III. Ecosmos: A Revolutionary Fertile, Habitable, Solar-Bioplanet, Incubator Lifescape

B. Our Whole Scale EcosmoVerse Description Project

Ashtekar, Abhay, et al, eds. General Relativity and Gravitation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. A formidable volume for the 100th anniversary occasion of Albert Einstein’s discovery of these cosmic properties, by senior scientists such as George Ellis, Malcolm MacCallum, Martin Rees, Beverly Berger, Misao Sasaki, and many others. A century later a more global, engendered effort contains Einstein’s Triumph, Gravitational Waves, Gravity is Geometry, and Beyond Einstein sections.

Awwad, Yassir and Tomislav Prokopec. Large-Scale Geometry of the Universe.. arXiv:2211.16893. We cite this entry by Utrecht university physicists among a growing cadre as evidence of how by 2022 an integral Earthumanity survey has become able to theoretically and empirically consider the vast celestial expanse of an entire galactic (e)cosmos. See also, for example, A Three-dimensional Map of the Milky Way by Iwanek Patryk, et al at 2212.00035.

Bahcall, Neta. The Dark Side of the Universe. carnegiescience.edu/events/lectures/dark-side-universe. A Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington public lecture to be given on June 25, 2019 by the esteemed Princeton University astrophysicist. The quote below glimpses the latest views on the whole scale composition of this awesome cosmos, which yet seems readily amenable to our human description.

Of what is the universe made? Not only is most of the matter in the universe dark and unconventional but, surprisingly, the major component of the universe may be "dark energy" — a form of energy that opposes the pull of gravity and causes the universe's expansion to accelerate. By combining recent observations of clusters and large-scale structures, distant supernovae, and the cosmic microwave background radiation, we find evidence for a universe comprised of 5 percent normal atomic matter, 20 percent non-atomic dark matter, and 75 percent "dark energy." The observations suggest a universe that is lightweight. With only 25 percent of its critical mass-density needed to halt the universal expansion, the universe will likely expand forever. Dr. Bahcall will discuss the observations of the dark side of the universe and their implications.

Barack, Leor, et al. Black Holes, Gravitational Waves and Fundamental Physics. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 36/143001, 2019. We cite this entry among many as an example of today’s Earhtwise collaborative, multi-author (some 200 here) research projects as they proceed apace with humankinder’s self-quantitative discovery of a genesis uniVerse. The 272 page document is posted as 1806.05195 on the arXiv eprint site, search Samaya Nissanke among names for follow up studies such as A Unique Multi-Messenger Signal of QCD Axion Dark Matter (1905.04686). Within the broad Natural PhiloSophia purview of this resource site, we are invited to appreciate and recognize this phenomenal Earth capability and achievement of cosmic significance.

The grand challenges of contemporary fundamental physics - dark matter, dark energy, vacuum energy, inflation and early universe cosmology, singularities and the hierarchy problem - all involve gravity as a key component. And of all gravitational phenomena, black holes stand out in their elegant simplicity, while harbouring some of the most remarkable predictions of General Relativity: event horizons, singularities and ergoregions. The purpose of this work is to present a concise, yet comprehensive overview of the state of the art in the relevant fields of research, summarize important open problems, and lay out a roadmap for future progress. (Abstract)

Barrau, Aurelien. The Holographic Space-time and Black Hole Remnants as Dark Matter. arXiv:2201.06988. The author is a French physicist and philosopher engaged with astroparticles, black holes and cosmology, and is the director of the Grenoble Center for Theoretical Physics. Again we cite as a present example by one person of the infinite reach of our Earthuman scientific prowess as it delves, so it seems, into any dynamic process and scalar dimension.

The holographic space-time approach to inflation provides a well defined and self-contained framework to study the early universe. Based on a quasi-local quantum gravity generalizing string theory beyond AdS backgrounds, it addresses fundamental issues like the arrow of time and the entropy of the initial cosmological state. It may also provide a naturel explanation for dark matter in the form of primordial black holes. This possibility is investigated and paths for observational confirmation are pointed out. (Abstract excerpt)

Bartelmann, Matthias, et al. A Microscopic, Non-Equilibrium, Statistical Field Theory for Cosmic Structure Formation. New Journal of Physics. 18/043020, 2016. Heidelberg University astrophysicists here apply their generic theoretical conception as posted on arXiv eprint site (search MB) to celestial dimensions.

Baugh, C. M. A Primer on Hierarchical Galaxy Formation. Reports on Progress in Physics. 69/12, 2006. Along with the Mekjian paper below, a report that interstellar reaches take on the same invariant, nested geometries that grace nature everywhere.

The aim of this review is to provide an introduction to the ideas and concepts that underpin modern ideas about galaxy formation in a universe in which cosmic structures build up hierarchically through gravitational instability. (3104)

Bennett, Charles. Cosmology from Start to Finish. Nature. 440/1126, 2006. The latest views in a special section on the Early Universe. Aspects in need of work are its instant origin and ultimate fate. But the presence along the way of a personal creative intelligence able to describe such vistas, on the cusp of self-discovery, remains of no account.

With recent precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation, large galaxy redshift surveys, better measurements of the expansion rate of the Universe and a host of other astrophysical observations, there is now a standard, highly constrained cosmological model. Unidentified dark particles dominate the matter content of our Universe, and mysteries surround the processes responsible for the accelerated expansion at its earliest moments and for its recent acceleration. (1126)

Berera, Arjun. The Warm Inflationary Universe. Contemporary Physics. 47/1, 2006. By joining particle physics and cosmology, the properties of dissipation and fluctuation can be added to the inflationary dynamics of cosmic origin. This achieves an improved model herein surveyed.

Berlinski, Vladimir and Marc Henneaux. The Cosmological Singularity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Senior International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Network, Italy and Free University of Brussels theorists retrospectively describe in fine mathematical facets of this phenomenal point of universal origin. See also Berlinski’s papers on the arXiv eprint site such as On the Cosmological Singularity (1404.3864).

Biteau, Jonathan. Stellar Mass and Star Formation Rate within a Billion Light Years. arXiv:2105.11345. We cite this entry by a University of Paris-CNRS astrophysicist, which builds upon some 100 references, so to pause and wonder how incredible it is that evanescent beings on a minute bioworld can yet altogether be able to explore, quantify and describe the depth and expanse of a spatial and temporal universe reality from which they arose. What a fantastic scenario becomes apparent. Whomever are we Earthlings, for what purpose may we ask, what great discovery could there be to achieve?

To develop galaxy-targeting approaches, the gravitational-wave community built a catalog of stellar mass in the local universe based on the 2MASS spectroscopic and photometric redshift surveys. By cleaning and supplementing this catalog, the present work aims to establish a near-infrared flux-limited sample to map both stellar mass and star formation rate (SFR) over the full sky. Scaling relations with stellar mass as a function of morphology are used to construct a SFR cosmography in the local universe. The present work provides in particular new bases for modeling the large- and intermediate-scale anisotropies observed at ultra-high energies. (Abstract excerpt)

Bluck,, Asa, et al. What Shapes a Galaxy? Unraveling the Role of Mass, Environment and Star Formation in Forming Galactic Structure. arxiv:1902.01665. A dozen astrophysicists from Canada, the UK, Switzerland, and Australia proceed to test, quantify and find out. But our interest is to record how really fantastic is it that our collaborative human intellects upon a minutest bioworld are yet capable at all of learning any reach of space and time. Who are we suddenly sapient, literate, instrumental beings to do this, what august purpose might be imagined.

We investigate the dependence of galaxy structure on a variety of galactic and environmental parameters for ∼500,000 galaxies at z<0.2, taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data release 7. We rank galaxy and environmental parameters in terms of how predictive they are of galaxy structure, using an artificial neural network approach. We find that distance from the star forming main sequence, followed by stellar mass, are the most closely connected parameters to the bulge to stellar mass ratio. In our simulations, we find a significant lack of bulge-dominated galaxies at a fixed stellar mass, compared to the SDSS. (Abstract excerpt)

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