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Title:		Modern cosmology
Authors:		ZELDOVICH, IA. B.
Affiliation:		AA(Akademiia Nauk SSSR, Institut Kosmicheskikh Issledovanii, Moscow, USSR)
Journal:		IN: Highlights of astronomy. Volume 6 - International Astronomical Union, General Assembly, 18th, Patras, Greece, August 17-26, 1982, Proceedings (A84-28901 12-90). Dordrecht, D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1983, p. 29-52.
Publication Date:		00/1983
Category:		Astrophysics
Origin:		STI
NASA/STI Keywords:		BIG BANG COSMOLOGY, BARYONS, GALACTIC EVOLUTION, UNIVERSE
Bibliographic Code:		1983HiAst...6...29Z

Abstract

Selected aspects of current cosmological theory are discussed in a historical review. The progress of cosmology is attributed to improvements in observational technique and in the field of theoretical physics and to the willingness of individual scientists to challenge established conceptions. The Hot Big Bang theory and the periodization of cosmological evolution are introduced, and the history of increasing insight into the nature of the transparent universe, the structure of the universe and its provenance, the baryon asymmetry of the universe, the inflationary phase of the very very early universe, the possibility of the quantum birth of the universe, and the cosmological constant is traced and illustrated.

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