{"product_id":"gravity-strings-and-particles-maurizio-gasperini-9783319005980","title":"Gravity, Strings and Particles: A Journey Into the Unknown","description":"\u003cp\u003ePreface.- Prologue: inside the energy walls of our cradle.- Gravity at small distances.- New fundamental forces of Nature?.- The graviphoton and the dilaton.- Chamaleons and fat gravitons.- New dimensions of space?.- The compact scenario.- The Kaluza-Klein towers and the radion.- A spontaneous compactification.- The brane-world scenario.- The geometric confinement of gravity.- Gravity at large distances.- Extra dimensions strike back.- A new form of dark energy?.- The cosmic quintessence.- The fluctuations of the vacuum energy.- Space, time and space-time.- Maybe the past can change?.- Time and memory.- Time: an intrinsic property of all bodies?.- Maybe space-time is not unique?.- Relative singularities.- Strings and fundamental interactions.- How to quantize extended objects.- Supersymmetry and higher-dimensional spaces.- The five superstrings.- Type IIA and type IIB superstrings.- Type I superstrings.- The two heterotic superstrings.- Conformal invariance and equations of motion.-The dilaton and the topological expansion.- A new symmetry: duality.- Winding strings and large dimensions.- The very early past of our Universe.- String cosmology.- Brane cosmology.- The ekpyrotic scenario.- Brane-antibrane inflation.- Signals from epochs before the Big Bang?.- The cosmic background of relic gravitons.- Conclusion.- References.- Index. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maurizio Gasperini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3319005987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783319005980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/23\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2015 pg. 847","brand":"Maurizio Gasperini","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43983457747199,"sku":"9783319005980","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4ff5673d-4622-4234-b40b-428748f2b3e6.jpg?v=1683266762","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gravity-strings-and-particles-maurizio-gasperini-9783319005980","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}