History of Relativistic Cosmology| History of Relativistic Cosmology |
In General
> s.a. history of cosmological models [earlier models];
history of relativistic physics; modern cosmology.
* XX century: The modern
theoretical understanding of the origin and evolution of the universe started
in 1917 with Einstein and de Sitter; The beginning of cosmology as an
observational science was Hubble's redshift-distance relationship and the
discovery of cosmological expansion; Precision cosmology is considered to
have started in 2003 with the availability of the first WMAP data; 2018,
IAU proposal about renaming Hubble's law.
@ General references: Merleau-Ponty 65;
North 65;
Durham & Purrington 83;
Kerszberg 89;
Hetherington AS(90);
Lightman & Brawer 90;
Gale & Urani AJP(93)jan;
Kragh 96;
Aczel 99;
Martinez in(01)ap/02;
Wudka 06;
Wright ap/06-proc;
Longair 06;
North 08;
López-Corredoira ASP-a0812,
SHPMP-a1311 [sociology];
Einasto 13 [dark matter and cosmic web];
Comins 14.
@ Expanding universe: Kragh a1301,
HSNS(14)
[history and meanings of the term "Big Bang"];
Trimble a1307-talk;
Belenkiy TPT(05)-a1403;
MacCallum CQG(15)-a1504;
Kragh a1809
[Hubble Law or Hubble-Lemaître Law?];
Elizalde a1810
[argument for Hubble-Lemaître-Slipher law].
@ In specific countries: Bertolami gq/06 [Portugal, the first 20 years];
Kragh a1204
[cosmology and political ideology in the Soviet Union, 1947-1963].
@ Other XX century: Peebles et al ed-09
[r PT(10)feb];
Wesson 10;
Benedetto IJTP(11) [dark sector and alternative theories];
Peruzzi & Realdi AHES(11)-a1704 [early ideas for measuring the cosmic curvature radius];
Lima & Santos RBEF-a1709 [1917-1929];
de Swart a1903-in
[principles, beliefs and observations, 1950s-1970s];
Dubois & Füzfa GRG(19)-a1904 [stationary cosmologies in the first half of the XX century].
@ Cosmic microwave background: Peebles EPJH(14)-a1310 [1948 papers];
Alpher AsJP-a1411 [prediction];
Durrer CQG(15)-a1506 [discovery and significance];
Ćirković & Perović SHPMP-a1705 [unorthodox interpretations];
Grant PT(18)aug [Herbert Gush].
@ Big Bang theory: Alpher & Herman PT(88)aug;
Barrow & Silk 94; Alpher & Herman 01;
Woolfson 13; Kragh AIP-a1410 [from the 1930s expanding universe to the 1960s emergence of the standard big-bang model];
Elizalde a1801 [and types of singularities].
@ Inflation:
Kazanas a0803-proc [personal reminiscences].
@ Bouncing and cyclic models:
Kragh a1308 [early history];
Neves CN(13)-a1506 [and Nietzsche's eternal recurrence].
@ Related topics: Kragh SHPMP(06) [varying speed of light theories];
Weinstein a1310
[George Gamow, Albert Einstein, and the cosmological constant];
O'Raifeartaigh & McCann EPJH(14)-a1312 [Einstein's 1931 model and views];
> s.a. cosmological constant;
cosmological expansion [including original papers].
> Online resources:
see AIP Center for History of Physics.
Personal Contributions
@ Lemaître: Luminet a0704-proc [1917–2006, Lemaître];
Way & Nussbaumer PT(11)aug-a1104;
van den Bergh JRASC-a1106,
Block a1106-proc;
Shaviv a1107 [Lemaître's article and Hubble's discovery];
Nussbaumer & Bieri a1107;
van den Bergh a1108/JRASC [myth of Hubble's discovery];
Steer JRASC-a1212
[Lemaître's predicted maximal size of the universe];
Luminet GRG(13)-a1305,
a1503-proc [editorial note to Lemaître paper];
O'Raifeartaigh a1907-conf;
O'Raifeartaigh & O'Keefe a1909 [Hubble's law vs Hubble-Lemaître law];
Mitton a2007 [biographical review].
@ Friedmann: Belenkiy PT(12)oct,
ASP-a1302;
Kragh PT(13)jun.
@ Hubble: Smith PT(90)apr;
van den Bergh a1110/JRASC [and Shapley];
Steer a1212 [Lundmark, Lemaître and Hubble];
Way ASP-a1301.
@ Slipher: Thompson a1108;
O'Raifeartaigh ASP-a1212;
Peacock ASP-a1301;
Thompson ASP-a1301;
Freeman ASP-a1301;
Nussbaumer ASP-a1303;
O'Raifeartaigh ASO-a1404.
@ Einstein: Realdi & Peruzzi GRG(09) [1917, and de Sitter];
Nussbaumer EPJH(14)-a1311 [conversion to an expanding universe];
O'Raifeartaigh et al EPJH(14)-a1402,
Nussbaumer a1402-in [unpublished 1931 steady-state model];
Janzen a1402/EPJH;
O'Raifeartaigh et al EPJH(15)-a1503 [Einstein's 1933 review paper];
O'Raifeartaigh a1504-in [steady-state model and philosophy of cosmology];
Weinstein a1512
[1932 efforts of persuasion to renounce the cosmological constant];
O'Raifeartaigh PT(17)feb,
et al EPJH-a1701,
a1906-in [1917 model].
@ Other personal contributions: Unzicker AdP(09)-a0708 [ideas of Dirac, Sciama, and Dicke];
Tammann & Reindl ASS(12)-a1111-proc [Allan Sandage's work];
Harvey a1211
[Einstein and Schrödinger, and the first description of dark energy];
DeVorkin ASP-a1302 [Henry Norris Russell's reactions];
Weinstein a1309 [Einstein, 1917-1923].
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