1 A brief history 1
2 Einstein and allthat 12
3 First principles 27
4 The expanding Universe 39
5 The Big Bang 57
6 What's the matter with the Universe? 74
7 Cosmic structures 93
8 A theory of everything? 107
Epilogue 129
Further reading 131
Index 135
第一章 宇宙学简史 143
第二章 爱因斯坦的理论及其影响 153
第三章 第一原理 166
第四章 膨胀的宇宙 176
第五章 大爆炸 191
第六章 宇宙发生了什么 204
第七章 宇宙的结构 220
第八章 统一理论 233
后记 251
1 The Babylonian God Marduk From The Mythology of All Races,ed.J.A.MacCulloch(Cooper Square.1964);see Echoes of the Ancient Skies,E.C.Krupp,p.68. 3
2 Thought-experiment illustrating the equivalence principle From P.Coles,Einstein and the Birth of Big Science(Icon Books,2000) 19
3 The bending of light From P.Coles,Einstein and the Birth of Big Science(Icon Books,2000) 23
4 The curvature of space From P.Coles,Einstein and the Birth of Big Science(Icon Books,2000) 25
5 Open,flat,and closed spaces in two dimensions 35
6 Hubble's Law 40
7 The Hubble diagram From Hubble(1929),Proceedings of Nat.Acad.Sci.,15,168-173;see The Expanding Universe,R.C.Smith,p.92 41
8 Redshift 46
9 The Hubble diagram updated 48
10 The Hubble Space Telescope Space Telescope Science Institute 52
11 Cepheids in M100 Space Telescope Science Institute 53
12 The age of the Universe 55
13 The spectrum of the cosmic microwave background NASA and George Smoot 60
14 Looking back in time 66
15 Building blocks of matter Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 69
16 The Friedmann models 77
17 The Coma cluster National Optical Astronomy Observatories 82
18 Coma in X-rays High Energy Astrophysics Archive Research Center 83
19 Gravitational lensing Space Telescope Science Institute 84
20 The Andromeda Nebula Jason Ware 94
21 The Lick Map Steve Maddox 95
22 The 2dF galaxy redshift survey Steve Maddox and the 2dF Consortium 97
23 The COBE ripples NASA and George Smoot 100
24 The Hubble deep field The Virgo Consortium 101
25 Simulation of structure formation Space Telescope Science Institute 103
26 BOOMERANG The Boomerang Collaboration 105
27 The flatness of space The Boomerang Collaboration 106
28 A theory of everything 113
29 Space-time foam From 300 Years of Gravity,ed.S.W.Hawking and W.Israel(Cambridge University Press,1987),p.625 116
图1．古代巴比伦人之神马杜克 145
图2．想象实验阐释等效原理 159
图3．光线的弯曲 163
图4．空间的弯曲 164
图5．开放、平坦和封闭的二维空间 173
图6．哈勃定律 177
图7．哈勃图 178
图8．红移 182
图9．更新后的哈勃图 183
图10．哈勃空间望远镜 187
图11．M100中的造父变星 188
图12．宇宙的年龄 189
图13．宇宙微波背景辐射谱 194
图14．回溯时间 198
图15．物质的组成 200
图16．弗里德曼模型 206
图17．后发星系团 210
图18．X射线波段的后发星系团 211
图19．引力透镜 213
图20．仙女座大星云 221
图21．Lick（里克）星系分布图 222
图22．2dF星系红移巡天 223
图23．COBE探测的宇宙背景波纹 226
图24．哈勃深场 227
图25．结构形成的模拟 229
图26．BOOMERANG气球 230
图27．平坦的空间 232
图28．统一理论 238
图29．时-空泡沫 241