Quantum Cosmology: A Fundamental Description of the Universe

by Martin Bojowald

Book Overview

Consequences of quantum gravity on grander scales are expected to be enormous: only such a theory can show how black holes really behave and where our universe came from. Applications of loop quantum gravity to cosmology have especially by now shed much light on cosmic evolution of a universe in a fundamental, microscopic description. Modern techniques are explained in this book which demonstrate how the universe could have come from a non-singular...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441982752
• ISBN13: 9781441982759
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"