1997/03/31 by Michael S. Turner, Turner, Michael S.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #History and Developments in Astronomy #astro-ph #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9703197
29 pages LaTeX (sprocl.sty) with 7 eps figures. Published in Lepton-Photon Interactions (Proceedings of the XVII International Symposium, Beijing 1995), edited by Z.-P. Zheng and H.-S. Chen (World Scientific, 1996), p. 693
arxiv created 1997/03/31 · openalex publication_date 1997/03/31 · arxiv updated 2016/02/09 · openalex created_date 2024/04/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Cosmology is very exciting for three reasons. There is a very successful standard model - the hot big bang - which describes the evolution of the Universe from 10-2 sec onward. There are bold ideas, foremost among them are inflation and cold dark matter, which can extend the standard cosmology to within 10-32 sec of the bang and address some of the most fundamental questions in cosmology. There is a flood of data - from determinations of the Hubble constant to measurements of CBR anisotropy - that are testing inflation and cold dark matter.