Cosmology for the Curious

Part I The Big Bang and the Observable Universe: A historical overview.- Newton's universe.- Special relativity.- The fabric of space and time.- An expanding universe.- Observational cosmology.- Hubble's law and the expanding universe.- The fate of the universe.- Dark matter and dark energy.- The quantum world.- The hot big bang.- Structure formation.- Element abundances.- The very early universe.- Part II Beyond the Big Bang: Problems with the big bang.- The theory of cosmic inflation.- Testing inflation: predictions and observations.- Eternal inflation.- String theory and the multiverse.- Anthropic selection.- The principle of mediocrity.- Did the universe have a beginning?.- Creation of universes from nothing.- The big picture.- Appendix.

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Anthropic Principle;Creation Ex Nihilo;Creation of Universe from Nothing;Doppelgaenger;Easy Introduction to Cosmology;Essential Principles of Cosmology;Inflationary Cosmology;Principle of Mediocrity;The Early Universe;The Hot Big Bang;The Multiverse