Re: Cosmology since 1972

Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply <helbig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Someone once said "Every 10 years, something wonderful happens in
> cosmology: Jim Peebles publishes a textbook." Check out his textbook
> from 1991 or thereabouts to see what changed in the two decades
> before that.

I enthusiastly endorse that recommendation. The book is
P. J. E. Peebles
"Principles of Physical Cosmology"
Princeton U.P., 1993
paperback ISBN 0-691-01933-9
It's a wonderful book.

ciao,

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Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut),
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powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."
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