Cosmology 1996

✍ Scribed by Michael S. Turner

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 626 KB
• Volume: 621
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9474(97)00300-x

✦ Synopsis

The current state of cosmology is easy to summarize: a very successful standard modelthe hot big-bang cosmology -that accounts for the evolution of the Universe from 10 -2 sec until the present; bold ideas based upon early-Universe physics -foremost among them inflation and cold dark matter -that can extend the standard cosmology to times as early as 10 -32 sec and address the most pressing questions; and a flood of observations -from determinations of the Hubble constant to measurements of CBR anisotropy -that are testing inflation and cold dark matter.