The Weight of the Vacuum

Name: The Weight of the Vacuum
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A Scientific History of Dark Energy

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Springerbriefs in Physics

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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.

Author Biography:

Prof. James Overduin, Baltimore, MD, USA Prof. Helge Kragh, Aarhus University, Denmark

Release date Australia

June 5th, 2014

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Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

23 Illustrations, black and white; VIII, 113 p. 23 illus.

Pages

113

Series

Springerbriefs in Physics

Dimensions

155x235x7

ISBN-13

9783642550898

Product ID

22258278

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