Calibrating the Cosmos. How Cosmology Explains Our Big Bang Universe - Frank Levin (2007 Springer, 297p).pdf

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Calibrating the Cosmos
How Cosmology Explains Our Big Bang Universe
Frank S. Levin, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Physics
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
USA
Jacket illustration: WMAP image of the anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background
radiation, shown on an oval projection that represents the full sky. Courtesy of NASA and
the WMAP science team.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2005937514
ISBN-10: 0-387-30778-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-387-30778-7
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Preface
Calibrating the Cosmos is based on lectures I gave in several adult-
education courses. By dealing with technical details in a descrip-
tive way, I structured the courses for people who wanted to gain
some knowledge of the physical universe as it is currently under-
stood but had neither a science nor a mathematics background.
The lectures were hard science, softly presented. As with the
course, so with the book: it is written for persons whose curiosity
about the physical universe extends to a readiness to learn