36 Lectures 30 minutes / lecture The Journey Ahead Denizens of the Universe Overall Cosmic Properties The Stuff of the Universe The Sweep of Cosmic History Measuring Distances Expansion and Age Distances, Appearances, and Horizons Dark Matter and Dark Energy—96%! Cosmic Geometry—Triangles in the Sky Cosmic Expansion—Keeping Track of Energy Cosmic Acceleration—Falling Outward The Cosmic Microwave Background Conditions during the First Million Years Primordial Sound—Big Bang Acoustics Using Sound as Cosmic Diagnostic Primordial Roughness—Seeding Structure The Dark Age—From Sound to the First Stars Infant Galaxies From Child to Maturity—Galaxy Evolution Giant Black Holes—Construction and Carnage The Galaxy Web—A Relic of Primordial Sound Atom Factories—Stellar Interiors Understanding Element Abundances Light Elements—Made in the Big Bang Putting It Together—The Concordance Model Physics at Ultrahigh Temperatures Back to a Microsecond—The Particle Cascade Back to the GUT—Matter and Forces Emerge Puzzling Problems Remain Inflation Provides the Solution The Quantum Origin of All Structure Inflation's Stunning Creativity Fine Tuning and Anthropic Arguments What's Next for Cosmology? A Comprehensible Universe? Benyamin Mohammadi Url: CDPersian.Com Mail: info@CDPersian.Com Y!: Beni.Pretty