關(guān)于《英國皇家學(xué)會前沿科技叢書》的一點說明 Foreword Preface Cosmology and the Big Bang 1.Thirteen Billion Years in Half an Hour Bruce A. Bassett 2.The Paradigm of Inflation 3.Cosmology with Varying Constants 4.Small Scales, Big Issues for Cold Dark Matter 5.Violence and Black Holes in the Hearts of Galaxies Probing the Universe 6.First Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Results: Implications for Cosmology and Inflation 7.Quest for Gravitational Waves 8.Strong-Field Tests of Relativistic Gravity with Pulsars 9.Gamma-Ray Bursts as Cosmological Probes Some Remarks on the Time Scales of Magmatic Processes Occurring Beneath Island Arc Volcanoes The Break-Up of Continents and the Generation of Ocean Basins Properties and Evolution of the Earth's Core and Geodynamo Section 3: APPLIED EARTH SCIENCE Giant Catastrophic Landslides Remote Monitoring of the Earthquake Cycle using Satellite Radar Interferometry Human Influence on the Global Geochemical Cycle of Lead Dominik J. Weiss, Malin E. Kylander and Matthew Natural and Artificial Platinum and Palladium Occurrences World-Wide Data Assimilation and Objectively Optimised Earth Observation David J. Lary and Anuradha Koratkar Afterword Bill McGuire Index