Chapters
- The name is the thing
- Einstein’s way
- The great debate
- The de sitter universe
- The Lemaitre-Hubble affaire
- The cosmological constant strikes back
Abstract
| I
will discuss the birth of cosmology as a science by giving a short
account of the Einstein-de Sitter debate. Before doing this I will
discuss certain issues related to the very idea of a cosmology by
examining the origin of the concept. As a by product I will also
provide a short introduction to the de Sitter geometry. |
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