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Ultimate Horizons

Part of the The Frontiers Collection Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-41657-6

ISBN: 978-3-642-41656-9

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg - Springer Journals

Feb 5, 2014

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Chapter 1Horizons

Satz, Helmut

Pages: 1 –17

[We live in a finite world. Even from the highest mountain or from an airplane, our view always ends at a horizon, beyond which we cannot see. Moreover, horizons are elusive. We see them, we’re surrounded by them, we try to reach them, and when we get “there”, they have moved to somewhere else....
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Chapter 2The Vanishing Stars

Satz, Helmut

Pages: 19 –41

[In spite of Giordano Bruno’s fate, the limits of the universe continued to occupy the minds of many scientists and philosophers. Is there indeed some ultimate celestial sphere? And if so, what is in that forbidden “room” beyond it? The existence of a final firmament, to which the fixed stars are...
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Chapter 3The Secret Glow of Black Holes

Satz, Helmut

Pages: 43 –57

[There are many curious things in our universe, but black holes must be among the most curious. You cannot see them, you cannot hear them, you cannot feel them, and if you ever meet one, you won’t be able to tell anyone about it afterwards. In fact, there will be no afterwards for you. So a black...
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Chapter 4The Visions of an Accelerating Observer

Satz, Helmut

Pages: 59 –70

[One of the basic features of any body is its weight—and already the earliest civilizations had means to determine that. The oldest scales were found in Egyptian tombs and are more than five thousand years old. Lifting objects up from the surface of the Earth required a different amount of force...
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Chapter 5The Smallest Possible Thing

Satz, Helmut

Pages: 71 –101

[The Greeks called them “atomos”, indivisible. The idea that all matter should consist of discrete, similar, smallest units is magnificent in both ways. It implies that the complexity we see around us can be reduced to an underlying simplicity, and it implies as well that the immense complexity...
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Chapter 6Quark Matter

Satz, Helmut

Pages: 103 –124

[Shortly after the Big Bang, the world was very different. Today, after fourteen billion years of expansion, our universe is on the average rather empty. There are vast interstellar spaces devoid of anything, and, once in a while, a few stars, a galaxy, or even a cluster of galaxies; then again,...
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Chapter 7Hidden Symmetries

Satz, Helmut

Pages: 125 –146

[Tracing back the evolution of the universe closer and closer to the Big Bang, we have encountered the confinement horizon, the threshold at which the quarks were combined to form physical hadrons, at which the physical vacuum first appeared, at which empty space entered the stage.]
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Chapter 8The Last Veil

Satz, Helmut

Pages: 147 –159

[So indeed the world we can call ours appears to be finite. Most of the universe remains forever beyond human reach, inaccessible to our probing both in space and in time—as far as we can tell, based on the science of today. But as we have also seen, every horizon inevitably raises the question...

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