Large Scale Structure and Motions in the Universe: Proceeding of an International Meeting Held in Trieste, Italy, April 6-9, 1988 (Astrophysics and Space Science Library)

Mezzetti, M., Giuricin, G., Mardirossian, F., Ramella, M. (eds.)

ISBN 10: 0792300823 / ISBN 13: 9780792300823

Verlag: Kluwer Academic, 1988

Beschreibung

*Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, Sept. 1 (holiday Sale Item)* 500 pp., Hardcover, minor soiling to the top and fore edge, else very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ZB1063219

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Large Scale Structure and Motions in the Universe: Proceeding of an International Meeting Held in Trieste, Italy, April 6-9, 1988 (Astrophysics and Space Science Library)
• Verlag: Kluwer Academic
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1988
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0792300823
• ISBN-13: 9780792300823
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

The 1980's have been times of great excitement in Astrophysics and Cosmology. Professors Dennis Sciama and Fabio Mardirossian and all the other Members of the Organizing Committees are to be congratulated for having given us a taste of this excitement in Trieste, by inviting the leaders of the subject to the meeting they have organized. The excitement has corne from the new observations of the three-dimensional structure of the universe through a large number of new measurements of redshifts. These have revealed that clusters of galaxies are distributed on the surface of big empty bubbles of diameters of the order of 20-50 Mpc. Additionally, there is some evidence for invisible dark matter (whose composition is not known) as well as evidence for the gravitational lens effect. To cap this has corne the supernova of 1987, an event which last occurred 383 years ago. For the first time in history, the neutrino flux from the supernova was measured, giving limits to neutrino masses and numbers of neutrino types. (The dark matter problem is related to Particle Physics - beyond this standard model). It is good to be alive when all this happens and to try to comprehend this. Once again, our appreciation to the organisers and to those who presented their beautiful results.