Cosmology
Perimeter Institute
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Campus location
Waterloo, Canada
Languages
English
Study format
Distance Learning
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Earliest start date
Sep 2024
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Introduction
This learning module provides an introduction to modern cosmology and how it explains some experimental facts about our Universe. We start by discussing the homogenous universe described by the FRW spacetime, explain the various components of the matter content, touch on Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, CMB, dark matter, and dark energy. We also discuss motivations for introducing inflation and how it predicts the right kind of fluctuations that lead to the structure formation in our Universe.