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Of Cosmic Background Anisotropies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

G.F. Smoot*
Affiliation:
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Space Sciences Laboratory, Center for Particle Astrophysics, and Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, USA 94720

Abstract

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Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Radiation have put the standard model of cosmology, the Big Bang, on firm footing and provide tests of various ideas of large scale structure formation. CMB observations now let us test the role of gravity and General Relativity in cosmology including the geometry, topology, and dynamics of the Universe. Foreground galactic emissions, dust thermal emission and emission from energetic electrons, provide a serious limit to observations. Nevertheless, observations may determine if the evolution of the Universe can be understood from fundamental physical principles.

Type
Part I: Invited Reviews
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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