BOOK PRESENTATION
Book Presentation
ADVANCES IN COSMOLOGY
Science - Art - Philosophy
Springer 2022
Editors
Marilena Streit-Bianchi | Paola Catapano | Cristiano Galbiati | Enrico Magnani
November 3rd, 2023, ore 17.00
CERN Library
Geneva, Switzerland
Present will be 2019 Nobel laureate Michel Mayor and Debora Pinna (CMS experiment) with whom (and others) we wrote the book "ADVANCES IN COSMOLOGY | Science - Art - Philosophy" (Springer Ed.).
Paola Catapano will conduct the event.
Cosmology’s journey to the present day has been a long one. This book outlines the latest research on modern cosmology and related topics from world-class experts. Through it, readers will learn how multi-disciplinary approaches and technologies are used to search the unknown and how we arrived at the knowledge used and assumptions made by cosmologists today. The book is organized into four parts, each exploring a theme that has troubled humankind for centuries. Since the dawn of time, looking at the sky, humans have tried to understand their origin, the laws governing it, and what influence it all has on human life. In most ancient civilizations, astronomers embodied the power of knowledge. This knowledge was not compartmentalized, and scientists often found philosophical implications within their quests, many of which destroyed the borders between the natural sciences. Even now, as observers and scientists continue to use conjecture to generate theoretical assumptions and laws that then have to be confirmed experimentally, said theoretical and experimental searches are being linked to philosophical thinking and artistic representation, as they were up until the 18th century. This multi-disciplinary book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the fields of Astronomy, Cosmology or Physics.
