Dark matter, dark energy : the dark side of the universe /
There is more to the universe than meets the eye--a lot more. In recent years, scientists have discovered that 95 percent of the contents of the cosmos are invisible to our current methods of direct detection. Yet something is holding galaxies and galaxy clusters together, and something else is ca...
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
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Chantilly, VA :
Teaching Company,
[2007]
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| Series: | Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Disc 1. Lecture 1 Fundamental building blocks ; Lecture 2 Smooth, expanding universe ; Lecture 3 Space, time and gravity ; Lecture 4 Cosmology in Einstein's universe ; Lecture 5 Galaxies and clusters ; Lecture 6 Gravitational lensing
- Disc 2. Lecture 7 Atoms and particles ; Lecture 8 Standard model of particle physics ; Lecture 9 Relic particles from the Big Bang ; Lecture 10 Primordial nucleosynthesis ; Lecture 11 Cosmic microwave background ; Lecture 12 Dark stars and black holes.
- Part 2: Disc 3. Lecture 13 WIMPs and supersymmetry ; Lecture 14 Accelerating universe ; Lecture 15 Geometry of space ; Lecture 16 Smooth tension and acceleration ; Lecture 17 Vacuum energy ; Lecture 18 Quintessence
- Disc 4. Lecture 19. Was Einstein right? ; Lecture 20 Inflation. ; Lecture 21 Strings and extra dimensions ; Lecture 22 Beyond the observable universe ; Lecture 23 Future experiments ; Lecture 24 Past and future of the dark side.