Should We Believe in Big Bang?
- Pablo G. Ostrov explains Big Bang theory for non-scientists.
- http://pgostrov.googlepages.com/e1.html

1st SPOT Cosmology
- References to cosmological sites featuring in-depth coverage of issues like dark matter, black holes and symmetric theory.
- http://1st-spot.net/topic_cosmology.html

Caltech Observational Cosmology
- The home page of Caltech's Observational Cosmology Group. We build cool stuff, and use it to study the Universe.
- http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~lgg/

The Boomerang Experiment
- Boomerang is a balloon borne millimeter-wave telescope designed to study the anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background.
- http://boom.caltech.edu

Big Bang Cosmology
- This page presents a fairly extensive overview of the big bang model. Topics include nucleosynthesis, the Friedmann equation, and the cosmological constant.
- http://www.scienceandreason.net/oq/oq-co008.htm

Stephen Hawking's Universe
- Detailed explanations of the most important ideas and developments in human understanding of the universe. Includes original essays by some of today's leading figures in cosmology, along with original illustrations, program descriptions, explanations of c
- http://www.thirteen.org/hawking/

Cosmology: Methodological Debates 1932-48
- Discusses philosophical views about cosmology in the 1930s and 1940s; from the Stanford Encyclopedia, by George Gale.
- http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmology-30s/

University of Alberta Theoretical Physics Institute
- Includes a staff list and a brief description of work done in that centre.
- http://fermi.phys.ualberta.ca/

Classic research papers in relativistic cosmology
- Online list of classic research papers in relativistic cosmology and general relativity, with links to arXiv.org when available.
- http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~hve/paplist.html

Cosmological models (Cargèse lectures 1998)
- The aim of this set of lectures is a systematic presentation of a 1+3 covariant approach to studying the geometry, dynamics, and observational properties of relativistic cosmological models.
- http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9812046

Cosmological Constant
- Recently two different groups have measured the apparent brightness of supernovae with redshifts near z = 1. Based on this data the old idea of a cosmological constant is making a comeback.
- http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmo_constant.html

The Cosmological Constant
- The following pages present a discussion of the role the cosmological constant plays in modern cosmology. They are designed to offer an overview of how the cosmological constant alters standard cosmology, and to discuss whether a non-zero cosmological con
- http://super.colorado.edu/~michaele/Lambda/lambda.html

Scientific American: Four Keys to Cosmology
- The big bang theory works better than ever. If only cosmologists could figure out that mysterious acceleration....
- http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=0005DCFC-253F-1FFB-A53F83414B7F0000

A Study of a Model Cosmology
- Contains report of a seminar on a model cosmology with a preliminary introduction to General Relativity.
- http://khwarizmi.phy.iitb.ac.in/~surhud/seminarhtml/

Space, Time, and Cosmology
- Learn about the origins of the universe and its fate. Einstein's Theory of Relativity is both interesting and comprehensible.
- http://www.drphysics.com/relativity.html

Cosmic Topology
- General relativity does not allow one to specify the topology of space, leaving the possibility that space is multi- rather than simply- connected. This paper reviews the mathematical properties of multi-connected spaces, and the different tools to
- http://fr.arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9605010

Dynamical Systems in Cosmology
- A tutorial introducing the use of dynamical systems to study the large scale structure of the universe.
- http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9910074

Elementary introduction to pre-big bang cosmology and to the relic graviton background
- This is a contracted version of a series of lectures for graduate and undergraduate students
- http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9907067

A Simple Introduction to Pre-Big-Bang Physics/Cosmology
- A simple, non-technical introduction to the pre-big bang scenario is given, emphasizing physical motivations, considerations, and consequences over formalism.
- http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9802057

Introduction to Cosmology - Astrophysics
- These notes form an introduction to cosmology with special emphasis on large scale structure, the cmb anisotropy and inflation. In some places a basic familiarity with particle physics is assumed, but otherwise no special knowledge is needed.
- http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9312022

Mathematical Cosmology
- A review of current unsolved problems in mathematical cosmology
- http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0107090

Multidimensional Gravity and Cosmology
- A short review of recent results on exact solutions in multidimensional cosmology
- http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9801037

A Review of Inflationary Cosmology
- The aim of this lecture is to highlight two areas of recent progress in inflationary cosmology, namely reheating and the quantum theory of cosmological perturbations.
- http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0101119

Minkowski Functionals in Cosmology
- Minkowski functionals provide a novel tool to characterize the large-scale galaxy distribution in the Universe. Here we give a brief tutorial on the basic features of these morphological measures and indicate their practical application for si
- http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9508154

From Newton's Laws to the Wheeler-deWitt equation
- This is a pedagogical paper which explains some ideas in cosmology at a level accessible to undergraduate students. Following standard quantization procedures the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in the minisuperspace approximation is derived for empt
- http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9806004

Introduction to Cosmology - High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- A set of postrscript lecture notes by George Lazarides on the basic principles of cosmology.
- http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9904502

Cosmology II: From Planck Time to BBN
- Progress in early Universe cosmology, including strings, extra dimensions, inflation, phase transitions, and baryogenesis, is reviewed.
- http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9909247

Numerical Simulations in Cosmology I: Methods
- This lecture gives a short introduction to different methods used in cosmology. The focus is on major features of N-body simulations: equations, main numerical techniques, effects of resolution, and methods of halo identification.
- http://it.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0005502

Introductory review of cosmic inflation
- These lecture notes provide an introduction to cosmic inflation. In particular the basic concepts of inflation, generation of density perturbations, and reheating after inflation.
- http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0304257

Particle Aspects of Cosmology and Baryogenesis
- An introduction to particle aspects of cosmology with particular reference to primordial nucleosynthesis, dark matter and baryogenesis is provided. In particular, various scenarios-GUT baryogenesis, electroweak baryogenesis and baryogenesis through leptog
- http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0302020

String Cosmology: A Review
- Talk presented at COSPAR '02, Houston, Texas, October 2002.
- http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0303499

Cosmology from Topological Defects
- Lecture Notes delivered at the Xth Brazilian School on Cosmology and Gravitation, Mangaratiba, Rio de Janeiro, July 29 - August 9, 2002.
- http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0303504

Everything Forever; Learning to See and Model All Possible Universes
- This site is intended to help the reader step outside of time and imagine the shape of what is ultimately possible in a timeless universe.
- http://everythingforever.com

Low Density Inflationary Universes
- A review of the geometry and density of the universe, with a focus on inflationary models.
- http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/inf_lowden.html

An Exposition on Inflationary Cosmology
- In this paper, the fundamentals of modern cosmology for an isotropic and homogeneous space-time will be reviewed. Other issues suggesting a more general theory are presented and inflation is introduced as a resolution to this conundrum.
- http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Watson/TOC.html

Cambridge Cosmology Homepage
- A site dedicated to cosmology, both basic and advanced, maintained by Cambridge university
- http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/cos_home.html

Cosmological Models
- The aim of this set of lectures is a systematic presentation of a 1+3 covariant approach to studying the geometry, dynamics, and observational properties of relativistic cosmological models.
- http://it.arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9812046

New Developments in Cosmology
- A review of how the understanding of our Universe has evolved
- http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/newcosmology.html

The Possible Geometries for Space
- A short article on the possible structures for space in the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker model
- http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/cosmology/frwgeometry.html

Einstein-deSitter Model
- An article on the Einstein-deSitter model of cosmology
- http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Einstein-deSitterCosmologicalModel.html

Topology of the Universe
- A thesis (in PDF format) which studies the possible topologies of the universe and their physical implications.
- http://www.maths.lse.ac.uk/Personal/mark/topos.pdf

Friedmann-Lemaitre Cosmological Models
- Article from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics.
- http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Friedmann-LemaitreCosmologicalModel.html

A Quantum Leap for Cosmology
- A theory that unites quantum mechanics and general relativity claims that there was no first moment in time, but it still agrees with the predictions of classical cosmology.
- http://physicsweb.org/article/world/14/11/3

String Cosmology
- A lecture on aspects of superstring theory and cosmology.
- http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0111275

Introduction to Inflationary Cosmology
- Introduction to cosmology and inflation by Scott Watson of Brown University.
- http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Watson/Watson_contents.html

Cosmology
- From the Official String Theory Website. Basic and advanced tutorials on the age and structure of the universe, the Big Bang, and the relation of string theory to cosmology.
- http://www.superstringtheory.com/cosmo/index.html