought processes in our brains, and the biorhythms in our day, nothing so pervades our existence and yet is so difficult to explain. Time seems to be woven into the very fabric of the universe. But why?

Consider these contrasting views of time: A movie of a person diving into a pool has an obvious arrow of time. When the movie is played backward, everyone recognizes that it shows an event that would never occur in the real world. But zoom in on any part of this scene at the atomic scale and the movie can be run backward or forward and be indistinguishable. Either way, the particle interactions are consistent with the laws of physics.

Why does one movie have an arrow of time moving in only one direction and the other does not? Surprisingly, the search for an answer leads through some of the most pioneering fields of physics, including thermodynamics, relativity, quantum theory, and cosmology.

The key concept is called "entropy," which is related to the second law of thermodynamics, considered by many scientists to be the most secure law in all of physics. But that's only the beginning, since the quest for the ultimate theory of time draws on such exciting ideas as black holes, cosmic inflation, and dark energy, before closing in on a momentous question that until recently was considered unanswerable: What happened before the big bang?

In 24 riveting half-hour lectures, Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time takes you on a mind-expanding journey through the past, present, and future, guided by Professor Sean Carroll, noted author and Senior Research Associate in Physics at the California Institute of Technology.

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* U OBRADI - Modern Classical Physics: Optics, Fluids, Plasmas, Elasticity, Relativity, and Statistical Physics by Kip S. Thorne, Roger D. Blandford

A groundbreaking text and reference book on twenty-first-century classical physics and its applications.

This first-year graduate-level text and reference book covers the fundamental concepts and twenty-first-century applications of six major areas of classical physics that every masters- or PhD-level physicist should be exposed to, but often isn't:
statistical physics,
optics (waves of all sorts),
elastodynamics,
fluid mechanics,
plasma physics,
and special and general relativity and cosmology.

Growing out of a full-year course that the eminent researchers Kip Thorne and Roger Blandford taught at Caltech for almost three decades, this book is designed to broaden the training of physicists. Its six main topical sections are also designed so they can be used in separate courses, and the book provides an invaluable reference for researchers.

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* U OBRADI - Making Starships and Stargates: The Science of Interstellar Transport and Absurdly Benign Wormholes by James F. Woodward

To create the exotic materials and technologies needed to make stargates and warp drives is the holy grail of advanced propulsion. A less ambitious, but nonetheless revolutionary, goal is finding a way to accelerate a spaceship without having to lug along a gargantuan reservoir of fuel that you blow out a tailpipe. Tethers and solar sails are conventional realizations of the basic idea.

There may now be a way to achieve these lofty objectives. Making Starships and Stargates will have three parts.
The first will deal with information about the theories of relativity needed to understand the predictions of the effects that make possible the propulsion techniques, and an explanation of those techniques.
The second will deal with experimental investigations into the feasibility of the predicted effects; that is, do the effects exist and can they be applied to propulsion? The third part of the book the most speculative will examine the question: what physics is needed if we are to make wormholes and warp drives? Is such physics plausible? And how might we go about actually building such devices?

This book pulls all of that material together from various sources, updates and revises it, and presents it in a coherent form so that those interested will be able to find everything of relevance all in one place.

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* U OBRADI - Introduction to Particle and Astroparticle Physics by Alessandro de Angelis, Mario Pimenta

This book introduces particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology.

Starting from an experimental perspective, it provides a unified view of these fields that reflects the very rapid advances being made. This new edition has a number of improvements and has been updated to describe the recent discovery of gravitational waves and astrophysical neutrinos, which started the new era of multimessenger astrophysics; it also includes new results on the Higgs particle.

Astroparticle and particle physics share a common problem: we still don't have a description of the main ingredients of the Universe from the point of view of its energy budget.
Addressing these fascinating issues, and offering a balanced introduction to particle and astroparticle physics that requires only a basic understanding of quantum and classical physics, this book is a valuable resource, particularly for advanced undergraduate students and for those embarking on graduate courses.

It includes exercises that offer readers practical insights can be used equally well as a self-study book, a reference and a textbook.

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* U OBRADI - Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity (FIAS Interdisciplinary Science Series) by Sabine Hossenfelder

This book summarizes recent developments in the research area of quantum gravity phenomenology. A series of short and nontechnical essays lays out the prospects of various experimental possibilities and their current status.

Finding observational evidence for the quantization of space-time was long thought impossible. In the last decade however, new experimental design and technological advances have changed the research landscape and opened new perspectives on quantum gravity.
Formerly dominated by purely theoretical constructions, quantum gravity now has a lively phenomenology to offer. From high precision measurements using macroscopic quantum oscillators to new analysis methods of the cosmic microwave background, no stone is being left unturned in the experimental search for quantum gravity.

This book sheds new light on the connection of astroparticle physics with the quantum gravity problem.
Gravitational waves and their detection are covered.
It illustrates findings from the interconnection between general relativity, black holes and Planck stars.
Finally, the return on investment in quantum-gravitation research is illuminated.

The book is intended for graduate students and researchers entering the field.

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* U OBRADI - The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People by Neil Shubin

In The Universe Within, with his trademark clarity and exuberance, Shubin takes an even more expansive approach to the question of why we look the way we do.
Starting once again with fossils, he turns his gaze skyward, showing us how the entirety of the universe’s fourteen-billion-year history can be seen in our bodies.

As he moves from our very molecular composition (a result of stellar events at the origin of our solar system) through the workings of our eyes, Shubin makes clear how the evolution of the cosmos has profoundly marked our own bodies.

Fully illustrated with black and white drawings.

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* U OBRADI - Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking was recognized as one of the greatest minds of our time and a figure of inspiration after defying his ALS diagnosis at age twenty-one.
He is known for both his breakthroughs in theoretical physics as well as his ability to make complex concepts accessible for all, and was beloved for his mischievous sense of humor. At the time of his death, Hawking was working on a final project: a book compiling his answers to the "big" questions that he was so often posed--questions that ranged beyond his academic field.

Within these pages, he provides his personal views on our biggest challenges as a human race, and where we, as a planet, are heading next. Each section will be introduced by a leading thinker offering his or her own insight into Professor Hawking's contribution to our understanding.

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SCIO - 103/1 | Gravity, a Geometrical Course, Vol 1: Development of the Theory and Basic Physical Applications by Pietro Giuseppe Frè

‘Gravity, a Geometrical Course’ presents general relativity (GR) in a systematic and exhaustive way, covering three aspects that are homogenized into a single texture:

i) the mathematical, geometrical foundations, exposed in a self consistent contemporary formalism,

ii) the main physical, astrophysical and cosmological applications, updated to the issues of contemporary research and observations, with glimpses on supergravity and superstring theory,

iii) the historical development of scientific ideas underlying both the birth of general relativity and its subsequent evolution. The book, divided in two volumes, is a rich resource for graduate students and those who wish to gain a deep knowledge of the subject without an instructor.

Volume One is dedicated to the development of the theory and basic physical applications.
It guides the reader from the foundation of special relativity to Einstein field equations, illustrating some basic applications in astrophysics.

A detailed account of the historical and conceptual development of the theory is combined with the presentation of its mathematical foundations. Differentiable manifolds, fibre-bundles, differential forms, and the theory of connections are covered, with a sketchy introduction to homology and cohomology. (Pseudo)-Riemannian geometry is presented both in the metric and in the vielbein approach.

Physical applications include the motions in a Schwarzschild field leading to the classical tests of GR (light-ray bending and periastron advance) discussion of relativistic stellar equilibrium, white dwarfs, Chandrasekhar mass limit and polytropes. An entire chapter is devoted to tests of GR and to the indirect evidence of gravitational wave emission. The formal structure of gravitational theory is at all stages compared with that of non gravitational gauge theories, as a preparation to its modern extension, namely supergravity, discussed in the second volume.

Pietro Frè is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Torino, Italy and is currently serving as Scientific Counsellor of the Italian Embassy in Moscow. His scientific passion lies in supergravity and all allied topics, since the inception of the field, in 1976. He was professor at SISSA, worked in the USA and at CERN. He has taught General Relativity for 15 years. He has previously two scientific monographs, “Supergravity and Superstrings” and “The N=2 Wonderland”, He is also the author of a popular science book on cosmology and two novels, in Italian.

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SCIO - 103/2 | Gravity, a Geometrical Course, Vol 2: Black Holes, Cosmology and Introduction to Supergravity by Pietro Giuseppe Frè

‘Gravity, a Geometrical Course’ presents general relativity (GR) in a systematic and exhaustive way, covering three aspects that are homogenized into a single texture:

i) the mathematical, geometrical foundations, exposed in a self consistent contemporary formalism,

ii) the main physical, astrophysical and cosmological applications, updated to the issues of contemporary research and observations, with glimpses on supergravity and superstring theory,

iii) the historical development of scientific ideas underlying both the birth of general relativity and its subsequent evolution.

The book is divided in two volumes.
Volume Two is covers black holes, cosmology and an introduction to supergravity.
The aim of this volume is two-fold. It completes the presentation of GR and it introduces the reader to theory of gravitation beyond GR, which is supergravity.

Starting with a short history of the black hole concept, the book covers the Kruskal extension of the Schwarzschild metric, the causal structures of Lorentzian manifolds, Penrose diagrams and a detailed analysis of the Kerr-Newman metric.

An extensive historical account of the development of modern cosmology is followed by a detailed presentation of its mathematical structure, including non-isotropic cosmologies and billiards, de Sitter space and inflationary scenarios, perturbation theory and anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The last three chapters deal with the mathematical and conceptual foundations of supergravity in the frame of free differential algebras.

Branes are presented both as classical solutions of the bulk theory and as world-volume gauge theories with particular emphasis on the geometrical interpretation of kappa-supersymmetry. The rich bestiary of special geometries underlying supergravity lagrangians is presented, followed by a chapter providing glances on the equally rich collection of special solutions of supergravity.

Pietro Frè is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Torino, Italy and is currently serving as Scientific Counsellor of the Italian Embassy in Moscow. His scientific passion lies in supergravity and all allied topics, since the inception of the field, in 1976. He was professor at SISSA, worked in the USA and at CERN. He has taught General Relativity for 15 years. He has previously two scientific monographs, “Supergravity and Superstrings” and “The N=2 Wonderland”, He is also the author of a popular science book on cosmology and two novels, in Italian.

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SC - 805 | Theory of Relativity

Theory of Relativity by Fayyazuddin (Author), Riazuddin (Author), Muhammad Jamil Aslam (Author)

This volume is to facilitate undergraduate and graduate students in theory of relativity and help them in their studies of High Energy Physics and Cosmology. The presentation has been kept simple and sufficient details have been provided in order to facilitate the understanding of the subject. The problems have also been selected to clarify the presentation and solutions of selected problems are given for better understanding of the contents.

2015 | ISBN: 9814641898 | ID: SC - 805

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SC - 825 | Black Holes

Black Holes: The Weird Science of the Most Mysterious Objects in the Universe by Sara Latta (Author)

In 2015 two powerful telescopes detected something physicists had been seeking for more than one hundred years-gravitational waves from the collision of two black holes. This announcement thrilled the scientific community.

Since the eighteenth century, astronomers have predicted the existence of massive, invisible stars whose gravity would not let anything-even light-escape. In the twenty-first century, sophisticated technologies are bringing us closer to seeing black holes in action. Meet the scientists who first thought of black holes hundreds of years ago, and learn about contemporary astrophysicists whose work is radically shaping how we understand black holes, our universe, and how it originated.

2018 | ISBN 9781512415681 | ISBN 9781512448634 | ID: SC - 825

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SC - 837 | Subatomic Physics

Subatomic Physics (3rd Edition) by Ernest M. Henley (Author), Alejandro Garcia (Author)

This is the third and fully updated edition of the classic textbook on physics at the subatomic level. An up-to-date and lucid introduction to both particle and nuclear physics, the book is suitable for both experimental and theoretical physics students at the senior undergraduate and beginning graduate levels.

Topics are introduced with key experiments and their background, encouraging students to think and empowering them with the capability of doing back-of-the-envelope calculations in a diversity of situations. Earlier important experiments and concepts as well as topics of current interest are covered, with extensive use of photographs and figures to convey principal concepts and show experimental data. This modern edition makes use of Lagrangians rather than Hamiltonians (where appropriate) and greater use of relativistic notations. The coverage includes new material on: detectors and accelerators; nucleon elastic form factor data; neutrinos, their masses and oscillations; chiral theories and effective field theories, and lattice QCD; relativistic heavy ions (RHIC); nuclear structure far from the region of stability; and particle astrophysics and cosmology.

2007 | ISBN: 9812700560 | ID: SC - 837

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SC - 846 | Fundamentals of Cosmic Particle Physics

This current updated and expanded text reflects the large number of scientific advances, both theoretically and experimentally, within the discipline of cosmoparticle physics in the last 10 years. Some of the topics that have been added, updated include but are not limited to; HND or CMD+HND scenarios being implemented into sterile neutrino scenarios, the ramifications of extending the forms of dark matter with respect to our view of neutrinos, the origin of baryon matter and the need for non-baryonic matter in current theories, ...

problems the existence of dark matters raises with respect to cosmoparticle physics and the relationship with (meta) stable (super) weakly interacting particles predicted by the extension of the standard model, restrictions on baryon and lepton photons, as well as problems associated with cosmological expansion just to name a few.

2012 | ISBN: 1907343482 | ID: SC - 846

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SC - 854 | Neutron Stars: Physics, Properties and Dynamics

Neutron Stars: Physics, Properties and Dynamics (Physics Research and Technology) by Nurgali Takibayev (Editor), Kuantay Boshkayev (Editor)

Neutron stars, being the objects of close attention and research interest of physicists and astronomers, are the sources of strictly periodic pulsed radiation. Every neutron star has its own unique characteristics; in particular, a frequency of pulses, radiation spectrum and intensity, glitches and pauses, and all of this together raises many questions:

- what is the mechanism of such a behavior;
- what is the origine of such differences;
- what is the physics of these phenomena in general and what is the dynamics of the processes in individual manifestations;
- what changes can emerge in the properties of matter under the extreme conditions that are specific to neutron stars, etc.

The investigation of some of these issues is one of the objectives of this book, which has the form of a collection of studies on the physics of neutron stars. Among them, some researches are devoted to the influence of external fields on the properties of neutron stars, and reactions and transformation of the matter in its envelopes and interior layers.

Contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1 From Nuclei to Neutron Stars
Chapter 2 Uniformly Rotating Neutron Stars
Chapter 3 Quadrupolar Metrics
Chapter 4 Physics of the Neutron Star Envelopes
Chapter 5 Neutron Resonances in the Neutron Star Envelopes
Chapter 6 Nuclear Cluster Dynamics in Nucleo-Synthesis in Neutron Stars
Chapter 7 Strange Dibaryonic and Tribaryonic Clusters
About the Editors
Index

2017 | ISBN: 9781536105070 | ID: SC - 854

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SC - 855 | The Universe Rotation: Pro and Contra

The Universe Rotation: Pro and Contra (Space Science, Exploration and Policies) by Myrzakulov Ratbay (Editor)

An international team of researchers at the initiative of Professor L.M. Chechin has ventured for the first time to prepare a special monograph on the Universe rotation problem. In it this problem is present in a sufficiently wide context, and includes the reasoning in the observational and theoretical aspects.

Observational base primarily relate to trends on the rotational moments of galaxies alignment along a certain direction.

Theoretical bases include vacuum concept model of the Universe and some of its closest generalizations as anisotropic models of Bianchi type, models with torsion, as well as the new quantum-mechanical model of the Universe.

The issue about rotates of our Universe or not, is not only the subject of modern cosmology, but also of modern scientific worldview. Indeed, if the Universe does not rotate, it must be preserve the classical Newton-Copernican view of the world - the Universe is homogeneous, isotropic, static and deanthropomorphic. The modern standard cosmological model based on the principles of general relativity theory, made a significant step towards the generalization of the classical model - it overcame her deanthropomorphic and static nature, but preserved the Universe homogeneous and isotropic.

It is obvious that further generalization should concern the development of non-homogeneous and anisotropic models. Indeed, one of the most important trends of modern cosmology is the refusal from the isotropic Universe model. Among the various physical causes of anisotropy, as we believe, is the rotation of the Universe. So working out of the rotating Universe models becomes a necessary stage in the development of modern cosmology.

Concerning issue of the Universe rotation, and understanding the ambiguous today's answers on it we present two opposing views - pro and contra. The deal is that both of them have the deep philosophical base. For example, if the Universe does not rotate, then why observational data indicate a violation of the cosmological principle? If the Universe rotates, then it rotates relative to what - vacuum, other universes; how does the axis of rotation oriented in the space, etc.

2017 | ISBN: 1536105082 | ID: SC - 855

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