Big Bang Cosmology

A topic within Cosmology, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Astronomy & Space Science.

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A Relation between Distance and Radial Velocity among Extra-Galactic Nebulae

Edwin Hubble

Shows that galaxies recede at speeds roughly proportional to their distance, the observation that founded the expanding-universe picture of the cosmos.

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MIT 8.286 The Early Universe

Alan Guth (MIT OpenCourseWare)

Derives big bang cosmology from general relativity and thermodynamics, and sets out the horizon and flatness problems that motivated inflation, taught by the physicist who proposed it.

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Reading on Big Bang Cosmology

A Relation between Distance and Radial Velocity among Extra-Galactic Nebulae

MIT 8.286 The Early Universe

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