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- Motivation
- CMBR
- Overview
- Overview
- Big Bang Thermodynamics
- Thermodynamics, Equation of State
- Early Universe
- Early Expansion, Elementary Particles, Interlude, Neutrinos, Entropy, Reheating
- Nucleosynthesis: Theory
- History, Proton/Neutron, Deuterium, Heavier Elements, Detailed Computations, Remarkable Things
- Nucleosynthesis: Observations
- 4 He, Deuterium, Lithium, Population III, Summary
- Summary: Classical Big Bang
- Inflation: Problems
- Inflation, Horizon problem, Flatness problem, Hidden relics problem, Vacuum and Lambda, Expansion problem, Structure formation
- Inflation: Theory
- Basic Idea, Summary, Scalar Fields, First-Order Inflation, Summary
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