Inner space/outer space : the interface between cosmology and particle physics / edited by Edward W. Kolb ... [et al.]

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardback. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 638 pages; Description: xii, 638 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Subjects: Cosmology --Congresses. Astrophysics --Congresses. Particles (Nuclear physics) --Congresses. Series: Theoretical astrophysics. Notes: Proceedings of a conference hosted at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in May 1984. Includes bibliographies.Summary: Inner Space/Outer Space brings together much of the exciting work contributing to a new synthesis of modern physics. Particle physicists, concerned with the ""inner space"" of the atom, are making discoveries that their colleagues in astrophysics, studying outer space, can use to develop and test hypotheses about the events that occurred in the microseconds after the Big Bang and that shaped the universe as we know it today. The papers collected here, from scores of scientists, constitute the proceedings of the first major international conference on research at the interface of particle physics and astrophysics, held in May 1984. The editors have written introductions to each major section that draw out the central themes and elaborate on the primary implications of the papers that follow.