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====== Cosmology ====== | ====== Cosmology ====== | ||
- | <tabbox Why is it interesting?> | ||
- | <tabbox Layman> | ||
- | <note tip> | + | <tabbox Intuitive> |
- | Explanations in this section should contain no formulas, but instead colloquial things like you would hear them during a coffee break or at a cocktail party. | + | |
- | </note> | + | [{{ :branches:universehistory_nsf-highres_preview.jpeg?nolink&800 |Credit: N.R.Fuller, National Science Foundation}}] |
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- | <tabbox Student> | + | <tabbox Concrete> |
+ | * [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.10315|The expanding universe]] by Markus Pössel; "An introduction to the physics and mathematics of the expanding universe, using no more than high-school level / undergraduate mathematics. " | ||
- | The best introductions are Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology by Ta-Pei Cheng and The Early Universe | + | **Recommended Textbooks:** |
- | by Edward Kolb and Michael S. Turner | + | |
+ | * The best introductions are Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology by Ta-Pei Cheng and | ||
+ | * The Early Universe by Edward Kolb and Michael S. Turner | ||
+ | * Edward R. Harrison, Cosmology, the Science of the Universe | ||
+ | * M. Berry, Cosmology and Gravitation | ||
- | Many questions that frequently pop up are answered here | ||
- | https://preposterousuniverse.com/cosmologyprimer/faq.html | ||
- | and here | + | * Another nice introduction to the CMB and related effects is [[https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/poor-mans-cmb-primer-part-0-orientation/|A Poor Man’s CMB Primer]] and [[http://www.quantumfieldtheory.info/CMB.pdf|Student Friendly Guide to the Cosmic Microwave Background]] by Robert D. Klauber |
- | http://astro.utoronto.ca/~cczhu/ZhuQual.pdf | ||
- | <tabbox Researcher> | + | <tabbox Abstract> |
- | <note tip> | + | **Recommended Books:** |
- | The motto in this section is: //the higher the level of abstraction, the better//. | + | |
- | </note> | + | |
- | --> Common Question 1# | + | * John A. Peacock, Cosmological Physics |
- | + | <tabbox Why is it interesting?> | |
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- | --> Common Question 2# | + | <tabbox FAQ> |
- | + | Many questions that frequently pop up in cosmology are answered [[https://preposterousuniverse.com/cosmologyprimer/faq.html|here]] and [[http://astro.utoronto.ca/~cczhu/ZhuQual.pdf|here]] | |
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- | <tabbox Examples> | ||
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- | <tabbox History> | ||
</tabbox> | </tabbox> | ||