Reviews for Mathematical and Quantum Aspects of Relativity and Cosmology

The average rating for Mathematical and Quantum Aspects of Relativity and Cosmology based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-10-04 00:00:00 Thomas Henry Magnificient. This is a must read. If you were once that kid that looked up to the sky, and asked questions about the origin, about the Earth, about Red giants, and of course, about the sun, well, let me tell you that the little kid inside you will be delighted. Turns out this book should be called "Astrophysics 101". He explains absolutely everything about the Cosmos. Once you get to know about the physics of the stars, you will get to comprehend how scientists were able to measure their masses, their luminosity and consequently, what to do with that. The whole book is amazing, there's nothing dull or completely hard to understand about it, there's just the proper amount of scientific explanations and equations. The book also covers the recents discoveries nof Physics concerning both Dark Energy and Dark Matter, and as it turns out, our actual Universe is made up of more than 70% of Dark Energy. How the hell does everything exist with just a few 4.6% of atoms made up of normal matter? This has to be on my Favorites shelf due to the fact that completely covers the explanations concerning the basis for astrophysics.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-12-20 00:00:00 Randi Kennedy Very good survey of cosmology as it regards the age of the universe. This book does a good job of explaining why cosmologists are so confident that the universe is 13.7 billion years old. Oops, was that a spoiler? The author does a good job of explaining several details that are glossed over in other, poorer tellings of the history of science. For example, I now feel like I understand the reason for the early confusion about the value of the Hubble constant; namely that there are multiple types of Cepheids, and there differences were not appreciated at first.