How to prove the stretching of space

Tanelorn

Thanks Devlin, great link. Roughly how many Cosmologists are there today worldwide working in the field?

wdevlin

Professional Cosmologist?
Not including any resent Chinese involvement, I would say no more than 100. That's an estimation based on the amount of published work I've come across since my early education by Sagan:)

Mordred

I looked at that site you posted. Looks to me that much of what he' s saying is outdated. Not to mention misleading.

Chalnoth

In all of cosmology? There are at least three times that working on the Planck satellite alone. I'd wager to guess there are in the range of 10,000 in total, perhaps more. Though I suppose the lines blur a bit between astronomers and cosmologists, and if you're only talking about theoretical cosmologists the number is much smaller (probably only a couple thousand).

wdevlin

Being that books on the subject of Eternal Inflation by Andrei Linde and David H. Lyth can cost $100 (and which I can only previewed);
Do you have any up-to-date, more accurate material on the subject?