A&C Reference Library - Astronomy & Cosmology Resources

[marcus]

Good 43 minute video of probing interviews with Abhay Ashtekar and Ivan Agullo.

Skydive Phil made it.
https://www.physicsforums.com/search.php?searchid=4190288

 

[marcus]

Quarlep, a newcomer, pointed to this "wonders of the cosmos" compendium:
http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/~yuki/cosmos/

== George Jones in response to question by Wabbit ==
A technical reference on the effect of the universe's expansion on gravitationally interacting systems is "The influence of the cosmological expansion
on local systems" by Cooperstock, Faraoni, and Vollick,

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9803097A reference (somewhat less technical than the reference above) on electrically interacting systems (e.g., atoms) is "In an expanding universe, what doesn’t expand?" by Price and Romano,

http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0508052
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[wabbit]

== George Jones in response to question by Wabbit ==
(...)
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9803
(...)
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0508052
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On the same topic (local effect of expansion), a later paper expanding on the above: Valerio Faraoni, Audrey Jacques, Cosmological expansion and local physics (http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1350)

 

[marcus]

Chronos found and pointed to an excellent, simple discussion of the "expansion not explosion" idea in cosmology:
http://profmattstrassler.com/articl...he-universe/big-bang-expansion-not-explosion/

 

[marcus]

Wabbit found and linked us to "General Relativity without Calculus" by Jose Natario
http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~jnatar/RM-12/Geom_Rel.pdf
excellent text for bright motivated high school students
interesting well-posed exercises (with solutions given in a different section) that can be done with ordinary algebra and trig if you see how.
It has a chapter on cosmology with Friedmann equation