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Lecture 1
What Is Cosmology?
 
What Is Cosmology?
Study of the origin and evolution of theuniverse and its parts
Goal is to learn
how 
, not
why 
, thingshappen
From the big bang, through atoms, stars,galaxies, and ultimately life
Cosmology also lets us speculate on theultimate fate of the universe
 
The Scales We Probe: From theMicroworld to the Cosmos
Ouraborus
(def): emblematic serpent of Ancient Egypt and Greece,expressing the unity of all things. Represented as a snake eating itstail, and thus continuously devours and being reborn of itself.
Figure from M. Rees’“Just Six Numbers”
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