The evolution of the Universe from the Big Bang to the far future and the experimental evidence supporting it. The course will cover:
1) Introduction and the Cast of Characters
2) the Cosmic Microwave background
3) Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
4) the first seconds before Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
5) The end of the dark ages and cosmic dawn; the first stars and first galaxies
6) the synthesis of the chemical elements
7) dark matter
8) dark energy and the far future
9) the Standard Model of Cosmology
10) black holes and relationships of quantum mechanics to general relativity. The course will deal with the phenomena without advanced mathematics. The course has been evolved to cover implications of JWST data on Hubble tension, structure formation, and SMBH evolution, experiments to identify dark matter, the multiverse; time, space and entropy. Added a section on proposed CPT symmetric cosmology which makes a definite proposal for dark matter.
Note: There will be no class on 23 Oct; last class on 18 Dec.