Possible Meteoroid Streams Associated with (69230) Hermes and 2002 SY50 -- Are Asteroid 2003 EH1 and Comet C/1490 Y1 Dynamically Related? -- The Problem of Linking Minor Meteor Showers to Their Parent Bodies: Initial Considerations -- Evolution of the Geminids Observed Over 60 Years -- Advantages of Searching for Asteroids from Low Earth Orbit: The NEOSSat Mission -- Dynamical Relation of Meteo…
Introduction: Reminiscences and Appreciation of a Great Astronomer -- Digging Foundations for the “Royal Road” -- One Fellow’s View of the “Royal Road” -- Reminiscences of a Japanese Contemporary -- RR CrB and Algol — The First and Last Star in Zden?k Kopal’s Life with Binaries -- Atmospheric Eclipses in WR+O Binaries: From Kopal and Shapley to Present Days -- Binary Star Morpholo…
Fresnel’s (Dragging) Coefficient as a Challenge to 19th Century Optics of Moving Bodies -- Poincaré’s Relativistic Theory of Gravitation -- Standing on the Shoulders of a Dwarf: General Relativity—A Triumph of Einstein and Grossmann’s Erroneous Entwurf Theory -- Before the Riemann Tensor: The Emergence of Einstein’s Double Strategy -- A Conjecture on Einstein, the Independent Reality…
The Unification Paradigm -- Standard Models of Physics and Cosmology -- Different Approaches: Quantum Superstrings and Quantum Gravity -- Other Approaches -- Fuzzy Spacetime and the Planck Scale -- The Universe of Fluctuations -- Quantum Geometry -- How Fundamental is Gravitation? -- The Elusive Mass Spectrum -- Experimental Effects.
Statistical Methods -- Uniform and Correlated Mass Density Fields -- The Power Spectrum and the Classification of Stationary Stochastic Fields -- Fractals -- Multifractals and Mass Distributions -- Applications to Cosmology -- Fluctuations in Standard Cosmological Models: A Real Space View -- Discrete Representation of Fluctuations in Cosmological Models -- Galaxy Surveys: An Introduction to Th…
Local Starbursts as Benchmarks for Galaxy Evolution -- Local Starbursts in a Cosmological Context -- Starbursts in the Evolving Universe: A Local Perspective -- Are There Local Analogs of Lyman Break Galaxies? -- The Disk Wolf-Rayet Population of the Nuclear Starburst Galaxy M83 -- Laser Illuminates Compact Galaxies -- First Spectroscopic Results from the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey…
On the Impossibility of Detecting Uniform Motion -- Exploring the Internal Logic of Galileo’s Principle of Relativity -- Relativity in Euclidean Space and in Spacetime -- Relativity and the Dimensionality of the World: Spacetime Is Real -- Quantum Mechanics and the Nature of Spacetime -- The Nature of Spacetime and Validity of Scientific Theories -- Propagation of Light in Non-Inertial Refere…
What Is the Measurement Problem Anyway? Introductory Reflections on Quantum Puzzles -- Radically Quantum: Liberation and Purification from Classical Prejudice -- Quantum Physics as a Science of Information -- Quantum Theory Looks at Time Travel -- What Connects Different Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics? -- Is Quantum Mechanics the Whole Truth? -- Roundtable Discussion I: Physical Theories,…
Planck Scale Kinematics and the Pierre Auger Observatory -- Quantum Gravity -- Introduction to Quantum-Gravity Phenomenology -- Astrophysical Bounds on Planck Suppressed Lorentz Violation -- Introduction to Doubly Special Relativity -- Interferometry as a Universal Tool in Physics -- Inflationary Cosmological Perturbations of Quantum--Mechanical Origin -- CPT Violation and Decoherence in Quantu…
An Introduction to the Physics of the Early Universe -- Cosmological Perturbation Theory -- Cosmic Microwave Backgrond Anisotropies -- Oberservational Cosmology -- Dark Matter and Dark Energy -- String Cosmology -- Brane-World Cosmology -- Gravitational Wave Astronomy: the High Frequency Window -- Computational Black Hole Dynamics.The Physics of the Early Universe is an edited and expanded vers…