TY - GEN AU - Lyth, David H. TI - History of the universe SN - 9783319227436 U1 - 523.1 PY - 2016/// CY - London PB - Springer KW - Sewage disposal KW - Cosmology KW - Astrology N1 - Contents 1 The Universe 1 2 Before We Begin 7 3 The Fundamental Theories 11 4 Atoms and Electromagnetism 17 5 The Present Universe 25 6 Collisions and Decays 31 7 A First Look at the History 37 8 Energy Density of the Universe 45 9 In the Beginning 49 10 Friedmann Tells the Time 53 11 Ripples in the Universe 57 12 Galaxy Formation 63 13 The Higgs Field 67 14 Inflation 71 15 Generating the Perturbation 75 16 Prehistory of the Big Bang 79 17 What About Us? 85 A More Detail with Some Mathematics 87 B Tables 107 Glossary 111 Index 117 ER -