Rocky Kolb, “A Universe of Particles: Cosmological Reflections” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in the History of Science
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A Course in Astronomy
I've never taken a course in astronomy or astrophysics. I picked up astronomy on the streets, is what i tell people. And so so we sort of learned it together. But at this time, cosmology was not considered respectable. So they considered astronomy as a, always just orders of magnitude. Nothing's rigorous, is just handwaving. And cosmology was even worse. Y, who whokin? How can you say anything about the universe of after the bet? Where's the experimental evidence?
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