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You should be familiar with the following terms as well as terms from previous chapters:
- Georges Lemaître
- Sir Arthur Eddington
- cosmology
- Alexander Friedmann
- Hubble–Lemaître law
- Hubble constant
- cosmological constant (\(\Lambda\))
- primeval atom
- Hubble time
- Big Bang
- cosmological redshift
- “Big Stretch”
- redshift parameter
- steady-state theory
- Sir Fred Hoyle
- Arno Penzias
- Robert Wilson
- cosmic microwave background (CMB)
- 2.7 K
- distance ladder
- standard ruler
- standard siren
- cosmological distance
- dark energy
- virtual particles
- vacuum energy
- vacuum pressure
- cosmological principle
- homogeneity
- isotropy
- Planck limits
- Planck time
- Planck length
- Planck temperature
- quantum gravity
- equilibrium temperature problem
- temperature variations problem
- flatness problem
- flat universe
- closed universe
- open universe
- four fundamental forces
- gravitational force
- strong nuclear force
- weak nuclear force
- electromagnetic force
- electroweak theory
- grand unified theories (GUTs)
- theory of everything (ToE)
- string theory
- graviton
- cosmic inflation
- quark
- gluon
- Big-Bang nucleosynthesis
- radiation-dominated
- CMB photons
- era of the first atoms
- decoupling
- surface of last scattering
- matter-dominated
- first stars
- reionization
- \(\Lambda\)-cold dark matter (\(\Lambda\)-CDM)
- dark-energy dominated
- harmonics
- particle horizon
- observable universe
- Hubble horizon
- multiverse
- many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics
- bubble universes
- brane theory
- Big Freeze
- Big Crunch
- phantom energy
- Big Rip
- vacuum decay
- false vacuum
- true vacuum