Modern Cosmology and the Dark Matter Problem

by Dennis W. Sciama

Book Overview

This book shows how modern cosmology and astronomy have led to the need to introduce dark matter in the universe. Some of this dark matter is in the familiar form of protons, electrons and neutrons, but most of it must have a more exotic form. The favoured, but not the only, possibility is neutrinos of non-zero rest mass, pair-created in the hot big bang and surviving to the present day. After a review of modern cosmology, this book gives a detailed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521438489
• ISBN13: 9780521438483
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"