Einstein’s legacy: Relativistic cosmology
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2005-12-25
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Indian Academy of Sciences
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This review gives a historical account of how cosmology has developed since the 1917 paper of Albert Einstein. Today it is a frontier level science drawing on contempo-rary astronomy as well as contemporary physics,
stretching both as far as extrapolations will permit. Thanks to numerous observations at different wave-lengths, cosmologists today have their plates full. Ex-trapolations of laboratory tested physics are called for
to understand all information within the framework of a standard model. The success and shortcomings of this approach are briefly discussed against the historical backdrop.
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Astroparticle physics, Cosmology, Extra gala-ctic astronomy