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Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial

Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial

Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial

This note covers the following topics: Observations of Global Properties, Homogeneity and Isotropy, Many Distances, Scale Factor, Spatial Curvature, Flatness-Oldness, Horizon, Inflation, Anisotropy and Inhomogeneity.

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