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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. On Science and Reality
1.1. Thinking a Century Ago
1.2. On Social, Empirical, and Circular Constructions
1.3. Philosophies of Science
1.4. The Working Assumptions of Physics
Chapter 2. The Social Nature of Physics
2.1. Multiples
2.2. Constructions
2.3. The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
Chapter 3. The General Theory of Relativity
3.1. The Discovery
3.2. The Social Construction
3.3. The Early Tests
3.3.1. The Orbit of Mercury
3.3.2. Gravitational Redshift
3.3.3. Gravitational Deflection of Light
3.4. The Empirical Establishment
3.5. The Lessons
Chapter 4. Einstein’s Cosmological Principle
4.1. Einstein’s Homogeneous Static Universe
4.2. Evidence of Homogeneity
4.3. The Fractal Universe
4.4. Lessons
Chapter 5. The Hot Big Bang
5.1. Gamow’s Hot Big Bang Cosmology
5.2. The Steady-State Cosmology
5.3. Fossils from the Big Bang: Helium
5.4. Fossils from the Big Bang: Radiation
5.4.1. Unexpected Excitation of Interstellar Cyanogen
5.4.2. Dicke’s Quest
5.4.3. Unexpected Radiation in Bell Microwave Receivers
Chapter 6. The ΛCDM Theory
6.1. Initial Conditions
6.2. The Curvature of Space Sections
6.3. The Cosmological Constant
6.4. Inflation and Coincidences
6.5. Baryonic and Subluminal Matter
6.6. Dark Matter
6.7. The CDM Theory
6.8. The ΛCDM Theory
6.9. Confusion
6.10. Resolution
6.10.1. The Redshift-Magnitude Relation
6.10.2. Patterns in Distributions of Matter and Radiation
6.10.3. Quantitative Tests
Chapter 7. Lessons from a Scientific Advance
7.1. Discovery of the ΛCDM Theory Seems Inevitable
7.2. Constructions and the Science Wars
7.3. Multiples in the Discovery of ΛCDM
7.4. Questions
7.5. The Future
7.6. On Reality
References
Index
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