Stardust, Supernovae and the Molecules of Life (Record no. 101048)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781461413325 |
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| Standard number or code | 10.1007/978-1-4614-1332-5 |
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| Classification number | QH327-328 |
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| Subject category code | VXQB |
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| Subject category code | SCI004000 |
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| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 576.839 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Boyd, Richard N. |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Stardust, Supernovae and the Molecules of Life |
| Medium | [electronic resource] : |
| Remainder of title | Might We All Be Aliens? / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | by Richard N. Boyd. |
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| -- | New York, NY : |
| -- | Springer New York, |
| -- | 2012. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | XI, 215p. 39 illus., 26 illus. in color. |
| Other physical details | online resource. |
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| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Astronomers' Universe, |
| International Standard Serial Number | 1614-659X |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1: In the Beginning -- 1.2: What is "Life?" -- 1.3: The Miller Urey Experiment -- 1.4: General Background and Definitions -- Chapter 2: What is the Origin of the Lightest Elements -- 2.1: The Big Bang -- 2.2: The Supernova Cosmology Project -- 2.3: The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe -- 2.4: Olber's Paradox -- 2.5: Big Bang Nucleosynthesis - BBN -- Chapter 3: What is the Origin of the Rest of the Elements? -- 3.1: Introduction to Stellar Nucleosynthesis -- 3.2.1: Hydrogen Burning -- 3.2.2: Helium Burning -- 3.2.3: Subsequent Burning Stages -- 3.3: After Stellar Burning -- 3.3.1: Creating a Core-Collapse Supernova Explosion -- 3.3.2: Synthesizing the Heavy Elements -- 3.3.3: White Dwarfs -- 3.3.4: Type Ia Supernovae -- Chapter 4: Creation of Molecules in the Interstellar Medium -- 4.1: The Electromagnetic Spectrum -- 4.2: Detecting Photons of Different Energies -- 4.3: Secrets from Meteorites -- 4.4: Mining the Comets -- 4.5: The Next Huge Step - Forming Life from the Molecules Delivered to Earth -- Chapter 5: Amino Acids and Chirality -- 5.1: A Primer on Amino Acids -- 5.2: Chirality and Polarization -- 5.3: Relating Optical and Molecular Chirality -- 5.3.1: Chiral Selection -- 5.3.2: A Little Atomic Physics and Some Very Basic Quantum Mechanics -- 5.4: The Other Molecules of Life -- Chapter 6: How Have Scientists Explained the Amino Acid Chirality? -- 6.1: Models that Produce Chirality -- 6.1.1: Chiral Selection via Circularly Polarized Sunlight -- 6.1.2: Chiral Selection via Circularly Polarized Sunlight -- 6.1.3: Chiral Selection via the Weak Interaction -- 6.1.4: Chiral Selection via Chemical Selection in Clay -- 6.2: Amplification via Chemical Catalysis -- 6.3: Laboratory Experiments and Theoretical Developments -- 6.4: Terrestrial Amplification -- 6.5: Concluding Remarks on Amplification.- Chapter 7: What Happens to the Amino Acids When the Supernova Explodes? -- 7.1: The Supernova -- 7.2: The Neutrino Story -- 7.3: Interactions of Neutrinos with 14N -- 7.4: Relating the 14 N Spin to the Molecular Chirality -- 7.5: The Supernova Progenitor Star -- Chapter 8: Spreading Chirality Throughout the Galaxy and Throughout the Earth -- 8.1: Might Supernovae Process All the Amino Acids in the Galaxy? -- 8.2: Spreading Molecules and Enantiomerism Throughout the Galaxy -- 8.2.1: Cosmic Amplification -- 8.2.2: Cosmic Amplification -- 8.2.2: Galactic Mixing -- 8.2.3: Planetary Amplification -- 8.3: Testing the Models of Amino Acid Chirality -- 8.4: The Impact of Amino Acid Chirality on Questions of the Origin of Life in the Universe -- Chapter 9: What About the Rest of the Universe? -- 9.1: Are We Alone? -- 9.2: Extremophiles on Earth -- 9.3: And From Outer Space? -- Glossary -- Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Where were the amino acids, the molecules of life, created: perhaps in a lightning storm in the early Earth, or perhaps elsewhere in the cosmos? This book argues that at least some of them must have been produced in the cosmos, and that the fact that the Earthly amino acids have a specific handedness provides an important clue for that explanation. The book discusses several models that purport to explain the handedness, ultimately proposing a new explanation that involves cosmic processing of the amino acids produced in space. The book provides a tour for laypersons that includes a definition of life, the Big Bang, stellar nucleosynthesis, the electromagnetic spectrum, molecules, and supernovae and the particles they produce. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Physics. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Evolution (Biology). |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Astrobiology. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Astronomy. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Physics. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Astrobiology. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Popular Science in Astronomy. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Evolutionary Biology. |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Title | Springer eBooks |
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| Display text | Printed edition: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781461413318 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Astronomers' Universe, |
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| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1332-5 |
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