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The Weight of the Vacuum: A Scientific History of Dark Energy (SpringerBriefs in Physics)
The Weight of the Vacuum A Scientific History of Dark Energy - SpringerBriefs in Physics
Author: Helge S. Kragh, James M. Overduin
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-p...  more »
ISBN-13: 9783642550898
ISBN-10: 3642550894
Publication Date: 6/30/2014
Pages: 113
Edition: 2014
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